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Report of the Council. 
honoured the Exhibition with their presence on two occasions. 
The expectations of the Council as to the magnitude of the 
Meeting were even surj)assed by the result. The entries of 
Implements largely exceeded those at any previous meeting of 
the Society, and the Exhibition of Stock was on a still more 
extended scale. The crowd of members and visitors more than 
doubled in number those who were admitted to the Show-Yard at 
Leicester, and the amount received for admission was propor- 
tionately large. The interest created by the magnificent exhi- 
bition of Live Stock and Implements may be estimated by 
the fact that more than 1000/. was realized by the sale of 
Catalogues. 
The Local Committee carried out the various arrangements 
which had been entrusted to them with remarkable zeal and 
liberality ; and their Secretary (Mr. Whitworth), in particular, 
was untiring in his exertions to promote the success of the 
Meeting. Considering that during the six days of the show it 
was visited by more than two hundred thousand people, the 
Council believe that no slight praise is due to the arrangements 
by which so large a number of persons could obtain excellent 
refreshments without inconvenience, and at a moderate price — 
the more so as these arrangements were made by Mr. Whitworth 
with the advantage of a considerable profit to the Society. Mr. 
Whitworth's indefatigable efforts on behalf of the Society induced 
the Council to request his acceptance of the sum of one hundred 
and fifty guineas as an acknowledgment of his services. 
The great agricultural feature of the Meeting was, no doubt, 
the careful and prolonged trials of reaping and mowing machines ; 
and whether tested by the interest exhibited in them each day 
by crowds of intelligent spectators, or by the great increase in 
the extent to which reapers were reported to have been used 
during the following harvest, there can remain no question that 
the Society's trials of implements at Manchester have already 
yielded good results. 
On the two Sundays during which the Stock was in the yard, 
Divine Service was performed by the Vicar of Stretford, before 
large and attentive congregations, chiefly composed of the ser- 
vants in attendance on the animals. 
The Council have fixed the commencement of the Oxford 
Meeting for Monday, the 18th of July. They have decided that 
