556 Report of the Senior Steward of Live-Stock on the 
cattle to over 2000?., with a proportion also for sheep were 
accordingly offered. The entries for horses were fairly numerous, 
59 in all. The characteristics of the various breeds were inter- 
esting, and will, with those of the cattle and sheep, be noticed 
in detail in the stock reports. Cattle were not sent in any 
number ; there were only 57 entries. The delay, and probably 
the anticipated expense of the quarantine regulations, though in 
fact the expense was borne by the Society, were obstructions of 
too serious a nature. A good display of some of the more pro- 
minent foreign breeds would have been specially interesting at 
this moment when attention is being so much drawn to milk v. 
beef ; and even as meat producers the Charolais would have 
shown well by the side of our beefiest races. In sheep, the 
Merinos of France and Spain were represented. 
The international character of the Exhibition was further 
maintained by prizes being offered for foreign hops, corn, wool, 
butter, cheese, hams, bacon, and preserved meat ; prizes also 
being respectively given for American or European fresh meat 
found to be in the best condition after having travelled at least 
1000 miles, or which had been slaughtered not less than fourteen 
days. 
The award of the prize of 50/., with the gold medal of the 
Society, offered for " the best waggon for conveying perishable 
goods, meat, poultry, fish, <Scc., &c., by rail, at a low temperature, 
a journey of 500 miles," to the " Swansea Waggon Co.," became 
the subject of legal contention by the only other competitor. 
Colonel Mann, whose motion, however, before the Master of the 
Rolls, was refused with costs. The temperature of the waggon 
to which the prize was awarded, had preserved an average of 
about 39 degrees, or nearly 10 degrees less than that of the com- 
peting waggon, which was itself commended for its principles 
of construction and finish. 
These large foreign and other unwonted additions to the 
ordinary contents of the Showyard — themselves greatly in excess 
of those at any previous exhibition — necessitated a considerable 
increase in the size of the ground to be selected, and the 103 
acres hired from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners were no nrvore 
than sufficient for the purpose. Some idea of the enormous 
scale of the Showyard and its contents may be gathered from 
the following statement (p. 555) of the shedding required for the 
implement yard alone, and of the entries in the stock yard. 
For details of the Showyard, extremely interesting in them- 
selves, but too long to incorporate in a general sketch, the 
reader is referred to the valuable ' Illustrated Guide to the 
Royal Agricultural Society's Metropolitan International Exhi- 
bition,' edited by Mr. Kains-Jackson, with a preface by Sir 
