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culture as the preparation of high-class dairy products should 
not lose the fostering hand of the Society. 
The Working Dairy attracted many visitors, and the lectures 
given and illustrated daily were very successful, but an acci- 
dent to one of the attendants caused the officials much anxiety. 
It is, however, satisfactory to know that the injuries sustained 
by the unfortunate girl are not of so serious a nature as was at 
first anticipated. 
The number of visitors to the Showground was very con- 
siderable, especially on Thursday-, when nearly 50,000 passed 
the turnstiles. The view of this immense concourse when seen 
from the vantage-ground of the Grand Stand after the parade 
of horses, was one not easily to be forgotten by any one who 
happened to have lingered to give a few minutes to its con- 
sideration ; and when passing into the crowd the words of 
sentences in an unknown tongue were occasionally heard, proof 
was given that natives of the neighbouring Principality had 
eluded the vigilance of the sentries on the tower in the main 
street, and had come into England for the day. 
Having thus cursorily glanced at the different features of the 
Show of 1884, which must be considered as having proved very 
successful, it only remains for me before passing into " the 
silent land " of the Society to say good-bye to those with whom 
I have been associated in the past three years, having, like my 
predecessor, reached the end of m-y course sooner than would 
have been the case under ordinary circumstances. To those 
gentlemen, my colleagues in the different departments, I beg to 
tender my best thanks for the kindness and consideration I have 
received during my tenure of office, the remembrance of which 
will constitute one of my most pleasing recollections. I also 
desire gratefully to acknowledge the unvarying courtesy of the 
many officials of the Society, and specially would I recognise 
the valuable help of the Assistant-Stewards, Messrs. Tindall 
and Beck, to whose accurate knowledge of detail and untiring 
exertions much of the order and regularity which distinguished 
the different parades is to be attributed. 
XXI. — Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Shrewshury, 
1884. By William Housxan, Cantsfield, Kirkby Lonsdale. 
By comparison of the entries in the Live-stock Classes for the 
Show at Shrewsbury in 1845, and the numbers of animals repre- 
sented by them, with the corresponding entries and numbers in 
the Catalogue of the animals entered for exhibition at the same 
place in 1884, we shall get at a glance a fair notion of the pro- 
