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Committee recommended that prizes 
for cider and perry be offered at 
Darlington as at Cambridge. 
Mr. Whitehead said that he was 
unavoidably absent from the meeting 
of the Committee on the previous 
day, and it was quite unwittingly 
that he appeared to be in opposition 
to his colleagues on the Committee in 
regard to the proposed continuance of 
prizes for jams and preserved fruits. 
He had been led to think that the 
prizes for jams and preserved fruits 
should be discontinued, because in his 
capacity as judge at Cambridge he 
had been much struck with the few 
and inferior entries that were then 
exhibited. A great deal of the jam 
was of such indifferent quality that 
he felt at the time that some altera- 
tion ought to be made, or that the 
prizes should be discontinued alto- 
gether. He might say that in a local 
show at Maidstone they had a very 
much larger entry of jams and pre- 
serves than they had ever had at the 
Royal Agricultural Society’s Meetings, 
and the reason, perhaps, might be 
that the large jam manufacturers 
did not care about competing, and 
that the private manufacturers did 
not like to run the chance of compet- 
ing against the large manufacturers 
at the “ Royal.” Probably if the regu- 
lations were reconsidered, and the 
large manufacturers eliminated alto- 
gether, or if different classes were 
made for them and for the private 
manufacturers, they might have a 
larger competition. He would be very 
sorry to appear to throw cold water 
upon any efforts to encourage indus- 
tries affecting agriculture, especially 
at this crisis, but it was evident that 
some alterations would have to be 
made with regard to the prizes for 
jams. 
Mr. Sanday said that he expressed 
no opinion on the subject now, but 
would point out that the Stock Prizes 
Committee would have to be consulted 
before these prizes could be inserted 
in the prize-sheet. 
Finger-and-Toe in Turnips. 
Earl Cathcakt, referring to the 
question of finger-and-toe in turnips, 
said that Mr. Rawlence had very 
kindly taken a great deal of pains in 
supplying Mr. Carrathers with inter- 
esting specimens of infected roots, 
and had also invited Mr. Carruthers 
to pay him a visit for the purpose of 
investigating the disease upon the 
spot. He should be glad to know 
when Mr. Carruthers was likely to 
present a report on this disease. 
Mr. Whitehead said that Mr. 
Carruthers was at present away on 
holiday, but that he (Mr. Whitehead) 
would write to him with a view to a 
report upon the subject being pre- 
sented at as early a date as possible. 
Veterinary. 
Mr. Ashworth (Chairman) re- 
ported that a desire had been ex- 
pressed by the Chairman of the 
Gloucestershire County Council that 
a separate reprint should be made of 
the articles on anthrax by Professors 
Brown and McFadyean in the current 
number of the Journal. The Com- 
mittee had referred the matter to the 
Journal Committee, with the expres- 
sion of their opinion that such a 
reprint would be desirable, but that 
the authors should be asked to revise 
their articles so as to adapt them for 
publication in pamphlet form. The 
Committee had discussed the ques- 
tion of the advisability of in future 
publishing the reasons for the vete- 
rinary rejection of stallions and brood 
mares under Regulation 44 of the 
prize-sheet ; and eventually it had 
been agreed to recommend that at 
future Country Meetings the owner 
of an animal rejected under this regula- 
tion, upon his application, be furnished 
with a copy of the veterinary certi- 
ficate. The Committee also recom- 
mended that in future the Dames of 
the veterinary surgeons who were to 
be engaged in the examination of the 
horses to be exhibited at the Society’s 
Country Meeting should be previously 
submitted to the Veterinary Commit- 
tee for approval, and then published 
in the Journal, together with the 
names of the judges. Letters had 
been read from the Farriers’ Com- 
pany, communicating the following 
resolutions of the Registration Com- 
mittee under the scheme for the 
National Registration of Farriers or 
