542 
The Plymouth Meeting. 
medals were offered for " miscellaneous " implements entered as 
" new." On the present occasion these were awarded for an im- 
provement in an instantaneous butter maker, a butter worker, a 
disintegrator, and a horse rake. In 1865 they went to a broad- 
cast seed machine, a tubular churn, semicircular pomel trees, a 
combined flax-breaking and scutching machine, a combined saw- 
ing, planing, moulding, tenoning, grooving, and boring machine, 
a cattle trough, and a rotary harrow or twitch extirpator. 
The following statement of entries for the 1890 Meeting, 
compared with those of the seven previous years, will be useful 
for purposes of record : — 
Number of 
animals in 
stockyard 
Ply- 
mouth, 
1880 
Windsor, 
1883 
Notting- 
ham, 
1888 
New- 
castle, 
1887 
Norwich. 
1886 
Preston, 
1885 
Shrews- 
bury, 
1884 
York, 
1883 
Horses 
Cattle . . 
Sheep . . 
Pigs . . 
333 
642 
571 
223 
996 
1,644 
1,109 
265 
546 
644 
537 
148 
500 
026 
513 
194 
493 
681 
446 
203 
438 
539 
433 
203 
407 
579 
490 
211 
011 
402 
412 
200 
Total . 
1,769 
4,014 
1,875 
1,833 
1,823 
1.G13 
1,087 
1,685 
Poultry . 
695 
861 
343 
405 
191 
325 
Shedding in Im- 
plement Yard (in 
feet) [Exclusive 
of o]ien ground 
space] 
Ply- 
mouth, 
1890 
Windsor, 
1889 
Notting- 
ham, 
1888 
New- 
castle, 
1887 
Norwich, 
188U 
Prestos, 
1885 
Shrews- 
bury, 
1884 
York, 
1883 
Ordinary 
Machincry-in 
motion . . 
Special shed- 
ding (includ- 
ing seeds, 
models, &c.) 
feet 
6,117 
J 1,291 
1 1,670 
feet 
10,378 
2,496 
2,728 
feet 
7,253 
1,607 
1,883 
feet 
5,508 
1,125 
1,584 
feet 
7,155 
2,017 
1,640 
feet 
8,417 
2.0G3 
1,520 
feet 
9,315 
2,035 
1,554 
feet 
9,569 
1,949 
1,618 
Total . . 
9,078 
15,602 
10,743 
8,217 
10,812 
12,000 
12,904 
13,136 
The Show. 
The Implement Department was open to the public on 
Saturday, Juno 21, and the whole yard 'from Monday, June 
23, to Friday, June 27. " The Implement Day," as the 
Saturday is termed, was marked by sunny skies and pleasant 
breezes which augured well for the success of the meeting, at 
least so far as the weather — no mean consideration — was con- 
cerned. The whole week indeed was characterised by exceedingly 
