482 Bepofl of ilie Senior Stewaixl of hiiiilements at Windsor. 
must be added 3iOZ. 15s. Qd. for Season Tickets at 10s. Qd. eacb, 58G/. 19s. Qd. 
for Day Tickets issued in books at the rate of 25 for 1/., and 680/. 19s. 9rf. 
for the Society's share of the Cheap Combination Tickets issued at 3s. each 
on the shilling days, making 14,832/. 18s. M. in all. Catalogues were sold 
to the amount of 1,098/. 17s. ; 1,117/. 17s. Qd. (by far the largest amount on 
record) was taken for admission to the grand stand, and 158/. 16s. 9f/. as 
fees for the stand at the Dairy and sales of Dairy Produce, thus raising the 
total receipts from visitors to 17,208/. 9s. M. This exceeds by 1,000/. the 
Kilburn receipts (16,214/.), when the Show was open for 10 days, and is 
only exceeded by Manchester, where there was a succession of splendid 
attendances, and the total receipts were 18,114L 
In view of the exceptional efforts which the Society had made to render 
the Show worthy of the occasion, it was impossible to hope that the receipts 
from entries and the gate-money would be sufficient to meet all the heavy 
expenditure of the Society for prizes, buildings, preparation of the ground, 
printing, compilation of catalogues, forage, Judges' fees, and the cost of 
administration. Obviously, with a Show more than twice the usual size, 
these expenses were very greatly swollen beyond the average ; so that, with 
various exceptional outgoings in connection with the Meeting, it is not sur- 
])rising that the total expenditure should have exceeded the total receipts by 
some 4,890/. 
As no detailed statement of the receipts and admissions at the Society's 
Country Meetings has been published in the Journal since 1877, it may be 
interesting to continue up to date the Tables of the receipts for each of the 
Shows from Lewes (1852) to Liverpool (1877), then given as an appendix 
to Mr. Bowen-Jones's Keport as Senior Steward of Implements at Liver- 
pool. (Vol. XIII. 2nd Series, pp. 579 et scq.) 
STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND ADMISSIONS 
AT EACH OF THE COUNTRY MEETINGS 
OF THE 
ROYAL ACJRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND 
From 1878 to 1889 inclusive. 
[These figures represent only the takings during the period of the Show 
itself, as reported by the Stewards of Finance. Sundry receipts from 
Catalogues, &c., after the Show-week are not included.] 
BRISTOL, 1878. 
Dates of Admission 
No of 
persons 
admitted 
Price of 
Admis- 
sion 
Total receipts 
from Admissions 
Charge for 
Horse-ring 
Receipts 
at Horse- 
ring 
Keccipts 
from sale of 
Catalogues 
£ d. 
£ s. 
£ «. d. 
Tuesday, July 9 . . . 
70 > 
5' 
17 10 0 
18 10 0 
Wednesday, July 10 
2,119 
5/ 
529 11 3 
1/ 
25 18 
123 10 0 
Tliursdav,"julv 11 . . 
19,223 
2/6 
2,402 17 11 
1/ 
1/ 
78 11 
195 0 0 
Friday, July 12 . . . 
22,404 
2,6 
2.800 15 0 
84 15 
123 14 0 
Saturday, July 13 . . 
48,214 
1/ 
2,351 0 6 
1 1 
47 11 
50 0 0 
Monday, July 15 . . . 
30,012 
1/ 
1,501 5 9 
l/ and /6 
14 0 
38 11 6 
Season Tickets . . . 
10,6 
669 6 0 
Total No. of Admissions 
122,042 
10,272 6 5 
250 15 
549 5 G 
Grand Total of Eeceij)ts during Bristol Meeting £11,072 6s. lid. 
' Implement Yard only open. 
