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will therefore be grateful for any help which the Council 
may think fit to afford them in procuring specimens of disease 
in cattle, sheep, 6cc., and on their part they will provide all the 
means at their command for turning them to practical use, 
without losing sight of the fact that the greater part of the 
knowledge and skill which are essential to the success of 
veterinary surgeons, such as aptitude in the detection of the 
premonitory symptoms of disease, promptitude in forming an 
early diagnosis of its primary stages, and facility in devising 
methods for the effectual application of remedies, can only be 
developed by continued observation and extended practice in 
the country. 
(Signed) C. N. Newdegate, 
March, 1870. Clmirman. 
XXV. — Report on the Trials of Implements at Oxford. 
By John Coleman. 
In our report on the Bury Show in 1867, where much the same 
classes of machines were tried as at Oxford this year, the un- 
usually large entry of nearly 5000 articles is commented upon ' as 
without parallel in the annals of the Royal Agricultural Society.' 
At Oxford the Catalogue describes 7851 entries, shown by 359 
exhibitors, and occupying many miles of shedding. Such a 
collection looks well on paper ; but it is, in reality, overgrown, 
and defies the most energetic and indefatigable student who 
desires information. The evil, which is as yet small, will grow 
unless checked, and the Society is therefore giving this subject 
serious consideration. One simple way whereby the Show 
would at once be materially reduced, would be a stringent rule 
as to the exclusion of duplicates : that is to say, a maker must 
bring only one machine of precisely similar construction, and 
the same make of machines must only be shown by one firm. 
This would effectually shut out agents as exhibitors. The first 
stand in the Catalogue — that of Mr. Phillips, of Banbury — 
numbered 180 articles ; and we can say that not more than 
a dozen emanated from the exhibitor, all the rest were imple- 
ments shown by the makers themselves. One maker contributed 
a long row of winnowing machines, which appeared precisely 
alike, looked very neat, but occupied a most unnecessary area. 
At present the agricultural implements — pur et simple — con- 
stitute only a portion of the collection. It is quite evident that 
the miscellaneous department, comprising as it does so much 
that cannot be included as strictly pertaining to agriculture, 
admits of considerable reduction. The extent of this is a 
