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THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY’S 
The business of Monday was principally confined to the in- 
spection and selection by the judges of the various implements 
for trial. The spot selected for the show-yard was at Litchurch, 
about a mile from the town ; but, from some misunderstanding 
on the part of those who had the arrangement of this de- 
partment, the piece of ground originally selected for the trial of 
implements could not be had. According to some statements, 
the council had neglected to give the owner of the land a decisive 
answer as to whether it would be required or not, and it was there- 
fore not ready ; while it was reported in other quarters, that the 
holder of the land washed to make a market by demanding a high 
price for the use of it. Whatever was the cause, it naturally 
led to much dissatisfaction among the instrument manufacturers. 
The subject was ultimately laid before the council, who did all 
that, under the circumstances, could be done ; and they engaged a 
piece of ground on the Uttoxeter road, to which the implements 
were conveyed and arranged for exhibition on the following day. 
It was the most extensive and excellent display of implements 
of husbandry of every kind and description ; but it was impossi- 
ble, from the cursory examination of a few hours, to estimate the 
comparative advantages of each, or to attempt to do justice to a 
tenth part of the ingenuity and merit displayed on the occasion. 
There were no fewer than 113 distinct stands, covered with 
every kind of agricultural implement, and a very fair majority 
of them being plain and palpable improvements. Mr. Ransome, 
of Ipswich, had no fewer than 58 separate and distinct machines ; 
Mr. Stratton, of Clarke-street, Bristol, exhibited 55 distinct 
ones ; and Mr. Dean, of Birmingham, 51. 
In the evening was the dinner given by the Mayor : some very 
interesting toasts were proposed, the best among which was 
“ Prosperity to Agriculture,” proposed by Mr. Hillyard, Presi- 
dent of the Northamptonshire Farmers’ Society. Long, long 
may the veteran be spared ! 
He said that “ it was a formidable thing for most men in the 
prime of life to address a meeting like the present, in the pre- 
sence, too, of some of the most distinguished speakers of the 
present day; but it was much more formidable to one who had 
entered into his seventy-seventh year, and who had neither the 
