iv Report to the General Meeting. 
been exhibited at the recent Derby Meeting, in July last, no less 
than 878 head of stock and 700 distinct implements. While, 
however, the excellence of the stock, and the number, variety, and 
importance of the agricultural implements exhibited on that occa- 
sion, formed a most gratifying proof of the success resulting from 
the Country Meetings of the Society, the corresponding increase 
in the details of the arrangements, and the general expenses attend- 
ing the show, are circumstances which have required and received 
the serious consideration of the Council. 
The Society have already voted their best thanks to the Mayor 
and corporation of Derby for the aid they so efficiently rendered 
to the Meeting in the preservation of the peace and good order of 
the town ; to Mr. Colvile, M.P., and the Local Committee, for their 
zealous co-operation in carrying out the details of the business 
immediately connected with the local arrangements ; and to the 
various Railway Companies for the accommodation of special trains, 
and the remission of one-half the usual charges in favour of agri- 
cultural implements conveyed along their respective lines, which 
they granted to the members and the public. The Council are 
also sensible of the attention shown to the Society by the Magis- 
trates, in the grant of the use of the County Hall for the purpose of 
the Council dinner ; by the various owners and occupiers who 
placed their land at the disposal of the Society ; and by Mr. Brom- 
ley, the Secretary of the South Derbyshire Agricultural Society, 
in the devotion of his time and exertions in fulfilling the duties of 
Secretary to the Local Committee. 
The Council and Members of the Society, as well as thQ im- 
plement-makers and public at large, experienced considerable 
disappointment at the Derby Meeting, that they were deprived of 
the opportunity of witnessing a trial of implements on lighter soil 
than that at Rough Heanor, on which the heavy-land implements 
were worked, and for the use of which the Society were indebted 
to the liberality of Mr. Chandos Pole, the proprietor. The Coun- 
cil have taken every measure which they think best adapted to 
prevent the recurrence of a similar disappointment ; and in the 
meantime, at tlie suggestion of the Judges of Implements, they 
