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always attended them, but as a whole, when the extent and 

 relative merits of the stock are considered, the extent, value 

 and efficiency of the agricultural implements and the attraction 

 added to it by the exhibition of foreign stock of such variety 

 and high quality, it surpasses by far in interest and importance 

 any of its predecessors. 



Strange to say, that in the great city of London, at a time 

 when an unusual number of strangers were flocking thither, 

 with weather as fine as London weather ever is, the receipts 

 fell short of the expenditures to the extent of about $15,000. 

 The whole cost amounted to about 875,000. The aggregate 

 receipts amounted to only about 860,000. Some of the items 

 of cost were as follows. The show yard cost 822,500. Of this 

 the horse stalls cost about twenty dollars apiece. The prizes 

 for stock and the medals awarded amounted to $20,000. The 

 forage and straw bill amounted to 810,000. The society had to 

 pay about 83,000 for the use of land for steam ploughing. It 

 seemed to us to be an enormous bill. The cost of police was 

 about 83,000, and so on. It is a pretty large sum to stand on 

 the wrong side of the society's books, but the farmers of 

 England are rich. The exhibition afforded them one of the 

 finest markets in the world, which for the great stock breeders 

 and implement makers is a matter of so much importance that 

 the loss of a few thousand dollars to the society is a matter of 

 very little consequence. As an instance of the great opportu- 

 nity such exhibitions give both to farmers and the manufac- 

 turers of agricultural implements, it may be stated that Fowler, 

 the implement maker, sold steam cultivating machinery to the 

 amount of 870,000, at this show, while the Howards, equally 

 noted, sold some fourteen or fifteen machines which must have 

 amounted to nearly as much more. Many sheep and other 

 animals were sold at enormous prices, some to go to Australia, 

 and others to other parts of the world. 



And now for a walk about London. Think of a population 

 of three millions ! Many a kingdom on the continent contains 

 no more. The British colonics of America at the time of the 

 revolution had but about " throe millions of people armed in 

 the holy cause of liberty." The State of Massachusetts in 1850 

 contained a total of less than one million, and in 18G0 but a 

 little over. And yet here arc three millions crowded into a 



