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“ coloured cheese ” and “ uncoloured cheese.” In the Wool section 
it appears that “ Leicester Teg-wool,” “ Southdown Teg-wool,” 
“ Gloucester Teg-wool,” and “ Shropshire Teg-wool ” were the 
prize exhibits. 
The former Show at Warwick was held at a period of the 
Society’s history when competitions of implements for prizes 
were a great feature of the Country Meetings. In 1859, sub- 
stantial money prizes of different values were awarded for 
sixteen distinct kinds of ploughs ; for seven kinds of harrows ; 
for six kinds of cultivators, grubbers, or scarifiers ; for six 
kinds of rollers or clod-crushers ; in eight cases for appliances 
for making drains, or drain-pipes and tiles ; and for a farm 
gate. In addition, nine medals were granted in 1859 — for a 
paring plough ; a grass-mowing machine ; a kitchener ; two 
collections of agricultural plants, seeds, and grain ; an atmo- 
spheric hammer ; a dry clay brick-making machine ; a brick- 
making machine ; and a gi'anary. The Implement awards and 
exhibits generally at the Meeting of this year are the subject of 
a separate report, by Mr. T. H. Thursfield, also appearing in this 
number of the Journal ; and it will suffice, therefore, to say here 
that in 1892 prizes were awarded in eight classes of ploughs, 
and three Silver Medals were given by the Judges — for hand- 
riddles for potatoes, &c. ; a brick- and tile-making machine ; ' 
and a metal stringer. 
The Warwick Meeting of 1859 is noteworthy because the 
entries, both of implements and of live stock, were in excess of 
those of any of the score of previous Meetings which up to that 
date the Society had held. There was, however, contrary to the 
practice of the preceding six or seven years, no show of poultry 
in 1859, the Council having decided to abandon that portion of 
the display. The annual exhibition of poultry was resumed, it 
may be remembered, at Preston in 1885, since when it has been 
regularly continued. Another circumstance worth recalling, in 
connection with the former Warwick Meeting, is that in 1859 
the annual custom according to which Members of the Society 
dined together in a specially erected pavilion was abandoned. 
For several years previously this dinner had resulted in a loss 
of something like 500i. a year, and the custom was, therefore, 
departed from upon economic grounds, though it doubtless served 
a useful purpose in the early years of the Society’s existence. 
It is interesting to note that at the former Warwick 
Meeting the duties of adjudication were performed by forty-one 
Judges, whereas at this year’s Meeting the number of Judges 
was eighty-five, or more than twice as many as sufficed a gene- 
ration ago. 
