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Report to the General Meeting, 
on the last day of the Show. The financial result of the Meeting is 
a net profit of 2,400?., which is eminently satisfactory in view of the 
fact that the Society offered some 800?. more in prizes at Chester 
than at Warwick in the previous year, and that the entries were 
considerably larger, thus involving increased expenses for showyard 
works, administration, judges, forage, <fcc. 
9 . From the years 1870 to 1892 Farm Prize Competitions were 
annually held within the district of the Country Meeting, and the 
Reports upon the several competitions printed in the Journal form 
a valuable collection of information respecting the distinctive features 
of English agriculture. As the period of twenty-two years, over 
which these competitions extended, had brought practically the 
whole of the country under review, it was considered that the system 
of competitions might be usefully succeeded by the inspection of 
selected farms in the district of the Meeting, each inspection to be 
undertaken by a special Commissioner, whose Report should be 
published in the J ournal. The Council, accordingly, entrusted the 
first inspection of the kind to one of their own body, Mr. J. Bowen- 
Jones, and the Society is much indebted to him for a most minute 
and painstaking investigation of the farming of Cheshire and North 
Wales, and for a very able Report thereon in the last number of the 
Journal. 
10 . The Council have decided that the Cambridge Meeting shall 
open on Monday, June 25, 1894, and close on the following Friday 
evening. The Implement Yard and the Dairy will be open to 
members of the Society and the public on the previous Saturday, 
June 23. The last day for making entries in the Implement 
Department will be Saturday, March 31 ; but post-entries of agri- 
cultural implements only will be received up to Saturday, April 7. 
For Stock, Poultry, and Produce the entries will close on Tuesday, 
May 1, with post-entries at double fees up to Saturday, May 12. 
The entries, however, for Preserved Butter to be delivered on 
February 1, 1894, close on Monday, January 1, 1894. 
11 . It has been found necessary to revise the Entry-fees for stock 
and produce at the Society’s Country Meetings, and the following, 
therefore, will be the fees payable for the several descriptions of ex- 
hibits by members of the Royal Agricultural Society and by non- 
members, respectively, at the Cambridge Meeting of 1894 : — 
By 
Members. 
By 
Non-Members. 
Houses, Cattle, Sheep, or Pigs— 
For the first Entry in any one Class, received' 
on or before the 1st May, 1894. 
\ V- 
£1 
For a second Entry in the same Class, received ' 
[• 10/- 
£2 
on or before the 1st May, 1894. 
For any Post Entry 
15/- 
£3 
Poultry (except Table Poultry) and Produce — 
For each Entry received on or before the 1st ) 
May, 1894. J 
> 2/0 
5/- 
For any Post Entry of Poultry or Produce 
5/- 
10/- 
[Table Poultry will be admitted at Is. per entry. Post Entry, 2s.] 
