Befort of the Senior Steward of Stoch at Windsor. 551 
your great maclaine works so smoothly ; we only see a very 
small number of Stewards." This was soon explained by the 
presence of as many of the Assistant Stewards as I could get 
together that same evening at short notice round our dinner 
table ; and this, by a very easy and natural transition, leads me 
on to the Honorary Director, the organiser of all this successful 
working. 
I remember well, when writing my last report in 187G, 
saying, " Worthily has fallen upon the shoulders of Mr. Jacob 
Wilson the mantle of Sir Brandreth Gibbs," then, alas ! too 
soon to be taken from us. And now, if I may presume to 
make myself the mouthpiece of Sir Jacob Wilson's colleagues 
on the Council, may I be allowed to say how very heartily we 
congratulate him on the honour conferred on him by our Queen ? 
I could easily say more, but I forbear. I would only add — and 
this very seriously and sincerely — may Sir Jacob Wilson long 
continue to bear the distinction so deservedly conferred on him ! 
In the expression of this wish I know I have the hearty sym- 
pathy of the agricultural community throughout the civilised 
world. 
One more point and I have done. On all sides one hears 
said of the late Show, " What a success ! What a pot of money 
you must have made ! What will you do with it all ? What 
whacking big prizes you'll have to give next year to get rid of 
it ! " " There is nothing so successful as success ; " it ivas a suc- 
cess, and a right good bumper too. But success is not by any 
means to be measured by the financial result — and, in point of 
fact, the cost of the Show exceeded the income. We knew 
beforehand this would be so. It was the Jubilee year of the 
Society, and it was thought right — and I maintain emphatically 
it was right — that everything should be done on a scale in pro- 
portion to the occasion. The Queen was to be our President, 
the Show was to be held in Windsor Park. The number of 
our members had recently increased by close on 2,000, and we 
had the year before at Nottingham been 4,000Z. into pocket. 
We had no expectation that the number of visitors to the Show 
would be in proportion to the vast necessary expenditure, for we 
could not hope to tap the London millions ; and it was just as 
well we did not, for the raUway companies, whose resources, as 
it was, were taxed to their utmost limit, would probably have 
broken down under the strain, more especially as the Show was 
held the week after Ascot. 
I feel satisfied, knowing as I do how things were looked after, 
that no money was wasted, though it was the Jubilee Show, but 
that, with very few exceptions of a trifling character, the Society 
