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Hi^l>orf fo the General Meetinri, 
elected Sir Jacob a Life Governor of the Society, and requested 
liis acceptance as from the Society of a piece of plate of the value of 
100 guineas, in grateful recognition of his invaluable services. 
8. The Council have decided that the Chester Meeting shall open 
on Monday, June 19, 1893, 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 17. The last day for making entries in the Implement 
Department will be Saturday, April 1 ; but post-entries of agri- 
cultural implements only will be received up to Saturday, April 8. 
For Stock, Poultry, and Produce the entries will close on Monday, 
May 1, with post-entries at double fees up to Friday, May 12. 
9. The Council have already reported their decision to offer in 
connection with the Chester Meeting prizes amounting in all to 100/. 
for Self-Binding Harvesters, using other binding material than wire. 
Two prizes of 20/. and 10/. will also be offered for Sheep-Shearing 
INIachines, worked by power and by hand or foot respectively. 
10. The prize-sheet for Stock, Poultry, and Produce has now 
been definitely settled, and will be issued immediately. The prizes 
offered (exclusive of Champion Prizes and Medals offered by various 
Breed Societies) amount in all to G,227/., of which 1,428/. is pro- 
^ ided by tlie Chester Local Committee. 
11. The special prizes offered by the Chester Local Committee 
for Ijive Stock include five classes for Hunter Mares and Geldings, 
two for Hackney Mares and Geldings, two for Welsh IMountain 
Ponies, tv/o for Harness Horses, two for Clydesdales, and three for 
Agricultural Geldings; one for Welsh.- cattle and two Champion 
Cups for the best male and the best female of that breed ; one class 
each ■ for Kerry and Dexter Kerry Heifers ; five classes for Dairy 
Cows and Heifers ; one class for pens of Shrop.shire shearling Rams ; 
and two for Welsh Mountain Sheep. The Local Committee also offer 
tlie very handsome amount of 540/. for prizes for Cheshire Cheese, 
including a Champion prize of 100/. and rewards to the makers of tlie 
first prize cheese in each of eight classes ; and they have, moreover, 
provided the funds for an extra Butter-making Competition amongst 
dairymaids and others, who have received instruction at the Dairy 
schools in Cheshire and North Wales. 
12. The classes for Horses oflered by the Society itself will in- 
clude Hunters, Cleveland Bays, Coach Horses, Hackneys, Ponies, 
Shires, Clydesdales, and Suffolks. In the Cattle Classes, prizes will 
be offered by the Society for the Shorthorn, Hereford, Devon, Sussex, 
Welsh, Red Polled, Aberdeen Angus, Galloway, Ayrshire, Jersey, 
Guernsey, Kerry, and Dexter Kerry breeds, as well as for Dairy 
Cows yielding the largest quantity of butter by practical test of the 
churn. The classes for Sheep will include Leicesters, Cotswolds, 
Lincolns, Oxford Downs, Shropshires, Southdowns, Hampshire 
