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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
184 1, at the Liverpool meeting, that the first amazing inno¬ 
vation in agricultural science was exhibited—a portable 
steam-engine for thrashing corn. Twenty years only have 
elapsed since that time, and the catalogue of 1861 occupies 
350 pages, mainly with descriptions of 5000 agricultural 
implements, many of them of very recent invention. This fact 
will give a tolerable notion of the extent of this year’s ex¬ 
hibition as regards the implements only. The total amount 
of prizes offered is £3236 —<£2505 by the council of the 
society, £701 by the local committee, and £30 by Lord 
Londesborough/” 
We are, however, now enabled to append the Award of 
Prizes in accordance with our annual custom. The show of 
stock has never been surpassed, either in quantity or quality 
as a whole. The short-horn classes were superb, notwith¬ 
standing, we missed the name of Col. Towneley from the 
list of exhibitors, and there was also a very superior show of 
both Herefords and Devons. The horses, if we except the 
thorough-breds, were scarcely so good as we remember to 
have seen them. The sheep classes were excellent, particu¬ 
larly the Cotswolds and Leicesters, and, as we suppose, we 
must add the Shropshire Downs. The pigs were never so 
good, and it reflects credit on some of the Yorkshire owners 
that no longer doubtful cases of age were to be found among 
them. 
Upwards of 146,000 persons visited the show yard, paying 
for admission nearly £10.000. On the Thursday, the first 
of the shilling days, 74,000 persons were admitted, consisting 
of artizans from the various factories in the town and neigdi- 
bourhood of Leeds, as well those more directly interested in 
agricultural progress as dwellers in the rural districts. 
AWARD OF PRIZES. 
SHORT-HORNED CATTLE. 
Ctass I .—To the owner of the best Bull , calved on or before the 1st of July, 
1859, and not exceeding six years’ old. 
First prize of £30 to No. 6, Lord Feversham, of Duncombe Park, 
Ilelmsley, Yorkshire. 
Second prize of £15 to No. 16, James Haughton Langston, M.P., of 
Sarsden House, Chipping-Norton, Oxfordshire. 
Third prize of £5 to No. 11, James Dickinson, of Balcony Farm House, 
Upholland, Wigan, Lancashire. 
