Country Meeting of 1895. 
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Country Meeting of 1895. 
The Secretary said that it was 
customary at the May meeting of the 
Council each year to declare the 
district in which it was proposed to 
hold the Society’s Country Meeting 
two years in advance, in order that 
the towns in that district might have 
ample opportunity for considering 
whether they desired to invite the 
Society to hold its Meeting in their 
midst. The counties comprised in 
the district selected were announced 
in the Report of the Council to the 
anniversary General Meeting. Last 
year the Council, on the recommenda- 
tion of a Special Committee presided 
over by Sir Jacob Wilson, agreed 
upon a new rotation of districts for 
nine years, certain of the very largest 
provincial towns being made extra- 
territorial, and coming into the rota- 
tion every third or fourth year. 1 This 
new rotation would commence next 
year (in 1894) with district A (the 
Eastern counties), for which Cam- 
bridge had already been selected ; for 
1895 Birmingham was named ; for 
1896, District B (Cumberland, Dur- 
ham, Northumberland, and West- 
moreland) ; for 1897, District C (the 
Midlands); for 1898, Liverpool or 
Manchester; for 1899, District I) 
(Southern England) ; and so on. The 
1 See Vol. Ill, part II, IS92, p. 363. 
question, therefore, now before the 
Council was whether they would 
decide to go to Birmingham in 1895, 
or, failing that place, would pass on 
to the Northern counties comprised in 
District B. 
Mr. P. A. Muntz, M.P, said that, 
as representing on the Council the 
county of Warwick, and also repre- 
senting that portion of the county in 
which Birmingham was situated, he 
would like to say that he proposed to 
put himself into communication with 
the authorities of that city in order 
to ascertain whether they would be 
prepared to invite the Society to visit 
Birmingham in 1895, and he hoped 
to report the result at the next meet- 
ing of the Council. 
It was then formally decided that 
the Country Meeting of 1895 be held 
in the city of Birmingham, or, failing 
that place, in the Society’s District 
B, consisting of the counties of 
Cumberland, Durham, Northumber- 
land, and Westmoreland. 
Miscellaneous. 
Various letters and other docu- 
ments having been laid upon the 
table, and the Report from the 
Council to .the General Meeting on 
the 29th instant having been pre- 
pared, the Council adjourned until 
Wednesday, May 31, next, at 10.30 
a.m. (Derby Day). 
STATEMENT OF ENTRIES AT CHESTER MEETING, 1893, 
As Compared with the Five Previous Years. 
Shedding in Implement Yard (in feet). X under of A nimals and Exhibits in Slock Yard. 
Sliedding 
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ft. 
ft. 
ft. 
ft. 
ft. 
ft. 
Oi dinary . 
8,610 
8 241 
8,313 
6,117 
10,378 
7,253 
Horses 
509 
447 
713 
328 
968 
546 
Machinery- 
Cattle 
758 
605 
661 
642 
1.637 
646 
in-motion 
2,211 
2,151 
2,106 
1,291 
2.496 
1,607 
Steep 
631 
610 
643 
571 
1,106 
546 
Special (in- 
clg. seeds, 
models. 
Pigs 
101 
202 
201 
. 223 
265 
148 
2,197 
2,119 
2,021 
1,67U 
2,728 
1,883 
Total 
2,059 
1,864 
2,221 
1,764 
3,976 
1,886 
<tc.) . . 
Poultry 
83G 
836 
800 
695 
862 
343 
Total . . 
13,018 
12,511 
12,473 
9,078 
15,602 
10,743 
Produce 
957 
423 
425 
456 
1,202 
556 
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