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Report to the General Meeting. 
Local Committee, in aid of the extra and exceptional expense 
occasioned by the compensation awarded to the tenant of the 
Trial-ground. 
Mr. Charles Whitehead, of Barming House, Maidstone, Kent, 
has been elected a Member of Council to fill the vacancy caused 
by the election of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K.G., as 
a Vice-President. 
At the first Anniversary Meeting of the English Agricultural 
Society, held ihirty-one years ago, it was stated that the prizes 
offered for Stock to be shown at the then approaching Oxford 
Meeting would amount altogether to 740/., besides 50Z. for extra 
stock, implements, roots, and seeds, 50Z. for a draining plough, 
and two prizes of 50 sovereigns each for the best specimens of 
white and of red seed wheat. At the forthcoming Oxford 
Meeting, the prizes to be competed for amount to 3130Z. for Live 
Stock, and 395/. in addition to ten silver medals for Implements. 
A contrast of these figures will enable the Members to realise 
the growth of the Society's operations during the interval ; and 
to estimate the nature and extent of their influence on the progress 
of British Agriculture, 
The interest thus attaching to Oxford, where the first Country 
Meeting of the Society was held, promises to invest the forthcoming 
Show with unusual attractions. The Showyards for Implements 
and Live Stock comprise about 60 acres. The entries for Imple- 
ments, Machinery, &c., which closed on the 1st instant, prove that 
in this respect the display will be quite as extensive as the remark- 
able collection exhibited last year ; while it is confidently antici- 
pated that certain classes of LiVe Stock will be extremely well 
represented. Another element of instruction and interest will 
be found in the competition for the prizes offered last year by the 
then High Sheriff of Oxfordshire and the Society for the two best 
managed farms in the district round Oxford. A list of the com- 
petitors (21 in number) and the names of the Judges appointed 
by the Council have already been published ; and it is hoped 
that the awards of the prizes may be made known at the General 
Meeting of Members held in the Showyard. 
The Council resolved last year, that the Society's Country 
Meeting for 1871 should be held in the division comprising 
North Wales, and the counties of Cheshire, Shropshire, and 
Staffordshire. Invitations having been received from the autho- 
