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ments, except Portable Steam Engines, carefully prepared by 
Mr. C. G. Roberts, of Haslemere, Surrey, has been published 
in the last number of the 'Journal,' and will, doubtless, be 
found useful both by farmers and manufacturers. The report 
on the trials of Portable Steam Engines has been prepared by 
the Engineer Judges, and will be published in the next number 
of the ' Journal.' 
The wet weather of the trial-week was fortunately succeeded 
by several days of- sunshine, and the Cardiff meeting, therefore, 
approached nearer to a financial success than either of its 
immediate predecessors. As an exhibition of Stock it pre- 
sented some distinctive features, which have been well portrayed 
by Mr. Henry Corbet, the Secretary of the Central Farmers' 
Club, in his Report published in the last number of the 
* Journal.' As an exposition of the prevailing character of 
the Live Stock of the neighbourhood, it must be regarded as 
successful in consequence of the large number of local exhi- 
bitors ; while the relatively small number of entries of Welsh 
cattle and sheep seem rather to indicate that the native races 
are being displaced by improved English breeds, than that their 
true importance was inadequately represented in the Show-yard. 
The competition for the Prize Cup offered by Sir Watkin 
W. VVynn, Bart., the President of the Society at the Cardiff 
Meeting, for the best managed farm in South Wales and Mon- 
mouthshire, excited the keenest interest in the district, from the 
time of the publication of the list of competitors, up to the 
announcement of the awards of the Judges, at the General 
Meeting of Members held in the Show-yard. An able report 
on the Prize and Commended Farms, written by Mr. T. Bow- 
stead, of Eden Hall, Penrith, one of the Judges, will, it is 
hoped, be carefully read by many farmers both in and outside 
the district, and thus produce beneficial results beyond the 
circle of those who were more immediately interested in the 
competition. 
The Council regret that the competition for the prizes offered 
by the Marquess of Bute and Major Picton Turbervill, for 
plans of cottages for agricultural labourers to cost not more than 
220/. per pair, and those for miners to cost not more than 90Z 
each, failed to produce a satisfactory result. No plans were 
sent in which, in the opinion of the Judges, could be built for 
