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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[August, 
The immense structure in which the World’s 
Fair of 1862 is held, is in South Kensington, 
London. It is built of brick, iron and glass, 
and roofed with wood, covered with felt, and 
furnished with sky-lights. The galleries, as they 
are called, extend over nearly the whole build¬ 
ing, except the nave and transepts and domes. 
Our view presents the Eastern end; and the 
Western end is like it, having also just such a 
dome. These domes are of immense size, larger 
than the great dome of Saint Peter’s church in 
Rome, being each 160 feet in diameter, and 250 
feet high, while St. Peter’s is only 180 feet in di¬ 
ameter, and 263 feet high. They are construct¬ 
ed of glass and iron, and must resemble consid¬ 
erably the beautiful dome of the World’s Fair 
building in New-York in 1853. The domes 
stand nearly 1000 feet apart, and are connected 
by the nave which is like the body of a church, 
85 feet wide and 100 feet high, and 1200 feet 
long. At each extremity the nave is crossed by 
a transept 700 feet long, by 85 feet wide, and 100 
feet high, the domes standing at the intersection 
of the nave and transepts. The long front pre¬ 
sented in the engraving is that of the eastern 
transept. The long southern front on the left 
of the picture is 1200 feet long, and the entire 
space between it and the nave is covered; as is 
also a nearly similar space on the northern side 
of the nave. The whole area covered is about 
15 acres, and the space occupied for exhibition 
purposes, 1,300,000 feet, exclusive of the tempo¬ 
rary building, 800 feet by 200, erected on the 
northwestern corner for machinery, etc. 
It is said there are 600 miles of floor-planlc 
used, partly 6 inches and partly 7 inches wide, 
and many other curious statements are made. 
This immense building is well filled in nearly 
every department, and the managers have been 
obliged to exclude a vast number of articles, 
particularly in the British part of the exhibition. 
Had all the applicants for space from England 
alone, applying before Dec. 1st, been allowed all 
the space they wanted, it is said they alon’e 
would have required a space nearly three times 
as large as the entire structure. 
The garden and show grounds of the Royal 
Horticultural Society are directly in the rear of 
this building on the north. The Show of the 
Royal Agricultural Society, however, is consid¬ 
erably removed, being at Battersea Park, on the 
other side of the Thames River. 
Editorial Correspondence. 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY’S SHOW—HINTS, ETC. 
London, Eng., Tuesday Evening, June 24, 1SC2. 
One of the leading attractions which brought 
me across the Atlantic, and one which has 
drawn together here a large concourse of agri¬ 
culturists, not only from all parts of Great 
Britain, but from the Continent of Europe also, 
is the great meeting of the “ Royal Agricultural 
Society,” held this year in London. In consid¬ 
eration of the fact that the “ International Ex¬ 
hibition,” or “World’s Fair,” would concen¬ 
trate here an unusual number of visitors, the 
Managers of the Royal Agricultural Society 
have made strenuous efforts to get up a Show on 
a scale far surpassing all previous ones in com¬ 
pleteness and magnitude. They have succeeded 
admirably, but I suspect from what I can see 
thus far, that they are likely to be disappointed 
in the returns to be received from tickets of ad¬ 
mission. It would seem as if one such attrac¬ 
tion as the “ International Exhibition ” really 
is, would be quite enough in one season, even for 
the City of London. It is too early yet, howev¬ 
er, to judge how far the Agricultural Show will 
be overshadowed by that of art and manufacture. 
I have only time before the closing of the trans- 
Atlantic mail, to note a few things—those which 
may afford hints to the managers of our own 
Agricultural Societies. The present policy of 
the Royal Society, is to concentrate upon only one 
Department of industry annually. Thus: (1) one 
year prizes are offered only for implements for pre¬ 
paring the soil. (2) The next year the prizes are 
for harvesting implements, (3) and the third year 
for implements used in preparing the grain for 
market, and in fitting it for feeding. Last year the 
first class was on trial. This year the prizes are 
given only to animals. But though prizes are 
not offered, all varieties of implements and agri¬ 
cultural products are invited for exhibition. The 
appearance of the grounds to-day shows that 
prizes are not needed to call out exhibitors. 
The entries in the Implement Department 
alone exceed 5,000! The display is very fine, 
including every thing that can be used on the 
farm, in the orchard and garden, and in the 
farmer’s household, from a mousetrap to the 
ponderous steam plow. The Show grounds 
cover over 20 well packed acres, about half of 
which are occupied by covered stalls for farm an¬ 
imals. The latter are separately enclosed, and 
no one not directly employed about the animals 
has yet been admitted. I have not myself “pro¬ 
fessionally ” visited this enclosure, and can there¬ 
fore say nothing of it, beyond the fact that there 
are, for the animals alone, twenty five canvas-roof¬ 
ed rows of sheds, each nearly 500 feet in length, 
and I learn that they are pretty well filled with 
animals. The j udges, in three sets for each class 
of animals, have been at work all day, and to¬ 
morrow the public are invited in at a pound ster¬ 
ling (about $5) each, to see the animals and hear 
the awards. The daily admission to the imple¬ 
ment yards alone, for all of this week, is 2s. 6d. 
(about 62 cents)—a price which, with us, would 
be considered extravagant for seeing the whole 
show. Thursday the admission to the whole 
ground is to be 5s. (about $1.25); on Friday and 
