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been liberated during the year ; but the different 
varieties at the Royal Park have increased in numbers, 
and are now available for distribution as suitable 
opportunities occur. 
The Council are gratified at being able to inform the 
subscribers that the Society's flock of Angora goats, at 
Mr. Samuel Wilson s station, Longerenong, are thriving 
remarkably well. Mr. Wilson finds it expedient to 
shear the goats twice a year ; the last clip brought 
3s. 6d. per lb. in London. At the Exhibition just 
closed the Society was awarded a silver medal in 
recognition of its efforts in introducing the Angora 
goat. 
The ostriches on the Wimmera are also thriving, but 
have not increased so quickly as it was hoped they 
would. The flock now numbers 20 birds. 
Some valuable and interesting information on 
Ostrich farming, and on the Angora Goat, will be 
published in the next volume of the Society's 
proceedings. 
The Council have for years past given considerable 
..attention to Sericulture, and have endeavoured to 
obtain from neighbouring Colonies and from Japan 
improved species of silkworms, and have also acquired all 
information to be derived from Sericulturists in Queens- 
land, Sydney and Adelaide. Their labours, however, have 
not hitherto met with the anticipated success, and they 
therefore notice with much satisfaction the efforts made 
by Mrs. Bladen Neill to establish sericulture in connec- 
tion with breeding grain or silkworm eggs for exporta- 
tion, which latter industry has proved in other countries 
to be of vast importance. " Silkworm eggs from J apan, 
to the amount of one hundred and thirty-five thousand 
