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and of the required length, divided in the centre by a partition, 

 which reached to their top and extended their whole lengthy 

 and on either side of this partition stalls, ten feet square, were 

 formed with boarded sides, about four and one-half feet high, 

 to hold one animal. These sheds were covered with canvas, as 

 were all the other buildings, except a few of the largest. 



One cattle ring was sufficient, as it being the home-county of 

 the Short-Horns, the other breeds were represented by a very 

 small number of animals. In the same way among horses, 

 the hunters so largely predominated that one ring sufficed. 



At the entrance several self-registering turn-styles were 

 placed, and each visitor was notified, by a conspicuous sign, to 

 enter through one or the other style according to the kind of 

 ticket that he possessed. This, besides being a precaution 

 against dishonesty, was also the means of readily recording 

 the number of visitors at the Show. 



The agricultural implements, road-engines and other portable 

 steam engines, were the only articles not under cover, and 

 even some of these were provided with shelter ; all live stock 

 and other articles were in covered sheds. At the Yorkshire 

 Show a number of closed boxes were provided for horses, and 

 also a row of boxes with open fronts. All the horse boxes and 

 sheds were here arranged with the fence enclosing the grounds 

 for one side. 



Let me now speak of the Highland and Agricultural Socie- 

 ty's Sliow, more particularly in those respects wherein it differs 

 from the Yorkshire. Much of what I have already said will 

 also apply to the former. 



All horses, except brood mares with foal by their side, were 

 shown in stalls arranged with the heads towfirds the high feiice 

 which enclosed the Show grounds, and with a passage about 

 eight feet wide behind the animals, under the same cover; 

 this was a close shed, and the fact that there were two hundred 

 and ninety-seven horses entered for exhibition will give an 

 idea of the length of shed required. The boxes for the brood 

 mares were arranged in the line of stalls and were about the 

 width of two stalls and length of one, the fronts being formed 



