190 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



My first step was to get a general idea of the whole arrange- 

 ment. I intended to spend more or less of every day in the 

 exhibition during its contuuiance, and the proper way to begin, 

 it seemed to me, would be to walk through all parts of the 

 ground, getting a clear general idea of what there was to be 

 seen. This would take about a full day. Then I could devote 

 the subsequent, days to the study of such particular parts as 

 struck me as being most worthy of it. 



The first day of the general show was to be occupied by the 

 judges in passing upon the various classes of stock. But the 

 public had been admitted to the Implement yard on Monday 

 and Tuesday, the judges' day for the stock having been 

 fixed on Wednesday. Hitherto the public had not been 

 admitted on the judges' day, except, of course, members of the 

 society and invited guests. But this year, for the first time, 

 the doors were open to outsiders, on the payment of a sover- 

 eign, or five dollars, the high price being designed to keep out 

 the crowd, and give the judges ample facilities. Eleven 

 hundred and forty-six paid the sovereign and entered, and 

 appeared to regard it as a privilege to get in at any price on 

 the judges' day, when the convenience of moving about was 

 so much greater than on the shilling days, with their crowd. 

 Here is another idea. A distinction in the prices on different 

 days, giving tiiosc who choose to pay for the privilege an oppor- 

 tunity to see to better advantage. The same is adopted in the 

 International Exhibition. 



The only place for the judges to operate was between the 

 rows of sheds. The ring, whicli is so much more convenient, 

 as it separates tlio judges from interference on the part of the 

 spectators, was disjiciised with here on account of want of 

 space to spare for that purpose. The amount of prizes olfered 

 for stock was 121,675, together with eight gold and thirty-two 

 silver medals. No less than $9,440 was offered for horned 

 cattle, of wliicli an equal amount, $1,500, was intended for 

 each, Sliortlionis, Ilcrefords and Devons, and $400 each for the 

 Sussex, Long-horned, Norfolk and Suffolk polled. North Wales 

 and South Wales, and $525 for the Channel Islands cattle, 

 $1,170 for the Scotch polled, $585 for the Highlanders, and 

 $600 for the Ayrshires. 



