Report to the General Meeting. v 
have requested Mr. Jaques, of Easby Abbey, near Richmond in 
Yorkshire, to subject Lord Ducie's Uley cultivator and Messrs. 
Ransome's improved Biddell scarifier, with the consent of the 
respective makers, to the comparative trial of a whole season's 
work on soils of various texture. The Duke of Richmond, the 
Hon. Captain Spencer, and Mr. Jaques, have undertaken to test 
the respective merits of the dynamometers of Messrs. Cottam 
and H alien, and Mr. Clyburn, when applied to the trial of the 
draught of agricultural implements ; and Mr. Graburn has ex- 
pressed his willingness to ascertain the effects of Messrs. Ran- 
some's and Mr. Alexander Dean's portable metallic and stone 
corn-mills by constant use in his own household. 
A Deputation of the Society was appointed to visit Southampton 
immediately at the close of the Derby Meeting, for the purpose of 
inspecting the various sites for the show-yard, pavilion, and Coun- 
cil-dinner ; and being received by the mayor and corporation, they 
were conducted to the several localities considered to be most 
suitable for those objects. After receiving their report, the Coun- 
cil decided to select as the site of the show-yard a portion of 
Southampton Common, originally offered to the Society by the 
mayor and corporation, and directed a communication of that de- 
cision to be made to the mayor, who has since that time transmitted 
to the Council the resolutions of a public meeting of the rate- 
payers and commoners of the town, unanimously expressing their 
most cheerful and cordial co-operation with the corporation in 
sanctioning the application of any portion of the common that 
may be required for the purposes of the Society. Mr. Miles, 
M.P„ Mr. Shelley, and Mr. Gibbs, were deputed accordingly to 
inspect the localities most suitable for the show-yard and pavilion ; 
and those gentlemen, having made their report to the Council on 
those points, it was found that the site most advantageously situated 
for the show-yard would comprise a considerable portion of the 
race-course; and the president having therefore communicated 
that circumstance to the mayor, he informed the president in reply, 
that the portion of the race-course thus included within the pro- 
posed area of the show-yard would be willingly ceded, and every 
