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that they should publish the names of vendors in such cases, as by doing so 
they would be benefiting the agricultural interest. He might say with regaid 
to action by the Board of Agriculture under the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs 
Act, that in a great many cases it was impossible to proceed because farmers 
had not taken their samples within the limit of ten days required by the Act. 
Consequently, it was all the more incumbent upon the Society to take up these 
matters. 
The Report of the Chemical and Woburn Committee was received and 
adopted. 
The President said Members of the Council would remember that at a 
previous meeting a hearty invitation to visit the Show at Newcastle had been 
accorded to the Hungarian Agriculturists who were hoping shortly to make a 
tour in this country. The Society’s invitation had been most cordially 
accepted by the Secretary of the National Agricultural Society of Hungary, 
and the party were proposing to arrive in London on Monday, June 15, when 
they would be received by the President of the Board of Agriculture. They 
had expressed a desire to be received at the Society’s House at 4 p.m. on the 
same day, and he need hardly say that it would afford him the greatest pleasure 
to be present to receive their distinguished visitors. He hoped that as many 
Members of Council as could make it convenient would be present on that 
occasion. 
Other business having been transacted, the Council adjourned until 
Wednesday, July 1, 1908 (in the Newcastle Showyard). 
IReceptton of IRepresentativcs of 
IWational Horicultural Society of 1bunoan>. 
MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1908. 
The party of Hungarian agriculturists, numbering about fifty, who, at the 
invitation of the Council, visited the Society’s Show at Newcastle, arrived in 
London on the morning of June 15, and were received at the House of Lords 
dnring the afternoon by Earl Carrington, K.G., President of the Board of 
Agriculture ; and later a visit was paid to the offices of the Society at 
16 Bedford Square, where the party were received by the Duke of Devon- 
SHIBE (President) and other Members of the Council. 
The Duke of Devonshire said that it was with the greatest pleasure that 
he was there that day — at the request of his colleagues on the Council — to 
offer those gentlemen of the National Agricultural Society of Hungary a very 
cordial welcome. It bad always been the endeavour of their Society to foster 
international relations for the advancement of the common cause of agriculture, 
and he hoped that they would all take back with them pleasant recollections 
of their visit. A programme had been prepared for a tour in England and 
Scotland during the next two or three weeks, which he trusted would give 
their visitors an opportunity of seeing characteristic examples of all the 
various branches of British agriculture which could not fail to be of the 
greatest interest to them. The Council were very pleased that the party were 
proposing to be present at their English National Agricultural Show at 
Newcastle, where it was hoped they would be able to see some of the finest 
specimens of live stock, as well as a very comprehensive collection of the 
implements in general use by the agriculturists of this country. 
Count Laszlo Esterhazy, as Chairman of the party, expressed their 
appreciation of the compliment paid to them by the Council of the Royal 
Agricultural Society, who had given them such a cordial invitation to this 
country. 
