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of the government authorities checked the trouble, 

 so that fortunately it went no farther in Hereford- 

 shire. All fairs and markets were declared sus- 

 pended during the autumn of 1865, as well as all 

 meetings of agricultural societies. It was not until 

 1868, therefore, that the Eoyal society held its next 

 meeting. 



