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THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



The cross bred aheep in extra stock generally commended. 



Silver medal for the beat ahort-wooUed wether sheep in extra 

 stock, the Duke of Richmond (Southdown— Sold to Mr. King, 

 Paddington-street). 



Highly commended — J. Kent, Goodwood, (Southdown — 

 Sold to Mr. B. Spice, Croydon); Lord Walsingham (South- 

 down — Sold to Mr, W. Stimpson, "Wandsworth). 



Commended — W. King (VVest-country Down— Sold to Mr. 

 E. Collingwood, 10, Weatbourne-place, Paddingtou) ; Lord 

 Radnor (Southdown— Sold to Mr.W. Stimpson, Wandsworth). 



Silver medal for the best short-woolled ewe in extra stock, 

 Lord Walsingham (Southdown— Sold to Mr. W. Stimpson, 

 Wandsworth). 



Highly commended— W. Rigden (Southdown — Sold to Mr, 

 Pettie, Hove). 



Commended— Sir R. G. Throckmorton (Southdown); H. S. 

 Hayward, Folkiogton, Sussex (Southdown — Sold to Mr. H. 

 Dennis, Devonshire-street, Lisson Grove). 



Silver medal for the best pig in extra stock. Sir R. G. 

 Throckmorton (Berkshire — Sold to Mr. James Nichols, Horse 

 and Groom, Upper Holloway). 



Highly commended. The Prince Consort (Windsor— Sold 

 to Mr. J. Glover, Walworth-road); L. Lloyd, Monk's Orchard, 

 Bromley — (Sold to Mr. G. Greeuhaugh, Gold-street, North- 

 ampton). 



MEETINGS 01" THE MEMBERS OF THE SMITH- 

 FIELD CLUB, 



Held in the Yard during the Show-week, Lord Berners in 

 the chair. 



The Presidenf, the Vice-Presidents, the Trustees, and the 

 Hon. Secretary were re-elected. 



The names of Lord Walsingham, and C. T. Tower, Esq., 

 the present Father of the Club, were added to the list of Vice- 

 Presidents. 



Mr. Chas. Stokes was elected a Steward of cattle, long-wool 

 sheep, and pigs, in the place of Mr. Torr; and Mr. T. B. 

 Northeast a steward of short-wool sheep and cross-bred cattle, 

 in the place of Mr. Jonas Webb. 



The Showyard Committee's report having been read, recom- 

 mending, in reference to Dixon's Layers near the Angel 

 at Islington, "That if a responsible company be formed, and 

 adequate terms offered to the Club, the Club should lease 

 their exhibition for a term of not exceeding twenty-one years," 

 it was resolved — 



" That a Committee be appointed to take such steps as may 

 appear to be necessary to carry out negotiations relative 

 to the site proposed, or any other that may be offered, and to 

 report to a Special General Meeting of the Club in May next, 

 but not to enter into any contract affecting the finances of 

 the Club." 



It was ordered that such Special General Meeting be held 

 at two o'clock on the same day as the May General Meeting 

 of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, in 1860. 



It was resolved that the day of the Annual Dinner of the 

 Club be fixed for the Tuesday, instead of the Wednesday, in 

 the show week. 



Mr. Valentine Barford brought forward his motion as to 

 the unfair system now adopted of trimming sheep intended 

 for exhibition ; but, although duly seconded, the proposal was 

 not proceeded with. 



The Hon. Secretary was requested to have printed, and fur- 

 nished to each Member of the Club, the tabular sta'ement 

 that had been prepared of the number of entries in each class, 

 the amounts offered, and the prizes awarded, to enable Mem- 

 bers to judge as to any future revision of the prize-list. 



It was resolved — " That no article (excepting agricultural 

 books) exhibited in the Implement Galleries be allowed to be 

 removed during the time the show is open to the public." 



