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7. The competitor will find one attendant 
to drive and work each machine. Any 
assistance given by the competitor himself 
or other workman will be noted by the 
Judges. 
8. The order in which the several machines 
will be tested will be determined by the 
Stewards, who will decide by lot. 
9. Machines are not to be worked under 
conditions as to weather and crop when such 
machines would not be used in the actual 
work of a farm. 
10. Tlie attention of the Judges and Engi- 
neer will be particularly directed to the fol- 
lowing matters : — 
1. Price. 
2. Weight. 
3. Simplicity, strength, and construc- 
tion. 
4. Efficient protection of the gearing, 
and freedom of the machine from 
choking. 
5. Excellence of work in turning and 
lightening up of the crop without 
damaging it. 
6. Draught in work. 
11. Should the Judges find any of the 
machines to be of practically equal merit, 
they are empowered to bracket them as 
equal, and so divide the prize-money. 
12. Entries for the prizes in any of these 
classes must be made on or before Monday, 
April 1, 1895, and must be accompanied by 
a deposit of £1 for each entry. Such deposit 
will be forfeited if the implement is not sub- 
mitted for competition at the time appointed 
for the trials. 
By order of the Council, 
Ernest Clarke, Secretary. 
12, Hanover Square, London, W. 
April 4, 1894. 
General Cambridge. 
The Earl of Feversham reported 
the recommendations of the Com- 
mittee that the Band of the King’s 
Dragoon Guards be engaged to play 
on four days of the Show ; that the 
usual application be made to the 
Home Secretary for the services of a 
detachment of the A Division of the 
Metropolitan Police ; and that 16,000 
copies of the combined Stock and 
Implement Catalogue be printed as 
usual. Copies had been laid upon 
the table of the Official Register of 
Houses and Apartments to be let in 
Cambridge during the time of the 
Show. Various other details had 
been discussed and settled, including 
the arrangements to be made for the 
sale of timber after the Show. 
Showyard Works. 
The Hon. C. T. Parker reported 
that the Showyard at Cambridge was 
enclosed with a high fence, and that 
about 6,000 feet of implement and 
machinery-in-motion shedding had 
been built. The stables were also in 
a very forward state, and the refresh- 
ment pavilions were well in hand. 
The Local Committee had completed 
the levelling of the yard, and were 
now laying the water mains, and the 
whole of the works were in a very 
forward state. The Committee had 
approved a revised plan of the Show- 
yard, showing the proposed re- 
arrangements made necessary by the 
unusually large amount of space 
applied for this year by the ex- 
hibitors in the implement depart- 
ment. The following tenders for the 
supply of refreshments at Cambridge 
were recommended for acceptance : — 
Nos. 1, 3, 4, and 9, W. E. Wood 
(Cambridge Syndicate) ; No. 2, George 
E. Barton, York ; No. 5, H. S. Bailey, 
Birmingham ; No. 6, Bourne and Co., 
Dudley ; No. 8, Bodega ; No. 10, T. E. 
Cuthbert, York. The Secretary had 
submitted specimens of prize cards, 
slightly smaller than those at present 
in use, which were approved by the 
Committee. The Local Committee 
had recommended the appointment of 
Mr. Arthur Tress Grain as the auc- 
tioneer for the sale of the timber 
after the close of the Cambridge 
Meeting, and the Committee recom- 
mended the appointment of Mr. 
Grain, subject to his acceptance of 
the conditions of appointment laid 
down by the Society. 
Selection. 
Earl Cathcart (Chairman) said 
that, as the Council would be aware, 
a list of the twenty-five members of 
Council who retired by rotation, with 
their attendances at Committee and 
Council meetings, had to be prepared 
at that meeting, in anticipation of 
the General Meeting on May 22. 
Under Bye-law 23 (i), Members who 
had not attended meetings of the 
Council at least twice in each year 
were not eligible for re-election ; and 
as the Duke of Portland had been un- 
able to give the necessary number of 
attendances during the last two years, 
his name could not be submitted to 
the Council for re-election at the 
General Meeting to be held in May. 
There would therefore be a vacancy 
to be filled up on that occasion. The 
other retiring members of Council 
