614 Report of the Senior Steward of Implements at Reading. 
view of future trials, it may not be dispersed, but be carefully 
preserved. 
In taking leave of my office, I beg to offer a few concluding 
remarks with reference to the Reading Show. 
To the Judges of the Hay-Dryers and Miscellaneous Articles 
respectively, 1 shall leave the duty of making their own Report. 
It belongs, however, to my province to express my high sense of 
the value to the Society of their services. 
If I particularise the Judges of the Hay-Dryers it is because 
their duties extended over a period of several weeks, and being 
connected with a subject entirely new, demanded an attention 
to the preliminaries of trial which was somewhat unusual. All 
I can say is, that it is fortunate that so important a trial has 
been entrusted to Judges of such eminence, whose Report will 
be read with confidence by all who know them. 
Under the head of Miscellaneous Articles, the Trials in the 
Society's Working Dairy are included. The development of the 
Dairy productions in the country is an object well worthy of the 
attention which the Society has now for some years devoted to 
the subject. There does not appear to be any serious danger of 
competition from abroad for any articles of agricultural produce 
of first quality, and in no direction is this more the case than 
with regard to articles made in the dairy. The Society, having 
had this in view, incurred great expense in preparing for the 
trials of Cream Separators. Although there were ten entries, 
only four came to trial. Good reasons may have existed for 
their non-appearance, still the causes were not within the control 
of the Society, and the expense of preparation of a building for 
implements entered for trial which did not appear ought not, 
in my opinion, to be borne by the Society. Such a possibility 
should be guarded against at future Shows. 
The Show-ground was all that could be desired, and much 
credit is due to the Local Committee for the care with which 
every preparation, both in the Showyard and elsewhere, was 
made for the Society. The Mayor and Corporation of Reading 
did all that collective and individual courtesy and hard work 
could accomplish to make the Meeting agreeable and useful. 
The inhabitants vied with them in their honourable reception 
of the Society. 
If the weather did not altogether smile on us, there was 
universal sunshine everywhere but aloft. 
In retiring from my office, I resign the Senior Stewardship into 
the far more efficient hands of Mr. Bowen Jones, my fellow- 
worker for three years, and I congratulate him in having as a 
colleague Lord Moreton, the most vigilant of Stewards, as he 
is one of the most rising agriculturists of the day. 
