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THE VETERINARIAN, AUGUST 1 , 1860. 
[Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ue quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
THE MEETING OE THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The annual meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society, 
which has just been brought to a close in the far-famed 
county of Kent, has in some respects proved less successful 
than many that have gone before it. Several circumstances 
combined to produce such a result, the chief perhaps 
being the situation of the place—Canterbury—in which 
the meeting was held. A writer in one of our periodicals 
has described it as “ a land’s-end place, like the Irishman’s 
home, a long way from everywhere.” True it is that the 
greater part of the exhibitors of stock incurred no little risk, 
and were put to much additional trouble, in having their 
animals conveyed through London to the south of the 
Thames, for want of a connecting line of railway; and that 
others abstained from exhibiting, rather than encounter the 
difficulty. The same cause operated also in diminishing the 
number of visitors from distant parts, so that the pecuniary 
returns fell far below any of late years; nor can it be said 
that the Kentish people took that lively interest in the meet¬ 
ing which had been justly anticipated. 
There were also other elements of non-success, and 
among them must be named the much to be regretted differ¬ 
ence which had arisen between the Council of the Society 
and several of the principal manufacturers of implements, which 
led them to withhold the sending of the productions of their 
skill and industry to the meeting. To those who have the 
best interests of agriculture and its sister sciences at heart, it 
was painful to witness this estrangement, and to miss the 
presence of familiar friends. We have good hope, however, 
that this difference is in a fair way of being adjusted, and 
that long ere next year’s meeting takes place, we shall have 
