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lowing, as close and rapidly as circumstances 

 admit, so good an example. The management 

 of the Royal English Society's show, last year, 

 at Leicester — the ease and harmony of its work- 

 ing — was to me a marvelous phenomenon. The 

 grand secret of all this consists simply in the 

 final closing of all entries in proper time to allow 

 of the necessary arrangements for the placing of 

 the articles in an orderly and systematic manner. 

 Further : It has appeared to me that a longer 

 time than is ordinarily given is required to bring 

 fully out the teaching-power of our exhibitions. 

 Live stock probably could not be kept longer 

 than it usually is, without incurring an amount 

 of inconvenience, risk and expense that might 

 discourage exhibitors. But, as regards mechan- 

 ical, manuf^icturing and fine arts productions, 

 and those of the farm and garden, that is, with 

 the exception only of animals, the same reasons 

 do not apply, or, at least, only in a very inferior 

 degree, Avhile the addition of only one or two 

 days to the very contracted time usually allotted 

 the public to observe these departments, would 

 be both welcome and advantageous to all visitors. 

 I have often thought that we go to enormous 

 trouble and expense to get great crowds together 

 for a day or two, in which it is always difficult, and 



