•jl'8 Rej)ort of tho Sonior Steward of Stoch at Windsor. 
The Council of the Society, with the Avarm approval of the 
members at large, resolved from the first that the fiftieth 
Country Meeting should be celebrated in a manner worthy of the 
occasion. The gracious acceptance by Her Majesty the Queen 
of the office of President of the Society, and the consent of 
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to undertake the duties of Acting- 
President, were at once an augury and a guarantee of success. 
The list of prizes was materially increased, not only by excep- 
tional grants from the Society's funds, but also by the assistance 
of the Mansion House Fund (established by the Lord Mayor for 
the purpose of identifying the metropolis with the event, and of 
assisting to defray the exceptional expenditure in connection 
therewith), by the Windsor Local Committee, and by the various 
Live-Stock, Stud-, and Herd-book Societies throughout the King- 
dom. Her Majesty the Queen, as President of the Society, was 
pleased, moreover, to offer, in commemoration of the occasion, a 
number of gold medals to the exhibitors of the best stallions 
and the best mares in the horse classes, and to the best animals 
of each of the fifteen breeds of cattle, as well as to the First 
Prize winner in the Champion Butter-Making Competition. 
The gratification of the winners of these cherished honours was 
immensely enhanced by the fact that Her Majesty was pleased 
graciously to present each gold medal in person on the occasion 
of her first visit to the Showyard. 
As the time of the Show approached, it became evident that 
British breeders of live-stock had determined to support it in a 
manner which surpassed the most sanguine expectations. The 
statement at the top of page 549 shows the amount of prize 
money offered, with the number of entries and the number 
actually present in each section. 
The entries were largely in excess of that of any previous 
Meeting of the Society. Kilburn, when the Show was an inter- 
national one, and unusual attractions and facilities (not the 
least being the proximity of the Showyard to the great railway 
termini) were oflTered, had hitherto marked the extreme limit. 
The entries on that occasion were at least a thousand more 
than the normal average, and no one would have ventured to 
predict that Windsor, with its comparative inaccessibility from 
many parts of the country, would exceed by over eleven hun- 
dred entries the " high-water mark " of Kilburn. The statement 
at the foot of page 549 shows the entries of horses, cattle, 
sheep, and pigs at Windsor both in 1889 and in 1851, at 
Kilburn in 1879, and Battersea in 1862, and at the first 
Meeting, at Oxford, in 1839. A column is also added giving 
