230 The First Two Country Meetings of the 
of geology ; and Colonel Le Couteur urged the desirability of 
forming an Experimental Farm. The “ sealed award ” of the 
Judges was, as already stated, opened and read to the Meeting. 
“ On the morning of Wednesday, July 15, so early as 5 A.M. 
the approaches to Cambridge in every direction, so far as 
the eye could reach, presented one continuous line of carriages 
and vehicles of all kinds, horsemen and pedestrians ; and these 
continued to increase as the day advanced. At 6 a.m. (the hour 
of opening), Bridge Street, Sydney Street, and St. Andrews Street 
were thronged, persons crowding from all parts to the centre of 
attraction, Parker’s Piece. Immediately on the opening of the 
doors, at six o’clock, the yard became thronged with company, 
amongst whom we observed most of the nobility.” 1 
The sum realised for admission during the day was between 
1,600Z. and 1,650Z., or some 500Z. more than at Oxford, and it 
was estimated that about 25,000 people entered the Show-yard. 
By ten o’clock in the morning it became thronged with an 
immense assemblage of persons, and as it was impossible to find 
accommodation in the town for all the horses and carriages 
bringing visitors, owners were compelled to resort to the fields 
near the borough to stand their horses. 
The entries of stock in the yard numbered 337, reckoning a 
pen of sheep or pigs as one entry — if counted separately there 
were about 460 head of stock. The various classes included 47 
Shorthorns, 7 Herefords, 25 Devons, 17 “ any Breed or Cross,” 
35 Horses, 138 Sheep, 18 Pigs, and 50 entries of “ extra stock.” 
As it had been determined that no animal which had won a first 
prize at Oxford should be allowed to compete for a similar 
premium at Cambridge, the Kirkleavington Shorthorns were not 
in such strong force as at the first Meeting, but Mr. Bates com- 
pleted his triumphs by showing that it was as easy for him to 
win with a bull calf as with older animals, and he also took the 
prize for a six-year-old cow. This cow, by Belvedere from Red 
Rose 9th, was afterwards named “ Cambridge Premium Rose,” 
and became the ancestress of a tribe of cattle, long bred by 
Lord Braybrooke, almost as famous as Mr. Bates’s Duchess and 
Oxford tribes. The bull prizes in the Shorthorn class were 
awarded to Mr. Wm. Paul and Mr. R. M. Jaques ; in the 
Herefords, to the Duke of Bedford ; and in the Devons, to 
Mr. Wm. Porter and the Duke of Norfolk. In the Sheep, 
attention was divided between Shortwools and Longwools — 
between the Southdown classes, in which the prizes for rams 
Cambridge Advertiser, July 16, 1840. 
