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Highness  was  received  by  the  Lord  Mayor  and  Corporation,  and 
proceeded  at  once  to  the  showyard.  Prince  Arthur  was  the 
guest  of  the  Corporation  at  Newsham  House,  and  on  Thursday 
drove  through  the  City  to  pay  his  second  visit  to  the  Show.  His 
Royal  Highness  honoured  the  President  and  Council  on  both 
occasions  with  his  company  at  luncheon  in  the  Royal  Pavilion. 
Before  leaving,  Prince  Arthur  expressed  the  pleasure  his  visit 
to  Liverpool  had  afforded  him,  and  referred  to  the  very  great 
interest  with  which  he  had  inspected  the  exhibits  and  the  Show- 
yard  generally. 
One  of  the  greatest  features  of  the  Show  was  the  parade  of 
200  working  hor'ses  in  their  gears  in  the  Horse  Ring,  and  the  sight 
of  this  large  enclosure,  filled  with  some  of  the  best  carthorses 
in  the  country,  will  not  be  easily  forgotten  by  those  who  were 
so  fortunate  as  to  view  the  unique  exhibition.  The  horses  were 
sent  by  the  various  team-owners  in  Liverpool,  and  doubtless 
there  is  no  other  city  in  the  world  which  could  have  produced 
such  a show  of  splendid  animals. 
As  in  the  year  1877,  when  the  Society  last  visited  Liverpool, 
the  weather  was  very  bad  on  three  days  of  the  Show,  and  un- 
doubtedly deterred  many  from  attending;  but  notwithstanding 
this,  it  is  anticipated  that  when  the  audited  accounts  are  pre- 
sented to  the  Members  at  the  General  Meeting,  it  will  be  found 
that  the  excess  of  receipts  over  expenditure  will  be  £5,482. 
The  Society  received  a most  cordial  welcome  from  the  County 
and  the  City,  and  the  Liverpool  Local  Committee,  with  the  Lord 
Mayor  at  its  head,  did  everything  possible  to  ensure  the  success 
of  the  Show.  The  active  interest  of  the  Lord  Mayor  in  everything 
connected  with  the  Society’s  visit  was  sustained  until  the  end 
of  the  Show,  on  each  day  of  w'hich  he  was  present,  accompanied 
by  the  Lady  Mayoress. 
11.  Seven  machines  competed  in  the  Trials  of  Agricultural 
Motors,  which  were  held  at  Bygrave  Farm,  Baldock,  Hertford- 
shire, from  Tuesday,  the  9th  August,  to  Monday,  the  15th  August. 
In  the  first  place,  each  motor  was  tried  with  a three-furrow 
plough  on  a five-acre  plot  of  ground.  This  was  in  no  sense  a 
plough  trial,  as  in  each  case  identical  ploughs  were  used,  the 
object  being  to  ascertain  which  was  the  best  general  purpose 
motor  for  a moderate-sized  holding,  ploughing  forming  one  of 
the  purposes  to  which  the  motor  would  be  put.  All  the  machines 
completed  their  plots,  and,  the  land  being  fairly  light,  subsequent 
trials  were  carried  out  on  heavier  land.  All  the  machines  were 
tried  Harvesting,  and  with  the  exception  of  two  machines,  each 
motor  drew  two  6-feet  selfhinding  harvesters,  all  coming  out 
of  the  trial  satisfactorily.  The  Traction  trials  on  the  road  took 
place  over  a course  of  about  12j  miles,  in  which  at  places  there 
were  some  steep  inclines.  Each  competitor  declared  what  weight 
he  would  haul,  and  had  to  make  two  circuits  of  the  course,  or  25 
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