Tour in England. 
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Class VIII. 
Sheep not qualified to compete in the forego¬ 
ing classes, 26 entries, 115 sovereigns. Messrs. 
Large, Hewer, Smith, and Wells. 
Class IX. 
Swine, 14 entries, 30 sovereigns. Messrs. 
Barnard, Umbers, Dawson, and Higgins. 
Besides these, there was a good deal of what 
was called extra stock, that could not compete 
for prizes, because entered too late, and when 
we mention the number of entries, it means only 
the persons making them, and not the number 
of animals, for these would amount, especially 
among the sheep and swine, to a dozen perhaps, 
under a single name. 
Earl Derby, Messrs. Kendell and Hegan, 
each shewed a pen of Alpacas, the tall, grace¬ 
ful South American Sheep, of the Andes, pro¬ 
ducing wool twelve inches or more in length, 
and very fine and silky. There were also some 
of the East Indian Bramin Cattle present, and 
their crosses on the Alderney, but they were 
without particular utility, and worthy of notice 
only as objects of curiosity. 
The show of seeds, grapes, and roots was 
quite respectable. One person presenting at 
least thirty varieties of wheat. The prize for 
the best kind, the Belle Vue Talavera, was 
awarded to Col. Le Couteur. He used three 
bushels of seed to the acre, and obtained a pro¬ 
duct of forty seven bushels. 
A very extensive assortment of Agricultural 
'implements were on the ground, ploughs, har¬ 
rows, drills, scarifiers, threshing machines, hay 
rakes, &c. They were of high finish, of the 
best material, and more strongly and thoroughly 
made than is usual with us, but they were 
much more complex in construction, heavy, 
unwieldly, and needlessly cumbersome and ex¬ 
pensive, and although we saw nothing that we 
could particularly recommend, as a whole, to 
be adopted in America, still an Agricultural 
mechanic, could not but on inspection, acquire 
some good ideas from the implements present, 
and it might be well worth his while, to take 
a trip across the Atlantic to do so. A cheese 
turner, however, exhibited there, would be wor¬ 
thy of introduction, it admirably suiting small 
as well as large dairies. The one present had 
eleven shelves, with room for five cheeses on a 
shelf, and by a single revolution, would turn the 
whole fifty five in a minute. The inventor stat¬ 
ed, that he could turn five hundred cheeses in 
seven minutes, arranged on such shelves; we 
shall hereafter give a drawing of it. We think 
it unnecessary to report the prizes given for im¬ 
plements, and the plowing matches, and in 
addition to these, prizes were awarded of from 
10 to 50 so vs., for written essays on various 
subjects, such as the best method of applying 
Lime, improvement of Soils, Agricultural Me¬ 
chanics, early spring feed, &c. &c., which, 
together with other communications, are publish¬ 
ed in the Journal of the Royal Society. We may 
be permitted here to add, that we consider this 
the ablest Agricultural periodical in existence. 
We were informed that the number of per¬ 
sons visiting the show yard during the four days 
of meeting were about thirty thousand. Among 
these we saw elegant and beautiful women in 
crowds, with catalogues in hand inspecting eve¬ 
ry thing, and making their comments like veri¬ 
table connoissieurs. Distinguished noblemen 
and gentlemen were present, dressed in plain 
farmer-like clothes, the cuffs of their coat sleeves 
turned up, and handling and inspecting the stock 
with as much critical nicety, as the most tho¬ 
rough going graziers and breeders. To us, the 
stout, hearty, ruddy-faced people present, were 
of themselves a very interesting show. We 
have been something of a traveller in our day, 
and seen many congregations of men, but upon 
the whole, do not hesitate to say, that so far as 
physical condition and good healthy looks are 
concerned, the farming collection at Liverpool, 
was the finest body of people that we ever view¬ 
ed asembled together. Tickets to the dinner 
were a sovereign each, it was a grand affair, and 
held beneath a pavilion, the tables rising in am¬ 
phitheatre form, from a common center. About 
three thousand persons sat down, Mr. Pusey, 
the president of the society presiding. The 
toasts were drunk with loud repeated cheers and 
hurrahs. Some of the speeches were very good, 
but generally too long and complimentary, and 
in many passages, downright fulsome. How 
the objects of such flattery could listen to them 
without being confused, we were at a loss to de¬ 
termine, but it seems the way in this country, 
and we suppose that they took it as a matter of 
course. 
The Royal Agricultural Society of England 
is in a high state of prosperity, it numbers now 
about six thousand members, (two thousand of 
which have been added the past year,) the annu¬ 
al subscription is one sovereign each, this with 
the receipts from the show yard, and donations 
from wealthy members, makes a large in¬ 
come to expend annually in premiums. We 
look upon it as one of the noblest and most exalt¬ 
ed institutions. Its aim is to cheapen, and perfect, 
and multiply the prime necessities of life, and to 
attain this object, the talents, the learning, and the 
wealth of Great Britain are lavishly bestowed, 
and the return for all these, we venture to 
say will be a thousand fold. We hope soon to 
see this liberality imitated in all its best features, 
by an American National Agricultural Society. 
What comforts, what intelligence, what happi¬ 
ness might it not be the means of introducing 
