498 Suggestions for Stock-feedi'ag ill the Winter of 1893-94. 
patible with safety. I know some farmers will say, “ I don’t, 
want to hurry my sheep out, or get them over fat, because I want 
to shear them and sell them out of the wool ; ” and so they keep 
them about stationary for three months. I think it would be 
more economical to feed out the first lot quickly, and buy others 
to take their places. More cake and corn would be consumed, 
and land would be improved to an extent only understood by 
those who have adopted the plan. No doubt, this may appear 
opposed to the policy I pursue in keeping 250 tegs “round.” 
I have, however, special reasons for doing this in the case of 
my cross-breds (Radnor and Shropshire), but it is beyond the 
scope of this paper to enter into detail on this point. 
R. Stratton. 
THE CHESTER MEETING, 1893 . 
Fifty-four Country Meetings have now been held by the Royal 
Agricultural Society, but only once before the present year has 
the annual gathering taken place in Cheshire. During the long 
period 1839-1893, however, as many as six Country Meetings 
have been held within a radius of less than fifty miles from the 
historic city of Chester. These were at Liverpool iu 1841, 
when Mr. Philip Pusey was President; at Shrewsbury in 1845, 
when the Duke of Richmond was President : at Manchester in 
1869, on which occasion His Royal Highness the Prince of 
Wales was for the first time President of the Society ; at Liver- 
pool again in 1877, under the presidency of Lord Skelmersdale 
(now the Earl of Lathom) ; at Shrewsbury a second time, in 
1884, when Sir Brandreth Gibbs was President ; and at Preston 
in 1885, under the presidency of Sir Massey Lopes, Bart., M.P. 
Eight years subsequent to the last-named Meeting the Society 
has for the second time pitched its camp at Chester ; but an 
interval of thirty-five years has separated the two Chester 
Meetings, a few details concerning which are presented in the 
subjoined table : — 
Year 
1858 
1893 
Place of Meeting 
President 
Entries 
of live 
stock 
Number 
of imple- 
ments 
entered 
N 1 mber of 
persons 
admitted 
The Rcodee, Chester 
Hoole Road, Chester 
Earl Berners 
The Duke of 
Westminster, K.G. 
1,026 
2,061 
3,648 
6,527 
"62,539 
116,908 
