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Report to the General Meeting, 
year, a Silver Cup, value lOOZ., having been offered by the Pre- 
sident of the Society (Sir Watkin W. Wynn, Bart., M.P.), and a 
second prize of 50/. by the Council. These prizes will be 
awarded to the two best managed farms in South Wales and 
Monmouthshire which shall conform to the following condi- 
tions : — 
1. That they are not less than 100 acres in extent ; 2. That not less than 
one-fourth of the land (not including sheepwalk) is under tillage; 3. That 
they are held (a) by a tenant-farmer paj'ing a hond-fide rent for not less 
than three-fourths of the land in his occupation, or (&) by a landowner 
occupying his own fanii, the total extent of whose property in agricultural 
land (exclusive of sheepwalk) does not exceed 200 acres, and whose sole 
business is farming. 
The Implement Prize-sheet for the ensuing Country Meeting 
to be held at Cardiff has received the careful attention of the 
Council ; and Prizes have been offered for Portable Steam-engines, 
Threshing Machines, Straw and Hay Elevators, Corn Screens, 
Corn Dressing Machines, and Seed Drawers. The regulations 
of the trials and the instructions to the Judges have been revised, 
especially in reference to the points representing perfection in 
Threshing Machines ; and further restrictions have been imposed 
on exhibitors with a view of keeping the exhibition of imple- 
ments within moderate limits. 
The regulations affecting the awards of Medals to Miscellaneous 
Articles have also been once more under the consideration of the 
Council, and such modifications of them have been introduced 
into the Cardiff Prize-sheet as will ensure that the Medals are 
awarded either to implements belonging to the classes to be tried 
at that meeting, or to those which have an entirely novel con- 
struction and which are not included in the Society's classification. 
The Council have renewed the Education Grant for the year 
1872, on the same conditions as were attached to the examina- 
tions this year, feeling that more time must elapse before the 
advantages arising from success at these examinations can be 
generally appreciated. 
Since the commencement of the publication of the Quarterly 
Reports of the Consulting Chemist, the number of analyses made 
by Professor Voelcker have increased during 1871 by 150 in 
excess of those made in 1870, and 265 over those of 1869 ; and 
the Council are satisfied that the publication of these quarterly 
reports has caused agriculturists more to appreciate the value ol 
