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GoDEBicH, Kincardine, Meafobd. — Sault Ste. Marie: 132 dollars per 
annum, with board. Owen Sound : 10 to 12 dollars per month, with board. 
CoUingwood : 12 to 18 dollars per month, with board. These places are all 
in the State of Ontario, the great agricultural State. The average daily 
■wazes are 1 to Ij dollar, farm labour being now 25 per cent, lower than it 
was five years ago. The above information I have obtained from the reports 
by United States Consuls on rates of wages, &c., published by the State 
Department last month. 
The dollar is equivalent to 4s. 2c?. 
XXI. — Report of the Senior Steward of Live-Stock on the Inter- 
national Agricultural Exhibition at Kilburn, 1879. By W. 
Wells, Esq., Senior Steward. 
The International Exhibition of the Royal Agricultural Society 
in the neighbourhood of London — at Kilburn — is over. ^Jarred, 
as its complete success undoubtedly was by the continuance of 
the relentless and exceptional weather, which, since last October, 
has made the sun an almost entire stranger to our island, and 
has already blighted our hopes of a good ingathering of our hav, 
as it is now imperilling our corn crops ; yet, in compensating 
contrast to the serious effects of the weather upon the comfort of 
the spectators, the business of the exhibition, and the financial 
results to the Society, there were many noteworthy features 
which helped to mitigate the force of these untoward circum- 
stances, and to leave many agreeable recollections of the Great 
Show of 1879. 
It is not in mortals to command success, but it is in them to 
work hard for it, and assuredly no similar undertaking ever 
had a greater measure of unceasing labour and attention bestowed 
upon it. From the moment it was decided to hold the Exhibi- 
tion in the metropolis, or as near to it as possible, every exertion 
was made to render it worthy of the occasion, worthy of the 
Society, and worthy of their Royal President — the Prince of 
Wales having graciously consented to accept again the office 
which he held ten years before at ]\Ianchester. 
With the sanction of the late, and under the auspices of the 
present Lord !Mayor, a meeting was held last summer at the 
Mansion House, and an influential Committee formed to assist 
the Society financially and otherwise. The subscriptions col- 
lected by the Committee amounted to over 8500Z., a sum below^ 
what had been anticipated, probably from an insufficient allow- 
ance having been made for the general depression in business. 
Following so closely upon the International Exhibition in 
Paris last year, it was resolved to invite foreign competition at 
Kilburn, and prizes for foreign horses to the amount of IQQl., for 
