560 Report of the Senior Steward of Live-Stock on the 
was but little affected, to say, that these material and other 
difficulties, such as altered arrangements, unceasing applications 
from distracted exhibitors, and all the heavy extra labour entailed 
by the unlooked-for circumstances of the occasion, were met on 
the part of the officials of the Society with an amount of energy, 
patience, and resource which was worthy of all praise, and which 
was cordially recognized in the press and by the public. 
However successful were the efforts to make a good main road, 
it was found impossible, with all the planks which London could 
supply, or which, at any rate, could be got into the yard, to give 
even a tolerable access to the stands of the implement makers ; 
and as one wet day succeeded another, the question arose of ex- 
tending the time of the Exhibition. This was agreed to by the 
Council after a meeting held by the exhibitors, at which a proposal 
to extend the time for keeping open the implement department 
was carried, the closing of that department being accordingly 
deferred to Thursday the 11th; the stock department closing 
on Monday the 7th, as originally fixed. This extension of time 
was determined on in the interests of the implement makers, 
in the hope that some bright days to finish with would help to 
recoup them for losses and disappointments. Unluckily the 
pitiless rain continued, and it is to be feared that the additional 
time was scarcely more profitable to them than to the Society. 
What the financial result of the attendance, sale of catalogues, 
and admittance to the horse ring was, is given in the subjoined 
summary (p. 559). 
Up to the present year, since the establishment of the Society, 
the total amount at their Exhibitions of " Expenditure in excess 
of Receipts" has been 59,035Z., and "Receipts in excess of 
Expenditure, 27,414/. ; leaving a balance of 31,631/. on the 
wrong side, which will be increased by at least 10,000/., as 
the result of the Kilburn Exhibition. 
The Sunday services were well attended, the sermon in the 
morning on the 29th of June having been preached by the 
Dean of Westminster, and that on the 6th of July by the 
Rev. W. Lutman, Chaplain to the Lord Mayor. In the respec- 
tive afternoons the preachers were the Rev. Dr. Wiliifinis, 
Rector of Brondesbury (the parish in which the Showyard was 
situated), and the Rev. Canon Duckworth. 
One very special feature of the Exhibition must not be for- 
gotten. The novelty of the International Dairy — where were 
exhibited daily in full operation various systems of English and 
foreign butter- and cheese-making, together with a large variety 
of implements and dairy appliances — was much appreciated by 
the public, who formed each day and all daj a gallery of inte- 
rested spectators four or five deep. 
