Report to the General Meeting. 
accommodation in the power of the authorities and inhabitants of 
Southampton to grant, would be readily arranged on their part to 
meet the wishes of the Society. 
The Council have appointed Mr. Miles, M.P., and Mr. Shelley, 
to be the Stewards of the Implement Department, with full power 
to take every measure to render the exhibition anid trial of imple- 
ments in every respect satisfactory at the Southampton Meeting. 
The Council have appointed Mr. Parkes to be the Consulting 
Engineer of the Society; to be remunerated, when employed in 
that capacity, either by the Council from the funds of the Society, 
or by individual members at the usual rate of professional charge. 
Mr. Parkes, as a civil engineer, has long maintained a high stand- 
ing in his profession, and as a judge of implements, and author of 
the valuable reports on the exhibition and trial of the implements 
at the Liverpool and Bristol Meetings, is well known to the mem- 
bers of the Society at large. In addition to Mr. Parkes as the 
Consulting Engineer of the Society, the Council have decided that 
a greater number of j udges of implements, including practical 
farmers, shall be appointed : also, that the exhibition of imple- 
ments on the Tuesday and Wednesday previously to the principal 
day of the show, shall be open at 2s. on each of those two days, 
instead of at 5s. as heretofore. They have limited the accommo- 
dation in the pavilion to the number of 1400 persons ; and decided 
that tickets for the pavilion dinner shall be reserved for members 
until twelve o'clock of the day of the dinner, and afterwards sold 
to the public. They have fixed the time of the meeting as the 
fourth week of July, Thursday, the 25th, being the principal day 
of the show. The Council have settled all the prizes for the 
Southampton Meeting, including among those for stock special 
local prizes for cattle of the Channel Islands' breed, and for short- 
wooUed sheep not qualified to compete as Southdowns : all certi- 
ficates for implements being required to be sent to the Secretary 
on or before the 1st of May, and all others on or before the 1st of 
June ; and the Council have decided that, after those dates re- 
spectively, no certificate shall be received under any pretence 
whatever. 
