The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-05 00:00:00

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF

ENGLAND.

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A Monthly Council was held at the Society'. house,
in Hanov. require, on Tuesday last, the let of August.
The following new members were elected :—Esrl of Sher.
• L'.heffitld-park, lieklieli, Sussex; Thomas A. Wilkin.
▪ Driae.;:ouse, Yorkshire ; George Lee, Frampton, Dor-
chester, Dorsetsue_re ; Samuel lielden, Centre-vale, Tad.
merden, Lancashire; :oho Maugham, Dudley, Worcester-
shire; Pennock Tigar, Grove house, Beverley, Yorkshire;
Edward Akrotd, Denton-perk, Utley, Yorkshire; John Ray,
South-gr. en, East Witham, Norfolo • Sir William B. Cook,
Bart, Wheatley hall, Yorkshire; John Davy, Uvrersby,
Market.Rasen, Lincolnshire; John Clough, Bootharo, York;
Joseph Lyne Brown, Beaumont-cote, llirton.on.H•mber;
Sir Patton Sykes. Bart., Sit dmere, Malton, Yorkshire;
Joseph Lett, Rushock, liidderninster, Worcestershire; J oha
William Dixon, Beasby, Norm Thnresby, Lincolnshire;
George Haigh, Erdington, Birmingham ; Gibbs Slows Mur-
rell, Intwoud, Norwich; Manning Prentice, High Easter,
Chelmsford ; William Martin, Scomblesley, Horncastle, Lin.
culashire.
The names of 1G candidates for election at the next meet-
ing were then read.
'FINANCE/S.—Mr. Rtymond Barker, chairman of the
Finance Committee, presented to the council the report of the
committee on the aceots..ta of the society tor the mouth just
ended, made up to the previous day; as well as their state-
ments of the funded pr .porty of the society, and the pay-
ments and liabilities, on current account, during the past
quarter. It 'motored from this report that the current cash
balance in the hands of the society's bankers in London on
the last day of July was 1,2911., and V at in the hands of
the society s local hankers at York, 1,1791.; the gross balance
amounting to 2,3791. (of which the following sums belonged
to special needs for investment, namely, arrears of subscrip-
tion, 135 t. • and life compositions, 5011.), whir, on the other
hand, it also appeared that the following were the Onion.' at
that date, on the funds of the suciety, amounting to 3,8451.,
namely :
Prises awarded at the York meeting .C1:10 0 0
Judges and esnoolting enorineer, 110.
Contracts fur works (Nohow), do.
Lectures (on London and et York)
Poavolooriclioncr at the York meeting MO 0 0
Foree•roldmanee mod indicator, do 3B 0 0
Adverto,•ecurnte (b.doonec), do.
Printing, tickets, gawps, and badges, do. in 0 0
'Warier, of secntary, clerk., and porter 177 0 0
hi iscellancous items l5 U 0

The difference between the cash in hand and the claims at
that time upon the society being 1,46-11. To meet this de.
lijeucy three courses had present. d themselves to the COM-
mitte 1. To wide% es a letter to ea h member in arrear of
subscription, and await the receipt of a supply of funds in
the ordinary course. 2. To realise the amount by sale of a
Part of the invested capital of the society at present stand-
ing in the names of the trustees of the society. 2. To apply
to Messrs. Drummond, the bankers of the society, and re•
quest them to place the sum of 1,5001. to the credit of the
society, at their usual rate of interest, For a period at three
months. This last course was unanimously adopted by the
council, on the recommendation of the Ft care Com-
mittee. Mr. Harks then proceeded to explain how this
dilsmaia had occurred in the funds of the society, after
so successful a country meeting as that just hi Id at
York. Ile stated that it had entirely arisen from the
fact that nearly one-hall of the members of the society had
omitted to pay their subseripiiiiiis tor the current year, and
that the following was the st.ite of an-ears generally at the
present date remaining unpaid to the funds of the society,
while all toe ex enditure had to he made on the foundation
that such antici, ated income would in all gold faith to
forthcoming at the respective dates of becoming due:
Arrears of Suteicriptions owing for the years !Milo 15.47 18451.
Ditto ditto 1811 to 1817 1/76f.
Ditto di to 1814 to 1817 8721.
Ditto 11.48 to 1147 36W.
Ditto for the year 1847 6lOl.
Ditto tor the year 1516 19.341/.

