xlviii Annual General Meeting of Governors and Members , 
was formally presented to the Mem- 
bers. With regard to the financial 
position of the Society, he was happy 
to be in a position to say that at the 
close of the current year the Society 
would be better off by roughly the sum 
of 5,OOOZ. than it was at the end of 
1905. The accounts in connection 
with the Derby Show had been duly 
audited and were presented to the 
meeting. In would be observed that 
the financial result of this most success- 
ful Show was a profit of 2,028 1. 8.?. ±d. 
It would be seen from the Report of the 
Council that the present number of 
Members on the Society’s books was 
9,620 as against9,269 when he took office 
in August, 1905. There had naturally 
been a great many resignations amongst 
those Members who resided in the 
locality of Park Royal, and they had 
lost a large number of Members this 
year through deaths, which accounted 
for the apparently small increase in 
the membership of the Society. This 
would be quite understood when he 
said that during his term of office, 
1,023 new Governors and Members had 
been elected. 
Report from the Council. 
Sir John Swinburne, in moving 
the adoption of the Report, was sorry 
to say that, living in the North of 
England, he had not had very much 
time to give proper attention to all 
the matters referred to therein. He 
took the opportunity, however, to men- 
tion that, in his opinion, it would 
conduce very much indeed to the com- 
fort of visitors, and also increase the 
number of people attending the Show, 
if more facilities were given for circu- 
lating round the Showyard. He might 
mention that he had been present at 
the Manchester meeting a few years 
ago. It was a very hot day, and the 
Showyard was almost half a mile in 
length, and before visitors arrived at 
the particular spot they desired to go 
to they were pretty well roasted. This 
year at Derby a very heavy rain came 
on, and one day of the week the ground 
was in such a bad state that the mud 
was over the tops of one’s boots. He 
suggested that a single line of horse 
trams should run right round the 
Showyard. There were five railway 
companies running into Derby, and 
he was sure that, there would be no 
difficulty about obtaining sleepers to 
construct the line. It would only be 
necessary to have one track round the 
yard. He believed that if this sugges- 
tion were adopted it would increase 
the attendance at the Show, and con- 
sequently the financial result from the 
gate money would be very much in- 
creased. He took the opportunity of 
mentioning the matter at that meeting, 
because it took a considerable amount 
of time to arrange these matters if 
they were to be done profitably and 
at a small cost. 
Mr. W. A. Prout, in seconding the 
motion, said it seemed to him the most 
satisfactory Report that had been pre- 
sented to the Members for many years. 
The Report of the Council was then 
adopted. 
Election of President. 
-The Right Hon. F. J. SAVILE 
Foljambe moved: “That the Earl 
of Yarborough be elected President of 
the Society to hold office until the next 
ensuing Annual General Meeting.” 
Having had an intimate acquaintance 
with three generations of the family, 
he felt that he could speak from his 
heart as to Lord Yarborough’s qualifi- 
cations to fill the Presidency of the 
Society. His lordship was the posses- 
sor of an acreage larger than many 
counties, and on that acreage he had 
the finest lot of tenantry in England. 
It was almost within his recollection 
that two great breeds had been intro- 
duced to the notice of farmers ; he 
meant the Lincoln sheep, of which the 
largest breeder was present in that 
room — and he believed he was a tenant 
or neighbour of Lord Yarborough — and 
the breed of Red Shorthorns. These 
had been born and nurtured on his 
lordship’s property. The present Lord 
Yarborough had very great business 
qualifications, and he had the greatest 
confidence and pleasure in proposing 
his election as President of the 
Society. 
Mr. C. W. Tindall, in seconding 
the motion, said that it would be a 
source of the greatest satisfaction to 
the tenant-farmers of Lincolnshire and 
to the city of Lincoln to know that Lord 
Yarborough had been elected Presi- 
dent of the Society. It was a matter 
