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XX VI II. — Report on the Exhibition of Implements at Liverpool. 
By J. BoWEN JONES, of Ensdon House, Shrewsbury (Senior 
Steward). 
The task devolving upon the Senior Steward of Implements 
this year is comparatively an easy one, for accompanying his 
brief Report is that of Mr. Hannam, the official Reporter, 
specially appointed by the Council to enter into a detailed 
description of the more important implements exhibited.* 
The reminiscences of the past Exhibition of the Society at 
Liverpool are, with one sad exception, of a most agreeable 
nature. They recall with pleasure — 
1st. The co-operation of an efficient and hardworking Local 
Committee, with an extremely well-selected and energetic Chair- 
man, Mr. Alderman Hubback, whose sole aim was to promote 
the interests and facilitate the arrangements of the Society. 
2nd. An excellent, if somewhat scattered, showground at 
Newsham Park, within' close proximity to the town of Liverpool, 
and easy of access either by road or rail. 
3rd. A warm welcome and generous display of hospitality 
dispensed to the officials of the Society by the Mayor and other 
local authorities, as well as a cordial reception from the inhabi- 
tants, of the important maritime borough of Liverpool. 
4th. A most satisfactory meeting of the Society, whether 
viewed from its material or financial aspect. 
Comparisons are ofttimes deprecated, and are not always 
altogether trustworthy ; still the following summary (p. 577) of 
present and past entries in the Implement department cannot 
prove otherwise than satisfactory, more especially when it is 
borne in mind that the exhibition of duplicates is now pro- 
hibited and that of non-agricultural exhibits is discouraged. 
The comparison between the Exhibition of Implements in 
Liverpool this year and that of the third Show of the Society, 
which was held there in the year 1841 is interesting and 
surprising : a double row of shedding on the side of a 7-acre 
field then sufficing for all the requirements of manufacturers ; 
and is it not a fair assumption that the small beginning of 
the Royal Agricultural Society on that occasion has been, in no 
inconsiderable degree, instrumental in developing thus rapidly 
the high state of perfection attained by agricultural machinery, 
and the concomitant advantages derived therefrom by the tillers 
of the soil ? 
The Implement Show at Liverpool marks a period of interest 
* Mr, Hannam' s illness has unfortunately necessitated the postponement of the 
publication of his Report. — Edit. 
