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and their advantages, and dilated upon the profit and utility in 
many ways derived from keeping bees. 
Some description has now been given of each division of the 
Show specially belonging to the live-stock department. It only 
remains to offer many thanks to those who have given valuable 
assistance to the compiler of this Report — notably Mr. Dent 
Dent, Mr. Charles Howard, and Mr. Bowen Jones — and to 
express sincere regret that my term of office has come to an end. 
Bright with innumerable courtesies from colleagues, officials, 
exhibitors, and servants, with not a single unpleasant incident, 
this period of stewardship has been one of unmixed satisfaction 
and of infinite instruction. 
XXXII. — Report on the Exhibition and Trial of Implements at 
the Derby Meeting. By Robert Neville, of Butleigh Court, 
Glastonbury, Senior Steward. 
On retiring from office as Steward of Implements, I am happy 
in being able to congratulate the Society on having held a most 
successful Show this year. The weather was quite perfect. 
Not a drop of rain fell ; and dry weather, to the implement 
department especially, not only during the Show, but both 
before and after, is an untold blessing. 
The people of Derby did all in their power to make things 
go well, and they succeeded. Two tramways, both running close 
to the yard, were a material help to the public, and their dividend 
this half-year should be a good one. 
There w as an increase in the number of compound engines 
in the yard, and there can be no doubt that this form of engine 
will steadily and surely come into more general use. Up to 
now people have been well content with the performance of 
the ordinary high pressure engine, and glad at being able to 
achieve so good a result by so simple a machine ; but now that 
every one is more familiar with steam, the obvious economy of 
compound engines, and especially of late, since they have been 
so much simplified, is gradually working on the minds of steam 
users, who, as occasion offers, are almost invariably adopting 
them. It is to be hoped that the Society will before long have 
trials of compound agricultural engines, conducted so that they 
may truly compare with the Cardiff" trials. 
The Working Dairy was again a great attraction, and there 
can be no doubt that the continued efforts of the Society in this 
department have helped to awaken people to the backwardness 
