550 Eej-iorf of the Senior Steward of Siocli at Windsor. 
emphasise the developmeTit of the work of the Society, so far 
as its country Show is concerned, by stating that at Windsor, 
in 1851, ten acres of ground in the Home Park sufficed, while 
in 1889 127 acres were all little enough to do justice to the 
exhibits of every description, from the best shorthorn bull down 
or up (according to liking) to the last new thing in machinery, 
where milk went in at one end and butter came out at the 
other ! What was the space occupied at Oxford in 1839, with 
54 implements and 251 head of stock, I have no means of 
ascertaining. 
It fell to my lot to act as Senior Steward at Birmingham in 
1876. Then, too, the Show was held in a park, but it was a 
people's park, formerly owned by the Aston family, and after- 
wards acquired by the Corporation for a recreation ground — 
long may it remain so ! And now, after an interval of thirteen 
years, it is no little satisfaction to have been connected with the 
mighty Show which was held in Windsor Great Park. What 
may be in store for a younger generation no one can foretell, but 
I and my compeers may surely say — we ne'er shall look upon 
its like again. Pleasant, very pleasant, recollections crowd on 
me as I write, and the faces, well remembered, of many who 
are numbered with the majority stand out clear and sharp 
against memory's horizon. But good men and true are still 
left to us, though it may be the fashion to say of the past — 
" there were giants in those days." So there may have been, and 
I believe it was so ; but, so far as I can see, the stature is not 
decreasing. 
I will not here particularise — it would be tasteless to do so 
— yet I cannot forbear from here mentioning a number of young 
men who have now been acting for several years as Assistant 
Stewards. To them the Society, so far as the order and regu- 
larity of the Show is concerned, owes much. To the Stewards 
is given a credit for success which is due to others who, being 
out of sight, are out of mind. Some of them, if not actually 
ubiquitous, seem able to be in two places at a time ; at any 
rate, they were always in the right place, and the right men in 
it. Let me take this opportunity of thanking them for their 
indefatigable services, and of wishing them in their future lives 
the success which, so far as I can judge, is most certainly their 
due. I had the great pleasure of acting as host, on behalf of 
the Society, to a number of invited guests, representatives of 
the Highland and Agricultural Society, and of the Royal Dublin 
Society, and a very pleasant time we had at Clewer Lodge, 
where we were domiciled. I only mention this in connection 
with the above. They said to me, "Tell us how it is that 