80131,
The council, he thought, would he fully aware that so
large a debt due to tee society a. this amount of arrears,
unpaid by no ler than 06 of their governors and 3,08 of
their members, would effectually tend to initiates the
affairs of the society so long as ouch an obstacle was allowed
to exist; and he trusted that this public announcem• nt of
the circumstance would have the effect of calling the a ten-
tion of the parties ie sneer to the circumstance, and of
imprasing upon them the serious inconvenience arising
from the omission.—The report of the Finance Committee
was then unanimously adopted.
Mr. Shelley gave notice of the following motion for the
neat monthly courcil, to be held on tee 7th of Novena
her, namely "That in future no journal of the society
be seat to a member who has not paid his subscrip-
tion for the current year; and that a lint of m.m-
bees of the ,ociety who are six months in arrear of subscrip-
tion be put up in the council room, in Hemet r square ; and
that notice in writing be sent to each member whose name
may appear on the list, giving Ili' intimation thereof."
PRIZE E,ooee. Mr. Posey, M.l'., chairman of the
Journal Committee, reported the mottoes et two essays to
which the ju 'gm had awarded the respective prizes offered
by the society. The sealed motto-papers, containing the
names of the suecssuful competitors, were handed to the pre.
sident, who opened them in the presence of the council,
when the following result was obtained : I. The prize of 201.,
for the best report on the use of lime :4e a manure, awarded
to Thomas L. Colbcck, of fist Denton, near Newcastle-
upon-Tyne. 2. The prize of 1,01., for the best report on the
pleuro-pneumonia amongst cattle, awarded to George
Waters, jun. (member of the Royal College of Veterinary
Surgeons), of St. Andrew's-hill, Cambridge.
YORK MERTLSO.—A special recommendation was re-
ceived from Messrs. Clyburn and Pat-soon, the eneineering
judges at the York meeting, that a silver medal should be
given to Mr. Richard Robinson, of Belfast, for his machinery
and apparatus for steeping, breaking, and attaching flax,
exhibited at the society's recent country meeting. This re.
commendttien was unanimously received and confirmed by
the council.

Mr. Hudson M.P., in acknowledging, as chairman, the
vote of th an ksjillilied to the local committee at York. expressed
the satitfaction it would give him to do all in his giwer to
facilitate the operations of the society at their Norwich
tn. eting next year. Letter', c nneeted with the business of
the York meeting were also received from Mr. Bates, Mr.
Milburn, Mr. Eddison, Mr. Swinford, Mr. Tyson, Mr.
Thomas, and Mr. Braithwaite,
Noitw ten MI:ETINO.—The council, on the motion of Mr.
Thomoson, agreed to the toll.iwing schedule of implement
prises for the Norwich meeting in 1849:
ileary-Ind plough C S Waggon
Light-land plough
Plough for general purposes 5 Draining tools
Paring plough
Subsoil pulverise..
Drill for general pummel— 15 Norwegian barrow ....
Corn drill
Turnip drill (on the fat) lO Cultivator, or grubber ......... I
Turnip drill (on the ridge) lO Hone hoe (on the Sat) 1
Drop drill Owed ard manure) 10 Done hoe (on the Ake)
Manure distributor (broad- llorse-rake
cast; 2 to 20 bushels per Horse wed-dibbler ......
acre)
Portable steamengine ...... ... Su harrow hand drill His work
Second hest do. do. 29 with cure)
Portable threshing machine 25 Liquid manure distributer
Corn-dressing machine lO Hay-making machine .........
Meal-grinding mill
Linseed and corn anther ... 5 Steaming apparatus
Chaff-cutter lO Silver tnedsils for misceilane-
Turnip.cutter 5 ous awards and essential
Coke breaker .............
One.herr sere
Harvest art
The council also agreed to the suggestion of Mr. Thump-
' ,hieh r' - ,eiou,ly

