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They would be glad to know that the Society was in a much more satisfactory 
financial condition than it was at this time last year. At the last Council 
Meeting the Chairman of the Finance Committee told them that the Society 
had now a reserve fund amounting to nearly 17,000Z., but to make their 
position more secure they required more Members. He was sure that with the 
good Show they had had this year, and the fact that they were going to a 
place where they were likely to have another successful Show next year, 
Members had every inducement to get their friends to join the Society. Before 
calling upon the Secretary to read the Report of the Judges of Farms, he 
thought it right to say that prizes in two classes of the competitions amounting 
to 150f. had been provided by Sir Richard Cooper, and the prizes in the other 
two classes by the Belvoir, Blankney, Brocklesby, Burton, and Southwold 
Hunts. Sir Richard Cooper had also borne the entire cost of the judging of 
these competitions. There was ample evidence from the large number of farms 
entered that great interest was taken in these competitions, and it was a 
matter for congratulation that the generosity of a Member of Council had 
enabled the Society to revert to a practice, abandoned some years ago, of 
offering prizes for farms in the district in which the Show was held. 
Farm Prize Competitions. 
The Secketary then read out the awards of the Judges in the Farm Prize 
Competitions. \_Thc full awards ivill he found onjyp. 171 and 172.] 
The President said that, in alluding to the Farm Prizes, he had omitted 
to mention that all the secretarial work connected with the judging of the 
competitions had been carried out by Mr. Cyril Greenall, assisted by Mr. W. H. 
Hogg, the Manager of the Society’s Experimental Farm at Woburn. 
Thanks to Mayor and Corporation. 
Mr. Cornwallis moved : “ That the best thanks of the Society are due, 
and are hereby tendered, to the Mayor and Corporation of Lincoln for their 
cordial reception of the Society.” That was a business meeting, and he hoped 
his brevity would not be taken as indicating in any measure the debt which 
the Society owed to the Mayor and Corporation of Lincoln. Lincoln was a 
city which was not so large in population as many of those they had visited, 
and therefore the strain upon it was all the greater. The city had risen to the 
occasion in giving to the Society a reception worthy of the citj'and the Society. 
While it was over fifty years since they were in Lincoln before, they hoped it 
would be nothing like that period before they found themselves again in the 
city. They could not but remember that there was living to-day one who was 
Mayor on the previous occasion when the Society visjted Lincoln, and they 
hoped when they next came they might meet again in flourishing health both 
Mr. Tweed and the present Mayor. 
The lit. Hon. Ailwy'N Fellowes, in seconding the resolution, said that of all 
the different places the Society had visited during the last few years, they had 
never been treated better than by the Mayor and Corporation of Lincoln. The 
resolution was unanimously carried. 
Thanks to Local Committee. 
Sir Gilbert Greenall, in proposing a vote of thanks to the Lincoln 
Local Committee, said he did not think anybody had come into contact so 
much as himself with the gentlemen of the Committee, and he could give 
every one of them the best of characters. Nothing had been too much trouble, 
and anything that had been wanted had been done in a most cheerful manner. 
He felt he himself owed a deep debt of gratitude to them. They had given 
the very best support any Committee could have given. 
3Ir. Crutchley seconded the resolution, and it was passed unanimously. 
Suggestions of Members. 
In response to an inquiry from the Chair as to whether any Governor or 
Member had any remark to make or suggestion to offer for the consideration 
of the Council, 
