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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
money taken £1.274, thus making a grand total of 55,511 
visitors, and £5,461 185. 6d. of money received. 
The following table will show the progress made by the 
society since 1844: 
Place of Meeting. 
Receipts from 
visitors. 
Cattle 
shown. 
Implement 
exhibitors. 
Southampton 
. £2432 
716 
99 
Shrewsbury 
1682 
527 
93 
Newcastle .... 
2168 
775 
110 
Northampton 
2473 
580 
142 
York. 
2514 
866 
146 
Noiwick .... 
2360 
799 
145 
Exeter .... 
2493 
769 
118 
Windsor .... 
3397 
1226 
— 
Lewes .... 
1184 
828 
105 
Gloucester .... 
2734 
931 
128 
Lincoln .... 
3378 
939 
130 
Carlisle .... 
3260 
1076 
121 
Chelmsford 
2988 
906 
151 
Salisbury .... 
3447 
1462 
156 
Chester .... 
6187 
1444 
197 
Warwick .... 
5461 
1601 
246 
From these returns it will be seen that the late exhibition at 
Warwick was the largest as regards the entries both of stock 
and implements which the society has ever held, but that 
the receipts fell off as compared with the Chester meeting. 
This falling off was mainly due to the want of public spirit, 
and co-operation on the part of some of the railway companies 
who neglected to run excursion trains from the great manufac¬ 
turing towns of the district of which Warwick is the centre. 
Under such circumstances we were not sorrv to find that the 
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formal “ vote of thanks” to the railway directors, at the 
general meeting of the members of the society, was not 
allowed to pass without an expression of feeling of disap¬ 
pointment at their proceedings. We trust that good may 
arise out of this in another respect and that in future there 
will be fewer complaints of the lack of expertness in the 
transmission of the animals from their several localites to the 
place of meeting. A want of this led to the late arrival of 
many valuable animals at the show, worn out by fatigue, and 
in a condition ill-fitted for competition with those which were 
more fortunate. 
