xxxiv  Report  to  the  General  Meeting. 
agricultural  character  of  the  south-western  counties,  of  which 
that  district  is  comprised  ; and  the  peculiar  attractions  offered  to 
general  visitors  by  the  county  of  Devon  alone,  in  which  the 
Meeting  will  be  held  ; are  circumstances  that  will  no  doubt  con- 
spire, with  the  especial  and  more  immediate  objects  of  the 
occasion,  in  drawing  together,  in  the  city  of  Exeter,  a very  large 
and  interesting  meeting.  The  parties  composing  this  numerous 
assemblage,  by  their  personal  communication  and  interchange  of 
sentiment  on  topics  of  practical  agriculture,  will  be  enabled  to 
promote  among  themselves  a spirit  of  enlightened  inquiry,  by 
mutual  comparison  of  local  systems  and  their  results;  and  at  the 
close  of  the  Meeting  will  in  all  probability  carry  back  to  their 
different  neighbouring  or  distant  residences  throughout  the 
country,  such  an  improved  accjuaintance  with  the  best  mode  of 
carrying  into  operation  the  most  useful  system  of  economy,  both 
of  the  time  and  the  means  at  their  disposal,  in  every  department 
of  husbandry,  as  will  lead  to  the  adoption  of  modes  of  manage- 
ment by  which  the  most  effective  results  may,  in  every  case,  be 
obtained  at  the  least  expenditure  of  time  and  money  : a mutual 
conference  on  topics  of  deep  practical  interest  to  the  agricultural 
community,  which  it  has  been  one  of  the  great  objects  of  the 
Society  to  recommend  and  promote,  through  the  medium  of  its 
Country  meetings. 
The  Council  have  accepted  the  invitation  of  the  Royal  Com- 
mission for  the  Exhibition  of  the  Works  of  Industry  of  all 
Nations  in  1851,  to  hold  a Show  of  Cattle  in  H)de  Park  in  that 
year;  but  finding  that  the  Royal  Commission  have  included  in 
the  arrangements  for  their  own  Exhibition  a department  for  agri- 
cultural implements,  the  Council,  with  a view  of  not  interfering 
with  this  department  of  the  Royal  Exhibition,  have  resolved  to 
omit  the  implement  portion  of  the  Society’s  Show  in  1851,  and 
to  confine  their  exertions  entirely  to  their  Show  of  Cattle,  as 
invited  by  the  Royal  Commission,  and  to  take  every  means  to 
render  that  Show  interesting  as  an  exhibition  of  Breeding  Stock. 
In  order  to  meet  this  new  arrangement  for  the  year  1851,  the 
Council  have  re-adjusted  accordingly  their  districts  lor  the 
