452 Report on the Exhibition and Triab of Implements at Leech. 
of our Show-Yard ; for even this year some of the exhibitors had 
no implement in their stands that was named for this year's trial. 
Thus much I may say for the Meeting at Leeds, that since I 
have been a servant of the Society, I never saw exhibitors so 
cheerful, — a result which I attributed to the amount of business 
being done — which I understand was on a larger scale than at 
any previous meeting. 
In a financial point of view, this Meeting was eminently suc- 
cessful, the receipts for admission to the Show-yard amounting to 
9900/., whereas the average sum derived from this source for the 
22 previous years has been about 3000/.* I trust that these 
receipts may enable us to give hereafter even larger prizes for 
* This increase was entirely due to the great influx of visitors on the Thursday 
and Friday, the Is. days. It was satisfactory to remark among this great mass of 
working-people such a spirit of order and good-humour — in this respect our great 
annual gatherings certainly exercise a civilizing influence on the population. The 
machinery in particular often received thoughtful and minute attention from a 
dense ring of artizans standing quietly around, and it is not impossible that our 
agricultural mechanism may hereafter derive valuable suggestions from the inte- 
rest thus awakened. 
If we compare the Leeds and Chester Meetings, the account of admissions will 
stand as follows :— 
Leeds. 
Monday, at 
2,027 
Tuesday, 
2.S. 0(7. 
. 10,287 
Wednesday, 
2.S-. 6r?. 
. 18,823 
Thursday, 
l.v. .. 
. 73,824 
Friday, 
Is. .. 
. 40,368 
145,329 
Monday, at 
Tuesday, 
Ditto 
Wednesday, 
Thursday, 
Chester. 
2s. 6d. 
2s. 6d. 
5s. 
2s. CJ. 
Is. 
1,251 
4,827- 
3,180 
24,790 
27,726 
01,774 
Between these two cases the parallel is not perfect, in consequence of a change 
of regulations as to the first exhibition of the Live Stock ; but it appears that the 
admissions — 
At Leeds. At Chester. 
At 5s. were 2,027 .. .. 3,180 
2s. 6rf. ,, 29,110 .. .. 30,868 
Is. „ 114,192 .. .. 27,726 
The results of this Meeting in respect cf receipts and admissions will also 
be regarded with interest, in consequence of the privilege of free admission lately 
granted to the Members of the Society having there first come into operation ; it 
must, therefore, be borne in mind that these large receipts were realized in spite of 
a new regulation which tends to their decrease. 
It appears that the number of Members admitted without payment was on — 
Monday, at 5s. .. .. 204 
Tuesday, 2s. &d 358 
Wednesday, 2s. 6^. 364 
Thursday, Is 65 
Friday, \s 65 
= 147^. 15s. 
1056 
The receipts thus sacrificed by the Society are,' however, by no means a measure 
of the accommodation afforded to Members ; for when various trials of Implements 
are in progress outside the Show- Yard, subject to being delayed, postponed, and 
renewed, the value of this free power of egress and return can scarcely be over- 
eatimated.— P. IT. F. 
