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classes of horses being far in the ascendant, and the 

 difficulties in the way of satisfactorily deciding- the 

 awarJs was not over when the company left the ground. 

 At the time of closing the meeting (3 o'clock) , we left the 

 judges in full work, hence our prize awards are not quite 

 complete. We will endeavour to supply the deficiency 

 next week. Many very superior horses were shown, and 

 we heard the offers of high prices having been rejected, and 

 great interest existed. The immensity of Napoleon, a 

 bright bay cart horse, shown by James Robinson, Bury 

 New Road, Manchester, astonished every beholder. He 

 is 9 years old, and without being a model of perfection, 

 is a very splendid specimen of draught horse, and few, 

 if any, animals in creation can be compared to him 

 for noble grandeur. There are no less than 185 

 entries in the horse classes, besides several extras, 

 ponies, &c. — a pretty good day's work for the 

 judges : no wonder they did not finish their duties in the 

 short time allowed them. 'Tis true many were re- 

 entered for the gentlemen's classes ; still the adjudica- 

 tions had to be repeated. The class of hunting stallions 

 only mustered three, but of hunting geldings, mares, 

 fillies, and foals there was a large and good competition. 

 The classes of draught stallions and mares were well 

 filled, and the foal classes were well sustained. The 

 other draught horse classes presented nothing remarka- 

 ble to notice. It was evident at a glance where the in- 

 terest of visitors lay. The exhibition of horses was 

 crowded. The show of short-horns was exceedingly 

 good, but not ec[ual to some former occasions ; Mr. 

 Dudding, taking the first stand with high honours, 

 having won no less than seven prizes in the six classes 

 in which he exhibited. Mr. Ljnn takes second prize in 

 the aged bull class, with Great Comet, commended at 

 Canterbury. Mr. Smith's whits heifer Ella is in ex- 

 ceedingly good form, deep, full, and proportionate 

 throughout. Mr. Budding's Lady Louisa Bountiful, 

 roan, had a beautiful top, very cylindrical in form, and 

 level make. Lady Pigot honoured the show by ex- 

 hibiting, but we concluded the best animals were re- 

 served for the Yorkshire Meeting next week. The sheep 

 classes were highly respectable. Mr. Clarke, of Scop- 

 wick, obtained the great honours for rams with some 

 excellent sheep; Mr. Abraham, Mr. Dudding, Mr. lies, 

 Mr. Cartwright, and others being competitors. In the 

 pig classes were many very good animals, Mr. Richard- 

 son's two large boars in class 33 having defeated Mr. 

 Harrison's boar which took first honour at Canterbury. 

 One animal in this class was said to weigh 60 stones 

 There were several excellent animals in the small-breed 

 classes. The poultry classes were not well represented 

 in numbers. Some fine birds were shown, but nearly 

 all the show was confined to a few exhibitors in the im- 

 mediate district. 



The Implement show was very superior ; but one 

 and all complain of the paucity of sales. Time was 

 when it was no ordinary mart, but that is gone by ; and 

 the various Makers' chief business appeared to be to 

 explain the peculiarly good qualities of their implements 

 rather than to book sales. But this cannot be at all 

 surprising ; for go where you will you are sure to meet 



with a pertinacious, persevering agent, who almost com- 

 pels you to give him an order, with feelings something 

 akin to those which induce you to throw a trifle out of 

 the window to the noisy organ-grinder. Besides, the 

 buyer says, " I shall give my order to your agent, my 

 neighbour Jones," &c. ; so that the discouraged manu- 

 facturer finds that he is merely exhibiting for the benefit 

 of his agents. We did not observe any novelties of import- 

 ance worthy of remark. The trials took place chiefly on 

 Tuesday, but the continuous flow from the dense clouds 

 made it extremely uncomfortable j and Wednesday was 

 therefore taken to complete them. Wood's reaper here 

 takes precedence of Burgess and Key's. Hornsby's 

 ploughs compete against the county make (home-made 

 ploughs), and in one instance got defeated by Cooke, of 

 Lincoln. Mr. W, Foster's excellent thrashing-machine 

 takes first prize. Mr. Speight's very superior horse- 

 hoe for corn crops obtains the first honours. Mr- 

 Bentall attended personally, and took first honours with 

 his subsoil plough, his scarifier and root-pulper, as also 

 honours with his harrows and chaff-cutter. Messrs* 

 Ashby and Co. obtained first honours for their chaff- 

 cutter, hay-tedder, horse-rake, and rotating harrows. 

 Hornsby's drill appears against Coultas', which it 

 defeats. W. Hunter takes honours with harrows for 

 light land ; as do also Amies and Barford for like use. 

 The chain harrows of Hill and Co. obtain honours : they 

 were shown by Woodrooffe, of Horncastle, who has a 

 good and extensive show. Ruston, Procter and Co. ob- 

 tained first honours for their steam engine. It would, 

 however, be too invidious to point out consecu- 

 tively how each exhibitor fared ; we will let the 

 prize award speak for itself. It may not be 

 amiss just to enumerate the exhibitors who contri- 

 buted to support and enhance the interests of the show, 

 for without a show of implements these meetings would 

 now lose much of their popularity. We will here name 

 them alphabetically, as from our advertising columns 

 their addresses may be readily known : AUcock, Thos.; 

 Amies and Barford; Archer, Henry ; Ashby, T. W. and 

 Co. ; Ashley, Thos. ; Ashton, Wm. ; Baker, John 

 Barton, Wm. ; Bentall, E. H. ; Bridges, Henry 

 Brooke, Thos. ; Burn, R. S. ; Butters, Thos. ; Clarke 

 Jas. ; Cooke, Jno. ; Cooke, Wm. ; Coultas, Jas. 

 Coultas and Son ; Creasey, Henry ; (Jrisp, R. H. 

 Cuthbert, R. and Co. ; Day, John Wyatt ; Drant, Jno. 

 Forrington, Jno. ; Foster, Wm. ; Gardner, Joseph 

 Gell, Thos.; Grant and Wright; Grantham, Charles 

 Grantham, Henry; Grantham, Thos.; Green, F. 

 Grounsell, Jas.; Hodgson, John; Hunter, George 

 Hunter, William; Inman, Charles; Jackson and 

 Stothard ; Kemp, Jessie; Kendall, Jas.; Kitt- 

 mer, Benjamin; Linley, G. A. F. and Son; Lyall, 

 Thos. ; Marshall, Wm. and Robt. ; Marshall, Wm. 

 and Son; Mason, Robt.; Mawer, Geo.; Page, Ed. 

 and Co. ; Peniston, Michael ; Proctor, Wm. ; Ranby, 

 Ed,- Rawby, Wm. ; Ruston, Procter, and Co.; 

 Samuelson, B. ; Sandall, Ed. ; Seaman, Matthew ; 

 Sharp, Ed. ; Simpson, Thos., and Co. ; Smith, F. ; 

 Spight, Jno. ; Spencer, Jervis ; Spencer, Jno. ; Squires, 

 Stephen ; Thomp.son, Alex. ; Toynbee, Miles ; Trotter, 



