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place in the procession was assigned by lot, were a fair sample 
of the high quality of the rest. The men, with their white smock- 
frocks and aprons, were justly proud of them, and had decorated 
them with ribbons ; their chains and trappings bore witness to 
the same care. The Corporation of Liverpool and the London 
and North- Western Railway Company vied with each other in 
the symmetry and size of their horses, and the perfect match of 
their black and grey teams, which won well-merited applause 
from the spectators who thronged the enclosures. The selling 
value of these horses could not be put at a lower value than 
30,OOOZ. Probably no other town of the same size could show 
such a selection of draughtdiorses. 
I cannot forbear from alluding to the display of cheese and 
butter, which, owing to the vicinity of the dairy districts, was 
larger than usual. The Cheshire cheese was well represented, but 
it is a significant fact that the first prizes in that class were 
taken by a Shropshire exhibitor : this may be partly accounted 
for by the fact that so many farmers in the neighbourhood of 
Liverpool and Manchester have given up making cheese, and 
turned to the sale of milk and the feeding of stock ; and that, 
owing to the difficulty of getting skilled labour, recourse has 
been had to factories, which, while they obtain a better average 
of quality throughout a district, have not yet turned out better 
cheese than that produced on the best managed farms by the 
skilful wife or daughter of the farmer. 
It only remains for me, at the close of my duties as Steward, 
to thank the officials of the Society and my brother Stewards for 
the assistance they have afforded me on every occasion. 
23, Rutland Gate, July 26th, 1877. 
XXVII. — Report on the Exhibition of Live Stock at Liverpool. 
By W. MACDONALD, Editor of the 'North British Agri- 
culturist.' 
AMONG the many successful Country Meetings which the Royal 
Agricultural Society of England has held, the grand display in 
Newsham Park, Liverpool, on July 11th, and four succeeding 
lawful days, is destined to take a high place. In some of its 
features the exhibition was beyond precedent, and all that seemed 
wanting to make the Meeting, financially and otherwise, rival, if 
not indeed surpass, the best Show of the kind on record, was a 
continuance, over the two last days, of that cool agreeable weather 
which was happily experienced during the first three days. Up 
till Saturday the weather was favourable, and visitors flocked into 
