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Re-port on the Exhibition and 
of the Society, whosoever he may be, downwards ; to the inde- 
fatigable zeal of the Secretary, to the foresight and everthought- 
fulness of the Steward of general arrangements, and to whom, 
after the experience of the last few years, it may be trusted to 
carry the operations of the Society through any reverses that may 
arise. And surely it can have been the lot of few to have 
experience of two such Showyards of wet and mud as Kilburn 
and Carlisle ; and yet a most pleasing and instructive feature at 
the latter Show was the attendance in one day of over 40,000 
people, evidently agricultural, male and female, who encountered 
all difficulties most bravely and cheerfully, resolutely intent, in 
spite of all, on seeing everything to be seen ; the moral to be 
deduced being, that the " Royal Show has not lost its attrac- 
tion for an agricultural population, and that, if its expenses are 
kept to proper limits, the Council need not fear going to 
agricultural districts. 
Trusting the few remarks I have felt called upon to make 
may be taken cum fjrano, and thanking every one with whom 
I have come in contact for their kind co-operation and for the 
leniency with which many deficiencies have been overlooked, I 
take leave of an office which has been both a pleasure and an 
instruction, bringing many new acquaintances and I hope leaving 
many new friends. 
XXXIV. — Report on the Exhibition and Trials of Implements at 
Carlisle, By Robert Neville, of Butleigh Court, Glas- 
tonbury. 
The Society's Exhibition of Implements at Carlisle may be 
considered to have been in every way most satisfactory ; for, 
although the weather during the Show was as bad as last year 
at Kilburn, the Society had the advantage of getting all the 
machinery in place while it was perfectly dry: indeed, the 
Carlisle people all agreed in saying that up to the time of open- 
ing they never remembered a longer spell of fine dry weather ; so, 
although during the Show the mud and slush painfully reminded 
one of the last terrible time in London, a good sound bottom to 
the Yard had been preserved. 
The extra charge this year for miscellaneous shedding cer- 
tainly had a most beneficial effect in reducing those exhibits, 
the usual long lines of carriages being entirely absent, and 
indeed duplicates of any description were hard to find. This 
is as it should be for an agricultural show, and agricultural 
