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following year, 1865, two classes were given to Herdwicks, which 

 brought 10 entries. 



On account of cattle plague, though Westmorland was free from 

 the disease, no agricultural shows were held in the county in 1866, 

 and in 1867 Kendal had the only agricultural show in Westmorland 

 with cattle classes, a licence having been obtained from the Lords 

 in Council ; at this show there was a shoeing competition. F. C. Ellison 

 died in 1867, and R. Parker was appointed secretary pro. tem., 

 carrying on the work till the spring of the following year, when J. 

 Swainson, junr., solicitor, took up the still honorary post of secretary. 

 In the spring horse show, 1868, the classes were for thoroughbred, 

 coaching, and cart stallions, and in the same year the remuneration 

 of the inspectors of farms was increased to 40/- each, the autumn 

 show being still held in what is now known as the cricket field. Other 

 alterations at this date were the change in the title of the Society to 

 " The Westmorland and Kendal District Agricultural Society," and 

 a promised increase of subscriptions of £80 per annum ; at the same 

 time a class for Hackneys was started, and two classes were allotted 

 to Fell sheep. The number of members of the Society in 1869 was 

 372, in which year Lady Ahce Kenlis offered prizes for butter, for 

 which there were 67 entries. A record gate was taken this year, 

 £112 gs. 6d. being received, and in the following spring £100 was 

 placed to a reserve fund, and the secretary presented with a piece 

 of plate value £2^. In 1870 the show was abandoned on account 

 of foot and mouth disease, there being 100 affected farms in the southern 

 division of the county. A charge of 6d. each was made at the gate 

 at the entire horse show in 1871, when £15 12s. 6d. was taken — the 

 prizes stiU being a silver medal in each of the three classes. In 1875, 

 in addition to the medals, a money prize of £10 for the ist and £5 

 for the second was awarded in each class, the numbers competing 

 were : coach-horse 3 entries, thoroughbreds 2 entries, and pure bred 

 cart stallions 6 entries — these prizes were not repeated. In 1876 

 the autumn show day was changed to Thursday. 



The balance in favour of the Society in 1870 was £200 3s. 6d., 

 by 1880 this balance had been absorbed and a deficit of £98 is. stood 

 in the books, so that the reserve fund of £100 had to be drawn upon 

 to that extent. 



