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The First Two Country Meetings of the 
prizes for Sheep and Pigs were the same as at Oxford, and it 
is significant of the importance then attached to sheep-breeding, 
that the only classes for which two prizes were offered either 
at Oxford or Cambridge were those for Shearling Rams, and that 
these ram prizes were worth 30 1. for the first, and 10Z. for the 
second. 1 As at Oxford, 50 1. was set apart for prizes for “ Extra 
Stock, Implements, Roots and Seeds,” and the two prizes of 50Z. 
each for the best 14 bushels of White and Red Wheat respec- 
tively were repeated. 
The Council, including the Duke of Richmond, Earl Spencer, 
and other leading members, met at the University Arms Hotel 
on Saturday, July 11, and settled the following programme of 
the business of the week : — 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 
Tuesday, July 14, 1840. 
1. The trial of agricultural implements will take place in a field belong- 
ing to Mr. Grain, about a quarter of a mile beyond the turnpike gate, on the 
Hills Road, at ten o’clock. Near to this, on the premises of Mr. Emson 
and Mr. Grain, thrashing and dressing machines, and other implements, will 
be at work. 
2. A ploughing match will take place near the field where the imple- 
ments are to be tried ; to commence at ten o’clock. 
3. The prize essays will be read at three o’clock, by permission of the 
'Vice-Chancellor, in the law schools. 
4. The dinner in the hall of Trinity College will take place at five 
o’clock. 
Wednesday, July 15, 1840. 
1. The Show-yard will be open from six o’clock to twelve o’clock at noon, 
at 2s. 6<f. each person, and from that hour till seven p.m., at Is. each. 
2. The dinner of the members of the Society will take place in the quad- 
rangle of Downing College, at four o’clock. 
3. Members to apply for tickets for the dinner on Monday, from twelve 
to six ; on Tuesday, from eight to six ; on Wednesday, from six to twelve 
o’clock, at the Town Hall. 
4. Tickets for the Show-yard to be applied for at the booth on Parker’s 
Piece, fronting the entrance doors. 
(Signed) Richmond (President). 
Cambridge, July 11, 1840. 
N.B. — The prizes for the ploughing-match will be distributed by His 
Grace the Duke of Richmond at half-past two o’clock in the ploughing field. 
A sale by auction of stock and other articles exhibited at the Cambridge 
Meeting will take place in the Show-yard, and on Thursday morning, the 16th 
inst., at ten o’clock precisely ; entrance Is. each, the Society paying the 
auctioneer for his attendance on the occasion. 
1 The Babraham flock was then in its glory, and at the fourteenth annual 
letting, held, with a discreet eye to business, on the day before the Cambridge 
Show, Mr. Jonas Webb declined the Duke of Richmond’s offer of 100 guineas 
for one of his ram lambs. Those were, however, days of good prices generally, 
for only a week earlier the Osbaldeston hounds, which had hunted the old 
Berkeley country under the mastership of Harvey Combe, were sold at Hyde 
Park Comer, and the 13 lots, comprising 127 hounds, brought 6,511 guineas, 
or upwards of 100 guineas per couple. 
