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English Agricultural Society. 



Annual Country Meeting in that city, in July, 1840; and a 

 Committee lias been already appointed to hold a conference with 

 some of those gentlemen respecting the arrangements for the 

 occasion. 



The Committee feel that many of the minor inconveniences of 

 the first Meeting, arising from the novelty of the undertaking_^ 

 will no doubt be in a great measure removed or guarded against 

 by the experience already gained, and by their intrusting the 

 management of the business to the same Committee who co- 

 operated vvith the Local Committee at Oxford. 



Exhibition of Stock. 



The show of live-stock was numerous, and in most of the classes 

 there were as many superior animals as have often been exhibited 

 together before : there certainly, also, were several of a very infe- 

 rior description — but this was to be expected. One of the advan- 

 tages to be derived from an exhibition of this nature is, to show 

 to farmers and breeders of live-stock the perfections in shape and 

 quality at which they ought to aim ; and it should, therefore, be 

 no disappointment to the Society to find that some of the exhibitors 

 proved, by the animals which they brought to the show, that they 

 were at present very deficient in this knowledge. It must also be 

 admitted that, if a foreigner had come to Oxford, expecting to see 

 the best show of breeding-stock which England could produce, 

 he would have been led to form a very inadequate idea of the 

 merits of the different sorts of live-stock bred in this country : but 

 the number of excellent animals shown, and the admirable ar- 

 rangements for showing them which had been m.ade by the 

 Stev/ards, rendered the exhibition a most interesting and gra- 

 tifying sight to the thousands who came (some from great dis- 

 tances) to view it. 



There would be great difficulty in selecting any individual 

 animals for particular remark : if this were attempted it would be 

 very probable that, from the number exhibited, and from the 



