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The Cambridge Meeting , 1894. 
The Show-Ground. 
Contrary to wliat is often of necessity the case, a site was 
found for the Show within the limits of the town. The place 
selected was an open area of sixty-four acres extending between 
the grounds of Jesus College and the banks of the river Cam. 
As may be seen from the plan on the opposite page, the Sur- 
veyor had an awkwardly shaped piece of ground to deal with. 
The main features of the arrangement were made dependent on 
a public road — Victoria Avenue — which the municipal authorities 
temporarily closed to traffic. Passing into the Showyard at the 
chief entrance the visitor found that the display of implements 
was grouped on the right-hand side of this road, whilst all the 
live stock were collected on the left-hand side. A much- 
appreciated innovation, due to the Honorary Director, was the 
placing of finger-posts at the junctions of the main avenues. 
The locomotion of visitors was further facilitated by the display, 
at suitable conspicuous places, of large coloured plans of the 
Showyard. 
Entries. 
The entries of live stock at Cambridge were made under 
new conditions, which render it impossible to institute any fair 
comparisons between the numbers of entries this year and those 
in previous years. After 1890 the entries of live stock by an 
individual exhibitor were restricted to three in any one class, 
and for the Cambridge Meeting the number was reduced to 
two. On account, moreover, of the prevalence of swine fever, 
the Council on May 2, 1894, decided 1 that no entries of pigs 
should be accepted, and accordingly this section of the Show 
was entirely suspended. Notwithstanding these drawbacks, the 
total entries of stock, as will be seen from the table on p. 424, 
exceeded those at Warwick in 1892, and at Plymouth in 1890. 
This was largely due to the capital entry of horses, which has only 
been surpassed twice in the last ten years, namely, at Windsor 
in 1889, and at Doncaster in 1891. 
The Implement Yard was remarkably well filled, the total 
extent of shedding being, with the exception of the Jubilee 
Meeting at Windsor, the largest of the last ten years. 
See this Volume of the Journal (Part II.), Appendix, p. lxi. 
