581 
Report  of  the  Senior  Steward  of  Implements. 
high  ; and  most  of  them  had  been  erected  by  the  present  tenant 
and  his  father.  They  had  been  mostly  built  as  substitutes  for 
old  ragged  thorn  fences,  were  well  done,  and  kept  in  excellent 
repair. 
The  farm,  as  a whole,  is  very  creditably  managed,  and  that, 
too,  under  apparently  very  adverse  circumstances. 
XXV. — Report  of  the  Senior  Steward  of  Implements.  By 
J.  BOWEN- JONES,  of  Ensdon  House,  Shrewsbury. 
The  valedictory  Report  of  the  retiring  Steward  necessitates 
no  lengthened  statement  from  him,  the  detailed  description  of  the- 
Miscellaneous  Implements,  and  of  the  trial  of  those  selected, 
having  been  placed  in  the  experienced  and  competent  hands  of 
Mr.  John  Coleman,  one  of  the  Judges. 
He  has  the  satisfaction  of  recording  that  the  Society’s  Exhi- 
bition at  York,  favoured  for  the  most  part  by  good  weather,  held 
on  an  excellent  site  in  admirable  condition,  and  arranged,  both 
as  regards  Implements  and  Stock,  with  great  foresight  and  judg- 
ment, proved  one  of  the  most  instructive  and  successful  meetings 
the  Society  has  ever  known. 
The  Working  Dairy,  for  the  first  time  under  the  exclusive 
management  of  the  Society,  fully  sustained  the  interest  that  for 
the  past  few  years  has  been  manifested  in  this  branch  of  British 
Agriculture.  The  competition  for  the  best  equipped  Dairy  was 
limited  to  two  entries.  The  prize  of  50/.  was  taken  by  Mr.  Eduard 
Ahlborn,  of  Hildesheim,  Germany  ; wtr'le  his  unsuccessful  oppo- 
nents, Messrs.  Bradford  and  Co.,  were  solaced  by  a silver  medal 
for  their  excellent  Butter-worker. 
The  Stewards  somewhat  reluctantly  endorsed  the  emphatic 
recommendation  of  the  Judges  in  the  award  of  nine  other  silver 
medals  for  Miscellaneous  Implements,  which  completed  the 
maximum  number  permitted  by  the  Society.  They  feel  that  a 
too  profuse  distribution  of  these  medals  will  much  diminish  the 
value  of  their  award  ; and,  while  recognising  the  merit  of  the 
inventions  receiving  such  honours  this  year,  they  can  scarcely 
imagine  all  of  them  to  be  of  equal  value  to  the  agricultural 
community. 
The  Stewards  have  to  express  their  acknowledgments  to 
the  Lord  Mayor  and  Corporation  of  York,  the  Local  Committee, 
and  the  Chairman  and  Directors  of  the  North-Eastern  Railway 
Company,  for  their  cordial  co-operation  in  promoting  the  success 
of  the  Show. 
In  rendering  an  account  of  his  Stewardship,  the  writer  desires 
