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the Council are thus enabled to inform the members, in each 
successive ' Journal,' as to the latest state of the Society's 
accounts. 
The Worcester Meeting, notwithstanding the unfavourable 
weather on some days of the Show, fully satisfied the expecta- 
tions of the Council. The authorities of the city and the Local 
Committee contributed greatly to promote the objects of the 
Society on the occasion, and received at the time the public 
thanks of the members at the General Meeting held in the 
Town Hall. 
The Balance-sheet of the Meeting, which is now laid before 
the members and will be published in the February ' Journal,' 
shows that the system of distributing the forage by means of 
tickets furnished to exhibitors has proved satisfactory, and has 
tended to reduce this item of expense in the Live Stock 
Department. 
The quadrennial system for the trial of implements, which 
commenced at Warwick, has terminated this year at Worcester, 
and, at the request of the Council, the Implement Committee 
have given the subject their careful consideration. The Council 
have adopted the recommendation of the Committee, that the 
trials should, as formerly, be triennial ; such special prizes and 
medals for miscellaneous improvements being also offered each 
year as the Council may determine. The following is the 
schedule of arrangement : — 
Special Prize foe Steam -Cultivation. 
1864. — I. Implements and Machinery for the Drainage, Tillage, 
and Cultivation of Land.— Tile and brick machines, draining 
implements, grubbers, ploughs, cultivators, clod-crushers, rollers, 
harrows. 
1865. — II. Implements and Machinery for the Cultivation and 
Harvesting of Crops. — Drills and distributors, horse-hoes, mowing- 
machines, reaping-machines, haymaking-machines, horse-rakes, carts 
and waggons. 
1866. — III. — Implements and Machinery for the Preparation of 
Crops for Market and for Feeding Stock. — Steam-engines, 
thrashing-machines, dressing-machines, mills and crushers, chaff- 
cutters, cake-breakers, root-cutters and pulpers, dairy implements. 
In order to consider the most effectual means of obviating the 
practice of unfairly clipping sheep for exhibition at the Society's 
country meetings, the Council appointed a Committee to take 
