XXXIV 
Monthly Council, February 3 , 1892 . 
could not give any undertaking as to 
the supply of gas in the Showyard. 
Selection. 
Earl Cathcaet reported his elec- 
tion as Chairman of the year, and 
stated that letters had been received 
from Professor Hellriegel and Dr. 
tSickesz, thanking the Society for their 
election as Honorary Members. 
Education. 
Mr. PiDGEON reported the election 
of Lord Moreton as Chairman of the 
year. Copies of the Society’s text- 
book on agriculture, which was pub- 
lished on January 1 last, had been 
laid upon the table, and the Secretary 
had reported that the first edition 
having immediately run out of print, 
a second and much larger edition had, 
with the approval of the Chairman, 
been printed. This edition, published 
on January 20, having also been ex- 
hausted, the Committeerecommended 
that a third edition be immediately 
prepared, including any alterations 
made by the author, as the result of 
suggestions received. 
Dairy. 
Sir John Thoeold reported the 
election of the Hon. Cecil T. Parker 
as Chairman of the year. A further 
letter had been received from Viscount 
Hampden, President of the English 
Jersey Cattle Society, as to the pro- 
posed prizes for dairy cattle, subject 
to a butter test by the churn, and 
asking the Dairy Committee to ex- 
plain the nature of the “ practical 
difficulties ” in the way of such a test. 
The Committee, after further consid- 
eration of the matter, recommended 
that the Secretary be instructed to 
inform Lord Hampden that the objec- 
tion of the Committee was not based 
upon a question of principle, but 
that in their opinion it would be im- 
possible to carry out in the Showyard 
in the manner proposed, with the 
means and time at the Society’s dis- 
posal, trials with results scientifically 
accurate and, therefore, absolutely 
reliable. The Committee had care- 
fully revised the “ Simple Rules for 
Butter-making,” the last edition of 
which was now out of print, and they 
recommended that a new edition, as 
altered, be printed and issued forth- 
wdth. The question of the judging 
of dairy implements was discussed, 
and the Committee recommended that 
in future a Judge skilled in Dairy 
matters should be appointed to act 
with the Judges of Miscellaneous Im- 
plements in their inspection of the 
Dairy Implements entered for the 
Society’s Silver Medals. 
Suggestions made at General 
Meeting. 
The suggestions made by Members 
at the General Meeting, held on 
December 10 last, were then con- 
sidered. The suggestions of Mr. 
George Barham and Mr. C. F. Hope 
as to railway rates, fares, &c., were 
noted for future consideration in 
connection with the general rail- 
way arrangements for the Society’s 
Shows ; Mr. Kersley Fowler’s sugges- 
tion as to trials of steam-cultivating 
machinery was dealt with by the 
recommendation of the Implement 
Committee as to Steam-diggers at 
Warwick ; and as to Mr. Fowler’s 
second suggestion, that the Society 
“ should take further steps to encour- 
age in this country the growth of sugar 
beet and the manufacture of beetroot 
sugar,” the Council did not see their 
way to take any steps in this matter, 
in view of the fiscal and economic 
difficulties involved in the question. 
Miscellaneous. 
A letter was read from the Mansion 
House United Association on Railway 
Rates, asking the Society to make an 
annual subscription to its funds. The 
consideration of this letter was post- 
poned, but the Duke of Richmond 
and Gokdon intimated that he should 
object to the Society subscribing to 
the Association, as the railway rates 
question had now been practically 
settled. 
Other formal business having been 
transacted, the Council adjourned 
until Wednesday, March 2 next, at 
noon. 
