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land for the trial of Implements under the cultivation desired by 
the Stewards ; and are actively engaged in carrying out the 
various details connected with other departments of the trial. 
The mode ado})ted last year for the appointment of Judges for 
the Show was found so satisfactory to all parties, that the Council 
have decided again to act upon it. They have accordingly re- 
quested the members of the Society at large to send to the 
Secretary, or deliver personally to the President, at the General 
May Meeting, their nomination of persons to act as Judges in 
any or all of the several departments of the Show ; and have 
appointed two Committees, — one for Judges of Stock, and the 
other for Judges of Implements, — to select from these nomina- 
tions, and to report to the Council for confirmation, the names of 
those gentlemen who, in their opinion, are best qualified to 
perform those important duties. 
The great amount of actual expenses, independently of personal 
charges and loss of time, incurred by the exhibitors at the 
Country Meetings of the Society, has frequently engaged the 
attention of the Council. Last year these expenses were dimi- 
nished by the liberality of the London and Birmingham, and the 
Grand Junction Railway Companies, who carried implements 
and stock to and from the Society's Country Meeting, free of any 
charge whatever ; and the Council have this year the gratifying 
duty of announcing to the members of the Society, not only a 
renewal on the part of those two companies of the same most 
liberal concession, but a free grant of similar privileges in favour 
of the Society's exhibitors, made by the Great Western, the 
South- Eastern, and the Newcastle, Shields, and Tynemouth 
Railway Companies. Other companies, though not granting so 
entire a freedom of gratuitous transit along their respective lines 
of railway, have made certain concessions, under special condi- 
tions, which the Council have directed to be communicated to 
the several exhibitors for their information ; namely, the South- 
western Railway Company consent to convey stock or implements 
for the Society's show at one-half the usual charges each or either 
