874 ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND, 
stands at £17.488 17s. 10 d. stock, in the New 3 per Cents.; 
and the current cash balance in the hands of the bankers on 
the 1st inst. was £4298 19 s. 
“ Papers have been read, at the weekly meetings, of much 
interest to the agricultural community—first, on c The Agri¬ 
culture of Russia/ communicated by the Imperial Society of 
Agriculture of Moscow; second, on e Cattle Condiments/ by 
Mr. Beale Browne; third, on e Steam-boiler Explosions/ by 
Mr. Holland, M.P.; fourth, on f The Growth of Mangold- 
wurtzel / fifth, on f Preparing, Mixing, and Cooking Food for 
Cattle/ by Mr. Frere; and sixth, on f The Present State of 
Agriculture in Algeria/ by Mr. Caird, M.P. A lecture has 
been delivered by Professor Voelcker on c Milk,’ 
“The dissemination of the information thus given, by means 
of the public press, has been attended with much benefit. 
“Professor Simonds’ report on ‘Rot in Sheep ’ has been 
published in the form of a pamphlet, and may now be pur¬ 
chased of Mr. Murray. It will be inserted in the next 
number of the journal. 
“ The space applied for by the exhibitors of implements 
having much exceeded the area allotted to that department, 
it has been found necessary to exclude many articles which 
have of late years been exhibited in the Society’s show-yard, 
but which had no immediate connection with the purposes 
of agriculture. 
“The number of stock entered for competition in almost 
every class in which prizes have been offered leads the 
Council to anticipate a very imporcant show. 
“ It has been determined to erect strong weather-proof 
horse-boxes, for all the entire horses, in a distinct portion of 
the yard, where, at stated periods, they will be let out for 
exhibition. 
“ The arrangements for giving the metropolitan meeting an 
international character have been much advanced by the 
assistance received from Her Majesty’s Secretary of State 
for Foreign Affairs, in communicating with the Ministers of 
Agriculture in foreign countries; and the Council cannot do 
less than recognise in this public manner his Lordship’s cor¬ 
dial co-operation with the objects of the Society. 
“In compliance with the very generally expressed wish of 
the members, the Council have directed a programme of 
the arrangements connected with the meeting at Battersea 
Park to be forwarded to every member of the Society, who 
will thus be duly informed of the subjects of interest during 
the show. 
“The collection of wool exhibited by the Society in Class 
