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they believe, successful. More recently they have endeavoured 
by direct action to encourage the education of agriculturists ; and 
though this question has provoked much difference of opinion 
both in the Council and amongst other members of the Society, 
it is one which, having been attempted, the Council would regret 
hastily to abandon. The Council are anxious in all these matters 
to progress, and to carry out the objects for which the Society 
was incorporated with vigour and completeness ; but to do this 
requires the active sympathy and aid of the Landowners and 
Tenant Farmers of the country, which can only be obtained 
by an addition to the number of subscribing members of the 
Society. 
The Council have elected Mr. William John Edmonds, of 
Southrop, Lechlade, Gloucestershire, to be a Member of Council 
in the room of Mr. Lawrence, resigned ; and Mr. Robert Charles 
Ransome, of Bolton Hill, Ipswich, in the room of Mr. Hudson, 
resigned. 
The half-yearly statement of accounts to the 31st December, 
1867, has been examined and approved by the auditors and 
accountants of the Society, and, together with a balance-sheet 
for the whole year, 1867, and a statement of the Country Meeting 
account for Bury St. Edmund's, has been published in the last 
number of the 'Journal.' The funded capital stands at 16,027/. 
19s. Id. in the New Three per Cents., the sum of 2000Z. remains 
on deposit with the Society's bankers, and the cash balance in 
their hands on the 1st instant was 3243/. lis. 
The Leicester Meeting to be held from the 16th to the 22nd 
July promises to exceed that of Bury St. Edmund's in the 
Implement Department. The entries of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, 
Pigs, Cheese, Butter, and Wool, will remain open as usual till 
the 1st of June. In order to enable a larger number of the 
Members to attend the General Meeting of the Society held 
annually during the Country Meeting, the Council has deter- 
mined that it be held on the Saturday in the week of the Show. 
After careful consideration the Council have resolved — 
(1.) That in order to reduce the number of implements to be 
tried at each Show so as to afford time for thorough testing, it is 
desirable that a further subdivision in the classes should be 
made ; and have adopted the following classification of Imple- 
ments for trial : — 