The balance-sheet, up to the Ist of December, 1859, showed 

 a balance at the bankers of £2,411 93. 2d., and in the hands 

 of the Hon. Secretary of £11 63. lid. 



It was accordingly ordered that, after the prizes and bills 

 connected with the present show have been paid, £500 of the 

 surplus annual income be invested, and to so remain till 

 wanted for current expenses, 



THE IMPLEMENT GALLERIES OF THE 

 SMITHFIELD CLUB SHOW. 



It is not our purpose to give any lengthy description 

 of the implements at the Smithfield Club Show. It is 

 sufficient to oiTer two reasons for this course. In the 

 first place we could not see them ; and in the second, 

 they are not the main feature of the show. The region 

 of Baker-street is not the most lively antl lightsome 

 of places at the best of times; but it is specially sombre 

 during November and December — fog prevails, and 

 bids defiance to any gas to disperse or illumine it ; so 

 that the task of the intelligent observer', groping 

 amongst machinery, to some of which he may have 

 been introduced for the first time, is often trying 

 enough. 



But had light been granted, space is denied. The 

 efforts of connoisseurs in art are nothing when they 

 seek, on the opening of the Royal Academy's exhibi- 

 tion, to discover the merits of many a chef iVceuvre, 

 hung hopelessly above the line, in comparison to the 

 despair of the determined reporter, who find curious 

 pieces of mechanism suspended high above reach, 

 ploughs perched upon turnip-cutters, and corn-dress- 

 ing machines upon corn-crushers. It is difficult enough 

 to form an opinion of an implement where its motions 

 can be inspected ; but it is perfectly impossible to say 

 anything with certainty of an object upon which none 

 of the senses — saving the imagination — can exercise 

 themselves. 



It formed no part of the original design of the Smith- 

 field Club to exhibit implements, or to afford space for 

 them ; and if it be considered by the makers to 

 have now become an essential part of the Christmas 

 Show, they must be prepared to unite with the 

 Club and the Public to erect a building worthy of 

 the object — that object being an exhibition of the fat- 

 tening properties of the various breeds of cattle, sheep, 

 and pigs, as well as to show to the public the mechani- 

 cal means that have been introduced to economise 

 human labour- — to increase the power of this kingdom, 

 without increasing its consumption. 



Without stopping, however, to discuss whether 

 Islington or Kensington Gore will furnish the best site 

 for such a building, it will be well just to remind the 

 progressive farmer of the number of intelligent me- 

 chanics who ai'C hourly engaged in furthering his 

 designs, smoothing his difficulties in all gradations of 

 work, from ploughing to sowing, reaping, and market- 

 ing the produce. Not unfrequently he looks in- 

 credulously upon their good intentions we know, but 

 on cool reflection he sees he has no better friends in the 

 world than the Implement Makers. 



There are Howard and Ransome, and Hornsby 

 and Ball, ready to plough the land upon the most ap- 

 proved principle ; while everybody seems ready to har- 

 row it. Coleman, Bentall, and Clay are prepared to 

 cross the inverted furrow, drag out the weeds, and 

 create a thoroughly pulverized seed-bed, into which, in 

 all possible methods, the Garretts, Hornsbys, Taskers, 

 Holmes, Priest and Woolnough, Smith and Reeves 

 are anxious to drop the seed, leaving nothing for the 

 patient husbandman except to wish for the morrow. 

 Nor is the young plant neglected. The weeds that 

 cumber its growth are cut down in the most ex- 

 peditious and effective manner by Garrett, Speight, 

 Nicholson, and Pi'iest and Woolnough. The corn 

 ripe. Burgess and Key, the Croskills, Di'ay, Cuthbert, 

 and Samuelson are waiting to mow it down at a rate 

 varying from 3s. 6d. to 5s. per acre. A host of cart and 

 waggon-makers are willing to carry it to the stack, of 

 whom the Crosskills, Busby, and Melton stand promi- 

 nently out to view ; while Oliver Maggs, with Moody's 



