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Hie Lincoln Show, 1907. 
long journeys many of the competitors made to be present. 
The shoeing done in both classes was an improvement on 
former years. The Judges were pleased to notice the better 
preparation of the foot, so essential to good shoeing. Cases 
of mutilation (paring out the sole, and cutting the frog) were 
very rare. Then, again, the shoes were better made, fitted, 
and nailed on than formerly, showing an all-round improve- 
ment, not only due to the instruction received by shoeing 
smiths in many counties, but by competitions held at the 
Royal and other Agricultural Societies. 
In reviewing the general results, it is pleasing to record 
the complete success of the Lincoln Show, the achievement 
of which was greatly assisted by the efforts of the Corporation, 
the Local Committee, and the Lincolnshire Agricultural Society, 
who did everything in their power to make the visit of the 
Society as pleasant as possible. At the General Meeting of 
Members held in the Showyard, the following resolution was 
unanimously passed : “ That the best thanks of the Society are 
due and are hereby tendered to the Mayor and Corporation 
of Lincoln for their cordial reception of the Society.” In 
moving that resolution, Mr. Cornwallis recalled the fact that 
while it was over fifty years since they were in Lincoln before, 
they had with them that day their Town Clerk, Mr. J. J. Tweed, 
who was Mayor of the City on the occasion of the Society’s 
previous visit in 1854. 
Concerning the 1854 meeting it is reported that “ A 
peculiar international interest was given to the proceedings 
by the presence of a body of gentlemen deputed specially 
to attend the meeting by His Majesty the Emperor of the 
French as a mark of his respect towards the Society and the 
agriculturists of the Kingdom.”^ 
S This year a party of French agriculturists — Members of the 
Association de I’Ordre National du Merite Agricole — and a 
number of Swedish agriculturists attended the Show, at the 
conclusion of which arrangements were made for both parties 
to visit some of the principal farms and breeding establish- 
ments in England, including the Royal farms at Windsor and 
Sandringham. 
Thomas McRow. 
16 Bedford Square, London, W.C. 
Journal R.A.S.B., 1854, Appendix, page lx. 
