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General Meeting, June 21, 1892. 
industry (cheers). They had col- 
lected together there a magnificent 
Show. They had there the products 
of that superior agriculture to which 
others had alluded, and which placed 
this country in the foremost field of 
agricultural progress. They had there 
specimens of those splendid breeds of 
horses, cattle, sheep, and other live 
stock which did honour to those who 
had brought them there, and which 
were only representatives of those 
valuable breeds of stock which per- 
vaded every portion of this highly 
favoured land. And they had also 
there those mechanical appliances 
which science had brought to the aid 
of agriculture, and which were so 
valuable to them, the agriculturists of 
England, exposed as they were to un- 
limited competition with the rest of 
the world. The great object which 
that Society must have, which it had 
had in the past and would, no doubt, 
have in the future, was to assist the 
farmers of England to increase their 
production and so to economise their 
industry and their labour as to enable 
them, hard and difficult as it was, to 
compete with the foreign imports into 
the country. He would not detain 
them longer, but he specially wished 
to refer, in regard to the success of 
that great Meeting, to the valuable 
assistance which they had received 
from their friend Sir Jacob Wilson 
(cheers). He was sure they would 
all be glad to see him restored, he 
hoped, to health. He had to thank 
their Secretary, Mr. Clarke, for the 
energy and zeal with which he filled 
his important office. He had to 
thank the Stewards of Stock and of 
the various other departments who 
had spent so much labour, industry, 
and energy in promoting the arrange- 
ments of the Show. He believed that 
the Society would continue to be 
conducted with that singleness of 
purpose, with that integrity, with 
that straightforward zeal and har- 
mony which had pervaded their pro- 
ceedings. He believed that the 
Society was destined in the future, 
as it had been in the past, to be of 
the greatest value and benefit to the 
great industry of which they all were 
members, and also, he would add, to 
the people at large. (Applause.) 
President for 1892-93. 
Colonel Le Cornu said, that as an 
old member of the Society he had 
been requested to move ; “ That his 
Grace the Duke of Westminster, K.G., 
do take the Chair as President, after 
the conclusion of the present Meet- 
ing.” As the Society would be hold- 
ing its next Meeting in the historic 
city of Chester, with which the name 
of his Grace’s family was so intimately 
connected, it would be a privilege 
indeed that one who took so vast, so 
wide, and so varied an interest in 
agriculture should preside over the 
Society upon that occasion. He felt 
sure, in moving that resolution, that 
it would receive a most hearty 
response from all the members of the 
Society, and he, therefore, felt how 
unnecessary it was for him to add 
any further words to the motion. 
Mr. Jacob Fair, as another old 
member, seconded the motion. As a 
Lancashire man he could say that 
there had been some disappointment 
that the Society was not going to 
Manchester. At the same time he 
thought that the satisfaction was now 
universal that they were going to the 
good old city of Chester, and that his 
Grace would be the President on that 
occasion. 
The Duke of Westminster thanked 
them extremely for having kindly 
adopted the motion, and he had 
to thank the seconder for having 
kindly reconciled himself to the fact 
that he had been beaten, though only 
by one vote. In going to the historic 
old city of Chester, where they would 
be most happy to meet the members 
next year under, he hoped, favourable 
auspices, he felt some little sinking 
of heart in looking upon that very 
beautiful park. But their Meeting 
would be, first of all, of business, 
secondly of pleasure, for they could 
show them the sights which Chester 
could afford in its rows and in its 
walls, which were well-worth visiting 
by those who had not seen them. 
Nothing should be wanting on his part 
to promote the success of the Jleeting 
next year, which, he hoped, would be 
as successful as that held under the 
excellent auspices of Lord Feversham. 
The proceedings then terminated. 
