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Before I conclude this brief and imperfect Report, I must 
thank the President, my brother Stewards, and all officially con- 
nected with the Society, for their courtesy and ready help at all 
times, and I must also thank the Assistant-Stewards, who 
worked so well and so willingly, and lightened in a very great 
measure the duties of my office. 
I much regret that my four years are ended, and I shall always 
look back with real pleasure to the period of my Stewardship of 
the Royal Agricultural Society. 
XXVIII. — Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Preston, 
1885. By Jabez Tuenek, of Horsington, Horncastle. 
The Senior Stewards of Departments will doubtless in their 
valedictory addresses place before the readers of the ' Journal ' 
accounts of the accessories which combined to make the 
Country Meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of Eng- 
land at Preston so decided a success. From them may be 
gathered the record of Royal progresses, episcopal admonitions, 
guild festivities, and picturesque surroundings ; with last, but 
by no means least, of a well-furnished exchequer. To the 
Official Reporter remains the more prosaic task of presenting 
the awards of the Judges, with his comments thereon, in such 
guise as may induce the perusal of a paper so eminently unin- 
teresting to any but exhibitors, of whom, however, there are 
a goodly number. To recount this more than " thrice-told tale " 
in language which shall not be repetition, presents a difficulty 
"which increases yearly, the theme having been previously 
treated with great ability. Before entering on the domain of 
live-stock criticism, it may be remarked that the arrangements 
of the Showyard were of the perfect nature which characterises 
the management of the Royal. Yet the great extent and some- 
what elongated form of the ground caused the Yard to lack the 
compactness noticeable on many former occasions ; and lamen- 
tation was heard from wayworn visitors, one of whom remarked 
that if Royal Shows were designated by their attributes, like 
American cities, Preston would be remembered as the Yard of 
" magnificent distances." Should the Showground attain such 
dimensions in future, tramways might be made available on 
some of the main avenues ; and, in addition to exhibiting any 
improvement in a system which is becoming of such general 
application, would render aid to weary pedestrians, whose powers 
and training do not fit them for undertakings of such magnitude 
as treading the mazy circuit of such a Show as that at Preston. 
