appearance of being a well made and easily managed machine, suitable for cricket fields or large stretches of lawn in pleasure grounds. CONCLUSION. In concluding this Report, I desire on behalf of my colleague, Mr. J. G. Mair-Rumley, and myself to record our best thanks to Mr. J. Maxwell, of Aglionby Farm, near Carlisle, who was good enough to allow several implements to be tried on his farm, and who spared no pains to facilitate our work, providing horses and men, and giving up his own valuable time to assist us personally in every possible way. Our thanks are also due to Mr. Varley, Cobble House, Belle View, Carlisle, for allowing the Side Delivery Reaper to be tried on his farm. We desire also to express our thanks to the Stewards of Implements, Mr. J. Marshall Dugdale, Mr. R. M. Greaves, and Mr. R. Neville Grenville, and to the Society's Consulting Engineer, Mr. F. S. Courtney, for the valuable assistance they afforded us. WALTER L. BOURKE. The Old Hall, Worsley, Manchester. Official Reports. REPORT OF THE COUNCIL TO THE SIXTY-THIRD ANNIVERSARY GENERAL MEETING OF HELD AT THE SOCIETY'S HOUSE ON THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1902, H.R.H. PRINCE CHRISTIAN OF SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN, K.G. (President) in the Chair. 1. The Council have to report the following changes in the list of Governors and Members during the year which has elapsed since the last Anniversary Meeting in May, 1901 :8 Governors, 2 Honorary Members, and 244 Members have been admitted into the Society, and 13 Members have been reinstated under Bye-law 12; whilst the deaths of 7 Governors, 2 Honorary Members, 118 Life Members, and 141 Annual Members have been reported. A total of 319 Members have resigned; whilst 17 have been struck off the books under Byelaw 10, owing to absence of addresses, and 67 under Byelaw 11, for arrears of subscriptions. 2. Amongst the Governors of the Society whose deaths have been announced since the last meeting in December are Earl Fitzwilliam, K.G. (elected in 1872); Sir Thomas Lucas, Bart. (elected in 1888); Mr. Cadwallader J. Bates (a subscriber since 1883); Mr. J. Lewis Fytche (a subscriber since 1854); and Major William Sparks (a Member since June 6, 1838, elected a Foundation Life Governor on March 5, 1890). Amongst other Members who have died during the past halfyear are Baron Arthur von Hohenbruck, of Vienna (an Honorary Member since 1890), and Sir J. Henry Gilbert, F.R.S. (an Honorary Member since 1883); Viscount Barrington, Lord Rookwood, the Right Hon. Sir Richard Temple, Bart., Sir James Laing, Mr. George Ashburner, Mr. E. J. Beale, Mr. David Buttar, Mr. T. Duckham (a Member since 1856), Colonel F. J. Justice, Mr. Frederick King, Mr. C. Gay Roberts, Mr. Frank Rollason, Mr. Astley Vigers, and Mr. G. F. Wilson, F.R.S. 3. In Sir Henry Gilbert the Society has lost not only a distinguished Honorary Member, but the survivor of the two famous scientific workers whose researches, many of them first published in the Society's Journal, have exercised so great an influence upon the science and practice of Agriculture throughout the world. Sir Henry Gilbert's share in the work of the Rothamsted Experiments has been placed on record in the last Volume of the Journal; and the life-long labours of "Lawes and Gilbert" will be always held in grateful remembrance by the agricultural community. Happily, the continuance of the Rothamsted Experiments is assured by the Lawes Agricultural Trust, established and endowed by the late Sir John Lawes in 1889. 4. For the reasons set out in the Report to the last Anniversary Meeting, the Council deemed it desirable, in the general interests of the Society, that the names of those Members who had from various causes ceased to pay their subscriptions, but who had not formally resigned their Membership, should be removed from the Registers. The amount of nominal "arrears of subscription" has thus been considerably reduced, and, as shown in the Balance-Sheet appended to this Report [see page xiii], was only 1577. on December 31, 1901, as against 5321. at the end of 1900. The issue to Life Members, in accordance with Bye-law 5, of a form of receipt for Volume 62 of the Journal, has resulted in the elimination of a considerable number of names of Life Members whose deaths might not otherwise have been notified to the Society. These removals from the Register have, together with the resignations, necessarily affected adversely the total number of Members on the roll, which the elections of new Members during the year have done litttle to repair. The total number of Governors and Members now on the Register is 9,650 (as against 10,033 in May, 1901), divided as follows: : 7 Foundation Life Governors (Members elected before 69 Governors paying an annual subscription of 51.; 5,955 Members paying an annual subscription of 17. ; 114 Life Members by Examination ; 26 Honorary Members; 9,650 Total number of Governors and Members. Thursday, May 22, 1902. 