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Kopal 9[gncultui-al ^otittj) of O^nglauti. 
GENERAL MEETING, 
12, Hanover Square, Saturday, December 14, 1844. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
The Council have again the satisfaction of reporting to the 
Members, at their present General Meeting, the effective state of 
the Society in every branch of its operations ; and the continued 
influx of new Members from all parts of the kingdorn. The 
communications of practical results in farrryng, furnished by cor- 
respondents from the various localities of the country, and again 
disseminated among the Members by means of the Journal ; the 
increasing extent and importance of the Annual Country Meet- 
ings, at which not only the agricultural community have the im- 
mediate advantages of personal communication and direct inter- 
change of experience on farming topics of common interest to all, 
but where from year to year specimens of the most approved 
breeds of cattle are in succession exhibited to their notice, and 
the rapid improvements now made in the implements of husbandry 
submitted to their inspection, and their real value brought at once 
to the test of practical trial, — form the leading points on which the 
Council have to congratulate the Members, as evidences of the 
progressive advancement of the Society in the fulfilment of its 
v^arlous objects. 
In the application of science to the improvement of agriculture 
as an art, the Council are fully aware that results will only be 
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