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Entries of Live Stock and Implements. 
Shedding in Implement Yard (in feet). 
Description o t 
Shedding 
Derby, 
1906 
Dark 
Royal, 
1905 
Park 
Royal, 
1904 
Park 
Royal, 
1903 
Carlisle, 
1902 
Cardiff, 
1901 
York, 
1900 
Maid- 
stone, 
1899 
Derby, 
1881 
Ordinary 
Machinery 
Special . 
(Seeds, Models, 
&c.) 
Feet 
7,818 
2,520 
2,692 
Feet 
6,590 
1,750 
1,629 
Feet 
7,630 
2,060 
2,032 
Feet 
9,360 
2,670 
2,555 
Feet 
6,693 
2,079 
2,321 
Feet 
7,245 
2,305 
2,101 
Feet 
9,454 
2,547 
2,771 
Feet 
7,455 
2,192 
2,553 
Feet 
9,138 
2,102 
1,511 
Total . 
[Exclusive of 
open ground 
space] 
18,030 
9,969 
11,722 
14,585 
11,093 
11,651 
14,772 
12,200 
12,751 
No. of Stands. 
424 
289 
350 
456 
340 
358 
412 
395 
377 
The Table on page 130 gives a comparative statement of 
the entries at the two Derby Meetings of 1881 and 1906. 
The Show. 
As in 1905, the Show lasted four days, opening on 
Wednesday, June 27, and closing on the following Saturday, 
June 30. On the first day, which was occupied chiefly with 
the judging of live stock, rain fell for some hours in the 
morning, but happily the weather cleared in the afternoon. 
On the second day (June 28), the King honoured the Show 
with a visit. His Majesty, travelling by special train from 
London, arrived at noon at the Nottingham Road Station, 
where the Duke of Devonshire (Lord High Steward of the 
Borough) presented the Mayor of Derby (Mr. Alderman E. T. 
Ann) and a number of other representatives of the Borough 
and County. Accompanied by the Duke of Devonshire, Lord 
Colebrook, and Major Holford, His Majesty then drove in an 
open carriage from the station to the Market Place, where 
an Address from the Corporation, contained in a handsome 
casket of Royal Crown Derby China, was presented by the 
Mayor. 
His Majesty’s reply was as follows : — 
“ As you are aware, agriculture, on which so many of my subjects are 
dependent for a livelihood, has ever been a subject in which I have taken the 
warmest personal interest. I feel that exhibitions of stock and machinery, 
such as the annual show of the Royal Agricultural Society now being held in 
this borough, are of the greatest utility to the country, serving to stimulate 
agricultural progress and to impart information of the greatest service to those 
engaged in the industry.” 
The Royal party next stopped at the junction of the 
London and Osmaston roads, where the King unveiled a statue 
of Queen Victoria which had been presented to the town 
by Sir Alfred Haslam.* His Majesty reached the Showyard 
at half-past twelve, and was received at the entrance by 
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