International Agricultural Exhibition at Kilburn. 557 
Shedding in Implement- Yard (in Feet). 
London. 
1879. 
Bristol. 
1878. 
Liverpool. 
1877. 
Birmingham. 
1876. 
Tampon. 
1875. 
Bedford. 
1874. 
Hull. 
1873. 
Ordinary .. 
Machinery in i 
motion . . . . I 
Seeds and Models 
16,000 
4,683 
2,220 
11,735 
2,847 
964 
12,183 
2,733 
880 
11,304 
2,492 
886 
8118 
1557 
452 
11,402 
2,585 
766 
9150 
1788 
793 
Stock- Yard. 
Horses 
815 
350 
369 
424 
234 
412 
281 
Cattle .. .. 
1,007 
443 
378 
465 
340 
403 
308 
Sheep .. .. 
841 
397 
418 
407 
359 
486 
365 
Pigs 
211 
164 
140 
203 
164 
226 
191 
Total . . 
2,874 
1,334 
1,305 
1,499 
1097 
1,527 
1145 
Brandreth Gibbs, and with articles by Mr. James Howard, 
Mr. M'Combie, Mr. Ransome, and others. It is here shown that 
the total amount of shedding in the ground extended to over 
12 miles ; the total distance to be walked by a visitor was from 
16 to 18 miles. The amount of prizes offered for horses was 
3590/. ; for cattle, 5635Z. ; for sheep and goats, 2065/. ; for pigs, 
300/. ; for wool, dairy produce, bees, provision waggon, »Scc. &c., 
1610/. more, making a total of 13,200/. 
These figures may be welcome to those visitors who, however 
desirous of seeing the Show, were so weather- and mud-bound 
that they never left the vantage ground of the sleeper-made 
main roads, and could only guess at what lay in the undiscovered 
regions right and left of them. Certainly, under the circum- 
stances, it would have been handier to have had a Showyard 
more of the dimensions of the first exhibition of the Society in 
1839, where the whole of the cattle prizes were not much more 
than half of this year's prizes for Shorthorns only, or 385/. against 
750/., while those for horses were 10/. less in amount than was 
this year given for asses, or 50/. as against 60/. 
It will be readily believed that the disappointment to the 
Council that this grand display of all most worth seeing in con- 
nexion with agriculture — all the most perfect types of the animals 
of the farm — all the latest and most ingenious kinds of machinery 
and implements — should have been to a great extent thrown 
away, was a severe one. Undoubtedly there was always felt to be 
