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Prizes awarded at Cambridge, 1840 — continued. 
Class IX. — Pigs. 
Boar 
Sow 
lfl /"Mr. E. G. Barnard, M.P., Gosfield\ 
10 S0Y9. J - ’ - — 
1 Hall, near Halstead, Essex . . / 
( Mr. W. F. Hobbs, Mark’s Hall, 
Entries 
13 
Pen of 3 pigs of 
same litter, above 
4 and under 9 
months old 
n j ■ ■ • — * / 
” \ near Coggeshall, Essex 
10 
/Mr. G. W. Kirkby, Eppingbury 
1 Essex 
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On the day that the judging was going on in the Show-yard, 
more than fifty ploughs engaged in a ploughing match 1 on the 
farm of Mr. Peter Grain, on the Hills Road, and a large com- 
pany, in carriages, on horseback, or on foot, assembled to 
witness this competition and the trial of various implements in 
a field near by. The late Mr. John Hicken, of Bourton, War- 
wickshire, who was present at this and many subsequent 
Meetings, wrote before his death to say that though the ground 
was dry and hard, some of the ploughing was exceedingly well 
done, and that “ a boy of fifteen, with a pair of horses, made 
such good work with a plough with one handle, and a foot 
standard instead of a wheel, as to cause great attraction and 
general admiration.” 
In the afternoon, the Prize Essays (five in number) were 
read before a numerous company in the Law Schools, and in 
the evening upwards of 400 noblemen and gentlemen dined 
together in the magnificent hall of Trinity College, under the 
presidency of the Duke of Richmond, Earl Spencer occupying 
the vice-chair. The company also included the Dukes of Rutland 
and St. Albans ; the Marquesses of Northampton and Downshire ; 
Earls Lucan, Chichester, and Lincoln ; Viscounts Bridport and 
Neville ; Sir Robert Peel, Sir James Graham, the Vice-Chan- 
cellor of the University (Dr. Tatham), Professors Whewell, 
Buckland, and Henslow, and many others — Peers, members of 
Parliament, heads of houses, landowners, and tenant-farmers. 
In the course of the proceedings the President congratulated 
the company on the fact that since the Oxford Meeting the 
number of members had increased from 1,200 to 3,500 ; the 
Vice-Master of Trinity (Rev. John Brown) regarded with favour 
the possible establishment of a Professorship of Agriculture in 
that University ; Professors Henslow and Buckland pointed out 
the great advantages to be derived by agriculture from a study 
1 This did not form part of the Society’s proceedings, but was under the 
patronage and sanction of the Council. 
