194 Report to the Annual General Meeting, 
obtaining increased facilities for the Public and Officials travel- 
ling by rail to Agricultural Shows. The Deputation was 
received by the Grenei’al Managers of the various Railway 
Companies at the Clearing House on May 7, 1907. The requests 
of the Conference having been submitted by the President, 
the Earl of Yarborough, the Chairman of the Meeting promised 
the careful consideration of the Companies to the requests 
which had been submitted to them. A letter was, however, 
subsequently received from the Secretary of the Railway 
Clearing House, in which it was stated “ that, with every desire 
“ to meet the Agricultural and Breed Societies as far as possible, 
“ the Companies are unable at the present time, having regard 
“ to the constantly increasing expenses of railway working, to 
“ grant any further concessions such as those indicated by the 
“ deputation.” 
10. The Council have much pleasure in announcing that 
Volume 68 of the Journal will be produced under the Editor- 
ship of Major P. G. Craigie, whose assistance they have been 
so fortunate as to secure. 
11. Arrangements having been made for the reception and 
accommodation of the Society's Library in the New Council 
Room, the Books have recently been placed in the shelves 
prepared for them, and a new Catalogue is in course of 
preparation. 
12. The Society's Sixty-Eighth Annual Show, under the 
Presidency of the Earl of Yarborough, was held on the 
Carholme at Lincoln, from Tuesday, June 25, to Saturday, 
June 29. The Farm Prize Competitions which, through the 
generosity of Sir Richard Cooper and the members of the 
Belvoir, Blankney, Brocklesby, Burton, and Southwold Hunts, 
were revived this year, excited considerable interest in the 
County. Prizes amounting in all to 300Z. were offered in four 
Classes, for which no less than 111 diffei'ent Farms were 
entered. In addition to providing half the prize money (150Z.) 
Sir Richard Cooper was also good enough to defray the expenses 
connected with the j lodging of all the Farms in both the Open 
and the Hunt Classes. 
13. Fortunately, the Show was favoured with fine weather, 
and the number of visitors was very large, those passing through 
the turnstiles reaching a total of 133,006). This is the largest 
number recorded since the Cardiff Meeting in 1901, when the 
attendance was 167,423. 
14. The total amount of Prizes offered was 8,516Z., of 
which sum 1,000Z. was contributed by the Lincoln Local 
Committee, 139/. by the Lincolnshire Agricultural Society, 
2,607/. by the various Breed Societies, 770/. from other sources, 
the remaining 4,000/. being contributed by the Society. The 
