Monday^ May 23, 1892. 
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charge for admission to non-members will be 2s. 6d. The judging 
will take place in all the classes on Monday, June 20, whenthe 
charge for admission will be 5s. On Tuesday and Wednesday 
the charge for admission will be 2s. 6d. each day ; and on tlie last 
two days, Thui’sday and Friday, it will be Is. each day. 
14 . The Council have already reported the receipt of invitations 
from the authorities of Chester and Manchester for the holding of 
the Society’s Country Meeting of 1893. Both cities sent influen- 
tial deputations in support of their respective claims on February 3 
last, when the choice of place of the Country Meeting for next 
year came up for final decision. After duly considering the argu- 
ments of both deputations and the Report of the Committee of 
Inspection appointed to examine the sites and other accommoda- 
tion offered by each locality, the Council determined by twenty-one 
votes to twenty in favour of Chester, where the Country Meeting of 
1893 will accordingly be held. Its agricultural importance and 
convenience of access for Cheshire, Lancashire, and North Wales 
render the city of Chester an aduimable centre for the Society’s dis- 
trict, and sanguine anticipations are entertained of a very successful 
Meeting. 
15 . In connection with the Chester Meeting of 1893, the 
Council have resolved to allocate the sum of 5,000Z. in prizes for live 
stock, poultry and produce, and to offer three prizes of 501., 30/., 
and 20/. respectively for the best Self-Binding Harvester, using 
other binding material than wire. The trials of Harvesters will 
take place during the harvest of 1893, on land selected by the 
Society, in the neighbourhood of Chester, and the last day for 
receiving entries will be Saturday, April 1, 1893, which is also the 
date for the closing of the ordinary Implement entries. 
16 . As the Chester Meeting of 1893 will have completed a second 
series of Meetings under the scheme for the rotation of districts 
revised in 1878, tlie Council in March last appointed a Special 
Committee to consider the advisability or otherwise of making any 
changes in tlie present arrangement. This Committee has now 
reported (see page 363), and as the result of its deliberations the 
Council have determined to continue the existing rotation and 
division of the counties, but to make the Metropolis, and the large 
provincial cities of Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester, ex-terri- 
torial so far as the geographical distribution of the Society’s districts 
is concerned. 
17 . Under this plan, therefore, the Country Meeting of 1894 
will be held in District A, comprising the counties of Bedford, 
Buckingham, Cambridge, Essex, Hertford, Huntingdon, Middlesex, 
Norfolk, Oxford, and Suffolk ; and the localities of the Country 
Meetings for the succeeding eight years have provisionally been 
settled as follows : 