eon, that when an implement wk . shall have arr..— ly
pined a prize in money, shall &Rain be r. girded by the
James at any country meetinc so the best implement in its
• dame, it shall receive the silver medal (instead of money);
and should such implement, under those circumstances,
have twt, gained the silver medal, it shall be entitled, on
carrying Rif the prize the f .urth time, to the gold medal of
the society, Is the highest mark of distinction ' • a regulation,
however, wi 'ch Mr. Thompson would not have applied to
steatn.engine,.
Mr. Thomp,on gave notice, that he should move, at the
monthly counci in November, the following resolutions:-
1. That the implements in future be brought into the show-
yard one day earlier, namely, on the Wednesday instead of
the Thursday in the week pro ceding that of the meeting, in
order that the stewards and judges may be enabled to make
their arrangements for exhibition and trial with greater
completeness. 2. That the Hon. Captain Dudley Pelham,
It N., be act quested to accept the office of steward of the MI-
, 'dement-yard, ie the place of Mr. Shelly, who retires by ro-
tation.
Mr. Shaw, of Northampton, also gave notice that he should 1,
move at the same date, that in future each judge of imple-
ments shall be appointed fur two consecutive year', instead
• of a single year, as heretofore.
The discussions attendant on this arrangement cf the Imple-
ment prizes for the Norwich meeting led to interesting com-
munications of practical experience among the members pre.
sent, and to a prolonged sitting.
POTATO DISEAOE.—Lord Portman favoured the counci •
with the following statement in reference to his potato crop
in Doesetstiire :
Preaneton, July 31, lele.—On the Ist of July my gardener observed
the potatoes looking rasher (whoa, and ?ay by day found the symps
MM. Of dialyse increasing. I desired hint to dig those which were
MORI anted on the 19th and 20th. We Mural that one-half were
toe bad for the pigs to eat, and the other half sound. TM lot
isle set in, and stopped our wort. The rain weed On be
fifth, and we resumed the digging on the 25th. We SO
famed nine-tenths rotten, and re• offensive to the omen Ort I
directed them to be burieu- Ike remaining one-tenth were semi.
and I have placed them cn thy soil in lung shallow heaps, and lam
sordidly dueled them with quicklime, and covered them slightly,
loping to preserve them for food. I have heretofore tried all the
sipertmenta suggested, and have found all to be mein., except the
glen which I have now adopted, bemuse it alone has heretofore
bearishly succeeded. The disease is very bad all around me. The
*onagers who planted late in the spring have quite lost their reed
and labour, as the haulm is dead and the tubers not larger
than marbles' but those planted in January, early la
February, and in the autumn, arc more valuable, became, though
now entirely checked, they have attained an edible size, it May
happen to be tit to mg, and may be stored with lime for future 11111.
The crop le very large and fine, sad would, but for this visitation of
providence, have given a great supply of tuber.. Here we are tilling
the plots cleared of potatoes with turaips and cabbages.
(signed) roirrusx.
The council expressed to Lurd Portman their best thanks
for the favour of this communication. _

Hanoad gin

Doti,. of he: intention of calling the attention of the council
at their Naaeo,be.• monthly meeting, to the subject of local
district prizes, in cat,2'ecu°nwiththe country meetings
of the society.--Mr. Jonas
mmunicate.,,, some observations
on the value of a drop-drill reducing, by its econorocal
agency, the cost price of • turs.:.,P crop, en object alreanj
effected to so great an extent by the application of bones dis-
solved in sulphuric acid. Such • drill, however, he conceivtd
ought to be • complete and perfect drop-Jrill, dropping both
manure and seed, but net both at once: first the manure,
then earth, and then the seed.—The ltev. T. J. l'owell, of
Cantrell; offered suggestions for the more regular payment
of subscriptions.
The eounctl then adjourned, over the autumn recess, to
Tuesday, the ith of November.