235 5. The Balance-Sheet for the year 1901 has been duly examined and certified as correct by the three Auditors appointed by the Members (Messrs. Jonas M. Webb, Hubert J. Greenwood, and Newell P. Squarey), and by the professional Accountants (Messrs. Welton, Jones & Co.) employed by the Society. It is printed as an Appendix to this Report [see page xii], with the two customary Statements of (a) Ordinary Income and Expenditure, and (b) Receipts and Expenditure at the Cardiff Meeting. The general result of the year's working is that the total assets of the Society on December 31, 1901, were 31,6897. 3s. 9d., as against 31,3237. 18s. 7d. at the end of 1900. 6. Lord Wenlock, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., of Escrick Park, York, has been elected a Member of the Council to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. C. S. Mainwaring. 7. As already announced, the Society's Meeting of the present year will be held from July 5 to 11 next, under the Presidency of His Royal Highness Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, K.G., in the City of Carlisle. In the Implement Department the number of feet of Shedding (exclusive of open Ground Space) actually allotted is 11,093 feet in 339 Stands, as against 11,651 feet at Cardiff last year, 14,772 at York in 1900, 12,200 at Maidstone in 1899, and 9,781 feet in 288 Stands at the previous Meeting at Carlisle in 1880. For the Society's Silver Medals 60 entries of "New Implements" and appliances of various descriptions have been received. The detailed figures as to the entries of Live Stock, Poultry, and Produce, the lists for which do not finally close until Thursday, May 15, cannot now be stated in this Report; but the statistics will be laid before the Members at the Meeting on the 22nd instant. The Implement Department and the Dairy will be open on Saturday, July 5, 1902, at a charge for admission of 1s. each person. The judging of the Produce will also take place on that day, but the Produce Shed will not be opened to the public until Monday, July 7. The judging of Live Stock and Poultry will take place on Monday, July 7, when all Departments of the Show will be open at a charge for admission of 5s. On Tuesday and Wednesday the charge for admission will be 2s. 6d. each day, and on the last two days (Thursday and Friday) it will be 1s. each day. There will be the usual Parades of Horses and Cattle, except on the Judging Day (Monday, July 7); and the general arrangements will be similar to those of previous years. 8. The Society has now entered into complete possession of the freehold land between Willesden and Ealing which, as announced in the last Report, has been acquired for the purpose of a Permanent Showyard in the Metropolis. The work of preparing the site for the Society's Show is being actively proceeded with, and the Council have every reason to hope that, with the co-operation of the railway and other authorities, the Show of 1903 will be held on the new site at the usual time of holding the Society's Meeting, viz., the week after Ascot. The Council are highly gratified to be able to announce that His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has been graciously pleased to assent to be placed in nomination for the Presidency of the Society during the ensuing year; so that the new series of the Society's Annual Exhibitions will commence under the happiest auspices. 9. The Permanent Show Fund now stands at 28,2097. 78., contributed by 396 subscribers. Efforts, in which the cooperation of the general body of Members is invited, are now being made by the Council to obtain further subscriptions for the capital requisite to equip the site with the necessary appliances and buildings, such as permanent stabling and the more substantial structures of a showyard. 10. A Departmental Committee appointed by the Board of Agriculture to consider the question of Butter Regulations under Section 4 of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899, having presented an Interim Report, containing suggestions which, if acted upon, would, in the view of the Council, injuriously affect the interests of butter-producers in this country, the Council passed the following resolution, and ordered it to be transmitted to the President of the Board of Agriculture: The Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, while approving the limit of 16 per cent. of water suggested to be prescribed for butter by the Departmental Committee on Butter Regulations, learn with much apprehension the view of the Committee that butter containing a higher percentage of water will escape the operation of the above limitation if disclosure be made of the fact beforehand. They would specially regret the making of any Regulation which would admit of "milk-blended butter," or similar mixtures not of the true nature of butter, being sold under any description implying that they were butter, or with the word "butter" attached to them. The Council are glad to note that the Sale of Butter Regulations, issued by the Board of Agriculture on April 22 last, whilst providing that butter may not legally contain more than 16 per cent. of water, give no support to the view of the Departmental Committee that butter containing a larger percentage of water than 16 per cent. will escape the operation of the limit provided that disclosure is made to the purchaser. 11. In the Chemical Department of the Society a satisfactory increase has to be reported in the number of samples |