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Monthly  Council , March , 2,  1910. 
Mr.  John  Rowell,  Mr.  W.  Scoby,  Mr.  Fred  Smith,  Mr.  E.  W.  Stanyfortb, 
Mr.  A.  P.  Turner,  Mr.  C.  W.  Wilson,  and  Mr.  L.  C.  Wrigley. 
The  following  members  of  the  Liverpool  Local  Committee  were  also 
present  :■ — Lord  Shuttleworth,  Mr.  R.  B.  Neilson,  and  Mr.  Percy  Corkhill. 
The  President,  in  opening  the  proceedings,  said  it  was  his  melancholy 
duty  to  announce  that  since  the  Council  last  met  in  that  room,  they  had  lost 
by  death  two  of  their  number.  Mr.  Robert  Forrest,  who  joined  the  Council 
in  1905,  had  been  a member  of  the  Special  Committee  appointed  in  that  year, 
and  had  also  served  on  the  Showyard  Works  Committee.  Mr.  Forrest,  owing 
to  his  local  engagements,  had  not  been  a very  regular  attendant  at  meetings, 
and  it  was  only  at  the  pressing  request  of  the  members  of  the  Society  in  his 
Division  that  he  retained  his  seat  on  the  Council.  Mr.  Forrest  had  been 
elected  a Life  Governor  of  the  Society  so  recently  as  May,  1905.  Mr.  George 
Adams,  who  also  joined  the  Council  in  1905,  would  be  remembered  as  a very 
successful  farmer  and  breeder  of  stock,  having  obtained  the  second  prize  of 
50 1.  in  the  Farm  Competition  held  under  the  auspices  of  the  Society  in  the 
year  1882,  when  the  Show  was  at  Reading.  Mr.  Adams  had  served  on 
the  Stock  Prizes  and  Judges’  Selection  Committees. 
The  minutes  of  the  last  meeting  of  the  Council,  held  on  February  2,  1910, 
were  taken  as  read  and  approved. 
The  Earl  of  Macclesfield  and  Mr.  Robert  Mond,  of  Combe  Bank,  Sevenoaks, 
were  elected  Governors,  and  48  duly  nominated  candidates  were  admitted  into 
the  Society  as  Members. 
The  Report  of  the  Finance  Committee  was  received  and  adopted,  together 
with  the  Accounts  and  Balance  Sheet  for  the  year  ended  December  31,  1909, 
and  the  Estimates  of  Receipts  and  Expenditure  for  the  year  1910,  as  to 
which  documents  an  explanatory  statement  was  made  by  Mr.  Adeane 
(Chairman  of  the  Finance  Committee). 
The  President  stated  that  the  Sites  Committee  had  not  been  able  to 
complete  their  reports  on  the  sites  they  had  visited  at  Doncaster  and  York, 
and  they  asked  for  the  permission  of  the  Council  to  postpone  these  reports 
until  the  April  meeting. 
The  Report  of  the  Chemical  and  Woburn  Committee  was  received  and 
adopted,  including  a recommendation  that  the  following  Resolution,  which 
had  been  unanimously  passed  by1  the  Committee,  should  be  forwarded  to  the 
Board  of  Agriculture  : — That  in  the  opinion  of  this  Committee  the  Fertilisers 
and  Feeding  Stuffs  Act  in  its  present  form  is  inoperative  and  requires 
amendment.” 
Sir  Gilbert  Greenall  reported  that  it  had  been  decided  that  the 
Horticultural  Exhibition  should  be  open  from  Wednesday,  June  22,  to 
Saturday,  June  25.  The  classification  would  be  similar  to  that  provided 
at  Gloucester  last  year,  with  the  addition  of  classes  for  the  best  collection 
of  eight  kinds  of  vegetables,  and  for  the  best  collection  of  eight  kinds  of'  fruit. 
It  was  reported  that  the  first  inspection  by  the  Judges  of  the  Farms 
entered  for  competition  had  been  completed.  Several  questions  raised  by 
the  Judges  with  regard  to  various  farms  had  been  considered,  and  instructions 
given  thereon.  The  Committee  recommended  that  the  second  inspection 
of  the  farms  should  take  place  at  the  end  of  May. 
The  Duke  of  Devonshire  reported  that  the  Special  Committee  had 
met  on  February  21,  when  they  had  again  had  the  advantage  of  meeting 
Sir  Thomas  Elliott  and  Mr.  Anstruther,  of  the  Board  of  Agriculture,  but 
His  Grace  regretted  that  the  Committee  were  not  in  a position  that  day  to 
present  a definite  report.  'They  proposed  to  have  another  meeting  after 
the  Council,  and  he  hoped  they  would  have  something  definite  to  lay  before 
the  Council  at  an  early  date. 
Mr.  Rogers  reported  that  the  Forestry  Committee  had  prepared  a schedule 
for  the  Forestry  Exhibition  to  be  held  in  the  Liverpool  Showyard,  very  much 
on  the  same  lines  as  last  year.  The  alterations  which  had  been  made  had 
