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The Farm Prize Competition of 1892. 
Judges, to thank the Stewards of Implements, Mr. Percy 
Crutchley and Mr. S. Rowlandson, for their kind attention and 
guidance, and also the exhibitors for their courtesy and con- 
sideration. I have myself also to acknowledge, most fully and 
cordially, the very valuable assistance I have received from 
Mr. F. S. Courtney, the Engineer, both at the time of the 
Meeting, and also in connection with this report. 
Farmers in bad times are not prone to invest in implements 
if they can do without them. I was, however, pleased to learn 
from many exhibitors that the Show had been a successful one 
for them from a business point of view, and I trust the Society 
and exhibitors may meet many times as pleasantly and success- 
fully as at Warwick in 1892, 
Thos. H. Thursfield. 
THE FARM PRIZE COMPETITION OF 1892 . 
The Local Committee for the Warwick Meeting of the Royal 
Agricultural Society, continuing the custom of previous years, 
offered this year the sum of 300L in prizes for the best kept 
farms in that county, under the conditions given below : — 
Class I . — For the best managed arable and grass farm of over 250 acres, 
of which not less than a third shall be arable. First Prize, 801 . ; Second 
Prize, 40/. ; Third Prize, 20/. 
Class II . — For the best managed arable and grass farm of over 150 acres, 
and not exceeding 250 acres, of which not less than one-third shall be arable. 
First Prize, CO/. ; Second Prize, 40/. 
Class III . — For the best managed arable and grass farm of over 50 acres, 
and not exceeding 150 acres. First Prize, 40/. ; Second Prize, 20/. 
Warwickshire, to the boundaries of which this competition 
was limited, may justly claim to be one of the most interesting 
counties in England. Renowned in literary history beyond any 
other region on the surface of the globe as the native county 
of Shakespeare, 
For the man of all men was a Warwickshire man, 
there is hardly a town within its borders whose name is not 
writ large in “ our rough island story.” Rich, however, as it 
is in antiquarian and sentimental interest, it is not less promi- 
nent as a centre of the many-sided activity of modern life. 
Geographically the “ heart of England,” commercially it is, as 
far as some important industries are concerned, its brain. In 
point of natural beauty and advantages, Warwickshire, as a 
