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Thompson and Avery ; Thomas Green and Son; K. Boby; Walter A. Woods ; 
Brigham and Bickerton ; Kemp, Murray, and Nicholson ; James Smith 
and Son. 
Large Bronze Medal. — Messrs. George Smith and Co. ; Stevens' Bread 
Machinery Company ; F. Helmsing and Co. ; John Gouchcr ; T. B. and R. Hunt ; 
Thomas Bradford ; G. W. Belding and Co. ; G. P. Dodge ; H. Puckering and 
Co ; Doulton and Co. ; Webb and Son ; S. S. Wilkinson ; G. C. Scrulton ; 
W. Smith ; J. W. Barrow and Co. ; J. J. Porter and Co. ; G. Bower. 
Considering the small amount of publicity given to the details 
of the proposed Show in this country, and considering also the 
inopportune time (for us) at which it was to be held, inter- 
fering so directly as it did with our own great annual Meeting at 
Worcester, the names and contributions given show clearly the 
interest taken by our breeders and machinists in such meetings, 
and their readiness to take part in them, even under the adverse 
circumstances as to the date at which the Hamburg Show was 
held. 
The Meeting at Hamburg commenced on Tuesday, the 14th 
July, and our own Show-yard, at Worcester, was opened to the 
public on Wednesday, the 15th ; thus retaining at home, without 
doubt, not only many of our farmers and our engineers, but the 
cattle and the implements which would otherwise have added 
both to the number of the visitors and of the contributions to 
the great Meeting at Hamburg. This clashing between the 
great Meetings was unfortunate no doubt to both countries ; 
but, under the circumstances, it appears to have been unavoid- 
able. It would have been unreasonable for us to expect that our 
interests and our convenience alone would be consulted in such 
an undertaking. To its success the German element was of more 
consequence and likely to contribute far more than the British ; 
and the period of the Meeting was determined accordingly. 
In Northern and Eastern Germany horses and sheep form the 
most important features in stock-farming ; — in many of the coun- 
tries on the Continent the former, indeed, come directly within the 
superintendence of the Government. The Show would have been 
deprived of its main features of interest and of benefit had these 
two classes of stock not been fully represented ; and this could not 
have been achieved had the period of the Meeting been fixed at 
either an earlier or later date. It appears that the Stud-Horses do 
not come in from the districts in which they are appointed to 
serve until the last week in June, after which a clear week was 
required to get them up into condition for the Show. On the 
other hand, it was most important that the Sheep should be 
exhibited in the wool, which the great flockmasters were un- 
willing, for obvious reasons, should remain, at that season, unshorn 
one day longer than was absolutely required by the circumstances 
