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ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 
Steam cultivation ...... <£2.5 
Extent to which tillage operations act as a substitute 
for manure ...... 20 
Modification of four-course rotation consequent 
upon modern improvements . . . .20 
Varieties of wheat, barley, and oats best adapted 
for high farming . . ... 20 
Causes of the increased difficulties of turnip culti¬ 
vation, and the remedies . . . . .20 
Comparative cost of high-condition of land pro¬ 
duced by purchased cattle food, or by purchased 
manure ........ 20 
Any other agricultural subject . . . .10 
Lectures have been delivered before the members by Pro¬ 
fessor Henfrey “On Vegetable Physiology,” and by Professor 
Simonds “On the Composition of the Blood, and the Diseases 
with which that fluid is connected in the animal economy. 
Professor Voelcker, the consulting chemist of the Society, 
has made to the members, at the weekly councils, various 
communications on points of practical interest connected 
with the adulteration of guano, and the feeding properties of 
cotton-seed cake. He has also recently presented to the 
council, through the chemical committee, a detailed state¬ 
ment of the works carried on by him as the chemist of the 
Societ}^, in his laboratory at Cirencester, and also a plan of 
the various arrangements he has in comtemplation, in order 
that he may be enabled more fully to carry out the practical 
usefulness of his scientific labours. The council have adopted 
an enlarged schedule of the privileges enjoyed by members 
of the Society in availing themselves of Professor Voelcker’s 
professional aid. 
The Chester meeting proved in every respect the most 
important one hitherto held by the Society ; the number of 
visitors exceeded by many thousands the average amount of 
former years, and the liveliest interest was exhibited through¬ 
out the district in the proceedings of the occasion. 
The council have decided that the Warwick meeting shall 
be held in the week commencing Monday, the 11th of July 
next. The Society’s prizes for live stock will exceed by £58 
the total amount of prizes offered last year in this depart¬ 
ment ; and third prizes have been added to the great majority 
of the classes for cattle, sheep, and pigs. The council have 
decided to adopt several arrangements connected with the 
mode of distinguishing the prize animals, and the restriction 
of local prizes to competition in their own classes, which 
