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awarded at Oxford contains classes for fixed sl.eam-enofines. 
horse-gears, mills, crushers, chaff-cutters, oilcake-breakers, turnip- 
cutters, steaming-apparatus, dairy implements, bone-mills, guano- 
breakers, coprolite-mills, flax-breaking machines, tile-machinery, 
and draining tools. 
The continually increasing number of implements exhibited at 
the country meetings of the Society has compelled the Council 
to consider by what method a sufficient number of Judges in 
each department could be appointed beforehand, and also by 
what means a large portion of the time of the Judges, hitherto 
devoted to a preliminary examination, and a selection of imple- 
ments for trial, could be advantageously economised. The 
Council have, therefore, resolved that every implement intended 
by the exhibitor for competition shall be entered in its respective 
Section and Class, for Trial, at the time when the specification 
is sent in to the Secretary ; but notwithstanding such entry, the 
discretion of trial Avill rest with the Judges; also, that no 
exhibitor may enter more than one implement of the same con- 
struction for competition in any one class. Further, in order 
to protect the interests of purchasers, it has been resolved, that 
although certain implements, belonging to the classes for which 
prizes are ofTered, are not entered for trial, the Stewards may, 
on the recommendation of the Judges, order any of them to be 
tried and their capabilities made public. 
The attention of the Council having been drawn to the in- 
creasing adulteration of manures and feeding cakes, especially 
guano, nitrate of soda, ground bones, and linseed cakes, Dr. 
Voelcker has been requested to submit to the Monthly Council in 
March, June, and December, a report of the various samples 
forwarded to him by members of the Society, so that such report, 
together with the names of the dealers who supplied the sub- 
stances analyzed, shall, if the Council think fit, be published 
in the Agricultural Journals. 
The Society's educational examinations in April last were 
conducted on the same plan as those of the previous year, and 
the results were so satisfactory that the Council have renewed 
the grant (200/.) for the year 1870, with this alteration, however, 
viz : — that whereas, hitherto, it has been considered advisable 
not to fix any limit to the ages of candidates, in order that all 
