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quantity, not price, should ever be his aim.” He laid stress 
on the necessity of not doing the slightest injury to the 
public, but on the contrary, the doing of a great and decided 
good to them. 
‘* This,” he continued, ‘‘ we have in our power, and I 
trust we shail show it in the effects of our institution ; for it 
will be of essential service to prove what breeds of cattle 
they are which give most food for man, from given quantities 
of food for animals. This is an object worthy of any Society; 
and this object, I trust, will be effected by the unremitted 
zeal, enlightened views, and active exertions of this 
Society.” 
The five subsequent Shows were also held in the Dolphin 
Yard, and it was during this time (1802) that the young 
Society lost its first President, Francis, Duke of Bedford, 
whose place was taken by his brother, John, Duke of Bedford. 
It also changed its name to that which it now holds. As 
early as the year 1800 the President had made a proposition 
that the Society should be re-constituted, and the deter- 
mination to establish it as a permanent Club was carried, 
but it was not until 1802 that the title of the “‘ Smithfield 
Club” became its permanent designation. At first the 
proposal was to limit the Club to fifty members, these were 
afterwards (1802) increased to 100, to I20 in 1804, and 
finally in 1805 its membership became unlimited as to 
numbers. 
In the same year, 1805, the Show was held at Dixon’s 
Repository, Barbican, and shortly afterwards came the 
resignation of the Club’s first Secretary and Treasurer, 
Arthur Young, Esq., who had been identified with its 
working from the commencement. It is no small distinction 
that the Club had succeeded in its earliest days in securing 
the services of men of proved experience and ability, and 
Mr. Young had already, as the first Secretary of the 
Agricultural Board, held for years a strong and recognized 
position in Agricultural circles’ Mr. John Farey succeeded 
to the office of Secretary, and Mr. Paul Giblett became 
Treasurer. 
In 1806 the Show was removed to more commodious 
premises in Mr. Sadler’s Yard, Sadler’s Wells, Goswell 
Street, where it continued to be held until 1838. For 
several years the Club’s record was one of steady progress. 
The Agricultural organs of the day had begun to give full 
accounts of its proceedings, and the attractiveness of the 
Shows was-beginning to draw the general public, the 
