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were taken by the Duke of Richmond and Mr. Thomas Crisp, 
of Gedgrave, Suffolk, and those for ewes by Mr. Jonas Webb, of 
Babraham ; and the Leicesters, in which the prizes went to 
sheep of the Dishley breed shown by Mr. S. Bennet, Messrs. 
T. E. and W. Pawlett, and Mr. Thos. Inskip. 
The implement exhibitors were 31 in number, and amongst 
them were thp names of Messrs. Ransome and Co., Garrett, 
Crosskill, Howard, Woods (Stowmarket), Hornsby, and Smyth 
(Peasenhall). A prize of 20 sovs. had been offered for a cheap 
and effective gorse-crushing machine ; but the Judges made no 
award, as they did not consider the conditions were fulfilled by 
any one of the three competing machines. No other prize was 
offered for implements at this Meeting, but the Society’s 
“ honorary rewards ” were given to Mr. Beart, of Godmanchester, 
for a tile-making machine ; to Mr. Grounsell, of Louth, for an 
improvement in his dropping-drill ; to Messrs. Garrett, for a 
corn and turnip drill ; to Mr. Woods, for a barley roller ; to Mr. 
Crosskill, for a clod-crushing roller and a liquid manure cart ; 
to Mr. Wedlake, for a corn and stubble rake ; and to Mr. Hannam, 
of Dorchester, for a skeleton harvest-cart. In justice, however, 
to the exhibitors, who had sent from various quarters li such a 
selection of implements as, beyond controversy, were never before 
collected in one Show-yard,” the Judges also particularised others, 
“ which, although on this occasion they were unrewarded, yet are 
not the less entitled to notice.” Amongst these was the collec- 
tion of machinery shown by Messrs. Ransome, whose “ bank of 
ploughs (86 varieties) were arranged and elevated on planks to 
the height of at least twenty feet, and struck the eye of the 
beholder as he entered the yard ” ; the turnip-cutter of Messrs. 
Gardner & Hart ; Messrs. Bond, Turner, & Co.’s cake- 
crusher, &c. 
In the afternoon, the Duke of Richmond, as President, took 
the chair at the great dinner of the Society, which was held in 
a pavilion erected, at a cost of about 1,300Z., in the quadrangle 
of Downing College. The tables were arranged (as at Oxford) 
in the form of an amphitheatre, so that every one was seated 
with his face towards the raised platform occupied by the Presi- 
dent, Vice-Presidents, and Council, behind which was a gallery 
filled with ladies. 
The papers of the period are full of details of this dinner, 
which they seem to have regarded as the feature of the Meeting 
most worthy of record, the show itself being dealt with in some- 
what cursory fashion. None but members had the privilege of 
buying tickets, and “ to prevent members who cannot be pre- 
sent themselves selling or giving them to their friends,” tickets 
