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Report to the General Meeting. 
Meeting. The funded property of the Society remains the 
same as at the end of last year, namely 12,430/. 7s. New Three 
per Cents. The balance of the current account in the hands of 
the Society's bankers on the 1st instant was 3398/. 14s. 9(7. and 
2000/. remained on deposit. These sums are destined to defray 
part of the expenses of the forthcoming Derby Meeting. 
The Derby Meeting will commence on Wednesday, July 
13th, and will close on Monday July 18th, — the Council having 
reverted to the practice which has proved so successful on 
former occasions, when the Country Meeting has been held in 
large industrial centres, of making Saturday and Monday the 
days of cheap admission. 
The Derby Local Committee have added to the Society's 
Prize-list offers of numerous Prizes for horses eligible for entry 
in the English Cart-horse Society's Stud-book, as well as Prizes 
for Hackneys and Hunters, Dairy Cattle, Cheese, and Butter. 
The entries having been closed, the Council are able to state 
generally that there is every prospect of the Derby Show being 
well worthy of the central locality in which it will be held, both 
as regards the number and the variety of the exhibits. 
The success which attended the exhibition of Dairy Ma- 
chinery at work at Kilburn and Carlisle, has induced the 
Council to make special arrangements for a Working Dairy in 
the Derby Showyard, with a view to render it, if possible, 
more instructive than heretofore, without being less attractive. 
The district assigned for the Country Meeting of 1882, com- 
prises the counties of Berks, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Hants, 
Kent, Somerset, Sussex, Surrey, and Wilts ; and the Council 
have accepted a very cordial invitation which they received 
from the Mayor and Corporation of Reading to hold the Show 
next year in that locality. The site offered has the advantages 
of being at a considerable elevation, having a porous subsoil, 
and being in immediate contiguity to one of the main lines of 
railway. 
tn accordance with the usual rotation of districts, the Country 
Meeting for 1883 will be held in the district which consists of 
the county of York. 
The diseases of animals of the farm have occupied a large 
share of the attention of the Council during the past five 
months, more especially the recent severe outbreak of foot-and- 
