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Report to the General Meeting. 
Hon. Wilbraham Egerton, M.P., of Rostherne Manor, Knutsford, 
and Mr. James Rawlence, of Bulbridge, Wilton, Salisbury. 
The half-yearly statement of accounts to the 30th June, 1870, 
has been examined and approved by the Society's auditors and 
accountants, and has been published for the information of the 
members in the last number of the Journal. The permanent 
funded capital of the Society remains the same as at the last 
half-yearly meeting, namely 20,000/. New Three per Cents., but 
the Reserve Show-fund has been reduced by the sum of 500Z„ 
and therefore now stands at 4112Z. 7s. 8c?. 
The financial results of the Country Meetings at Oxford and 
Wolverhampton having been a loss to the Society of about 
4000/., owing chiefly to the extensive and costly nature of the 
trials of Implements, the Council have appointed a Special 
Committee to consider the whole question of the receipts and 
expenditure of the Society, and the possibility of securing equal 
results at less cost. 
The extensive nature of these trials also presses with great 
severity on the Local Committees in years when land has specially 
to be hired for the purpose. The Council have therefore resolved 
that when the trials of Implements at the Country Meetings are 
not held in the Show-yard, one-half of the expense of providing 
trial-fields shall in future years be borne by the Society ; but to 
enable the Council to know the extent of its engagements it has 
been stipulated that the competing localities shall state the 
maximum cost of the land required for the Trial of Implements, 
the acreage wanted being furnished by the Society. 
The Wolverhampton Meeting was distinguished from previous 
exhibitions of the Society by the extensive trials of Steam- 
cultivating Machinery and Traction-engines, full reports on 
which have been furnished to the Members in the last number 
of the Journal. Notwithstanding a long continuance of un- 
favourable weather, the Council are able to congratulate the 
Society on the practical results of these trials. They have 
pointed out to the agricultural communities the best combina- 
tions of machinery for the cultivation of the land by Steam- 
power, not only by the medium of the most powerful sets of 
tackle ; but also by means of less expensive machinery within 
the reach of individual farmers in districts where rto system of 
hiring is in force. The competition for Lord Vernon's Prize Cup, 
