530 Report on the Exhibition of Live Stock at Liverpool. 
the yard from all quarters. The turnstiles for the first three 
days showed a more gratifying attendance than was registered 
in the corresponding period at the Birmingham Show last year. 
But a disagreeable change was at hand. Rain fell rather heavily 
on Saturday, and doubtless kept many intending visitors in the 
house that afternoon. On Sunday and Monday, unfortunately, 
the rainfall increased, and the traffic on the latter day soon 
brought the yard into an uncomfortable state for man and beast. 
A large attendance on the concluding, or " cheap" day, was thus 
out of the question. So well, however, was the Show patronised 
in the earlier part of the Meeting that, notwithstanding the 
gloomy close, about 140,000 visitors entered the yard as com- 
pared with 163,148 at Birmingham in 1876. The admissions 
of last year were exceeded in the Society's history only by those 
at Manchester in 1869. In point of attendance, therefore, the 
Liverpool Meeting ranks amongst the highest ; and as regards 
money drawings, it has to be noted that the results are nearer 
those of Birmingham than the total admissions indicate, because 
the falling off at Liverpool was on the " cheap days." Taken 
all in all, the " Royal " Show of this year must have been grati- 
fying to the Society. It certainly was a credit to Great Britain, 
and a source of satisfaction to the inhabitants of the great com- 
mercial city in which it was held. 
Of the splendid welcome which the city and district gave the 
Society, the Hon. Wilbraham Egerton, M.P., Senior Steward 
of Live Stock, has treated more appropriately than I can. The 
Local Committee left no stone unturned to make the exhibi- 
tion a success. Their contributions to the premium list were on 
a scale of munificence hitherto unequalled. The great attractions 
which, through such liberality as this, the Society were enabled 
to hold out to owners of stock, had the effect of securing a good 
entry in a year when a comparatively poor display as to numbers 
would have surprised nobody. The unfortunate outbreak of 
cattle-plague in England last spring disturbed the arrangements 
both for the exhibition and sale of pedigree stock. Indeed, the 
Liverpool Meeting itself hung for some time in the balance. 
The dread of rinderpest in all likelihood prevented the appear- 
ance of many cattle in the yard that otherwise would have been 
sent. As it was, the entry of stock was a respectable one, and 
that of implements was very large. Horses numbered 369 ; 
cattle, 373; sheep, 411; pigs, 139 — total, 1292. This is about 
200 below the Birmingham entry, though very nearly 200 above 
the Taunton figures in 1875. At Birmingham cattle numbered 
465, or 92 more than this year ; horses in the Midland Counties 
numbered 424 as against 369 ; sheep were more numerous this 
year by 4 ; while pigs were 64 short. 
