542 BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND ASSOCIATION. 
tute, organism-ferment or infusorii_, which are found after 
some affections in the blood, or in the other fluids of the 
patient, it can no longer be affirmed that the affection in 
question is the sequence of their introduction into the 
organism. Moreover, the presence of infusorii in pathologic 
products might as well be considered the effect of the malady, 
as the cause of it. 
THE BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND AND 
SOUTHERN COUNTIES ASSOCIATION. 
Southampton. —This meeting has been attended with great suc¬ 
cess. The management appears to have been excellent, and the 
result was one of the prettiest show-grounds we have ever seen. A 
large share of praise is undoubtedly due to the secretary, Mr. 
Goodwin, and other officials, for the efficient manner in which every¬ 
thing was done, and the attractions that were held out to tempt 
visitors. In a pecuniary sense this meeting will also be a good one 
for the Society. On Monday the sum taken at the turnstiles, at 
25. Gc?. each, was 194/., but this small sum was due, no doubt, to a 
deluging shower about noon. On Tuesday the sum taken w'as 
736/. 7s. 6d.; on Wednesday upwards of 900/.; on Thursday, at 
two o’clock, the time we left, the Finance Steward informed us that 
about 20,000 had entered. Thursday w^as the first shilling day. As 
regards the stock and machinery this is undoubtedly the best meeting 
this Society has had, although the number of the stock w'as not 
quite so great as at Bristol, in consequence of there being no extra 
classes here. The exact numbers are—Bristol, .545 head; South¬ 
ampton, 528 head. The machinery had increased greatly, in both 
the number and value of the articles. 
Cattle .—The Shorthorns were a collection that did credit to this 
breed of large heavy cattle. Tlie 1st prize in the aged class was 
awarded to the Messrs. Game, for an immense beast, that had 
muscle in abundance and quality enough for any reasonable con¬ 
noisseur. The 2nd was ]Mr. Stratton’s, also a heavy animal, with 
plenty of flesh. In the class for bulls under two years of age there 
was much evidence of over-feeding. The 1st prize reminded us of 
First Fruits, the Babrahara 1st prize at Battersea in ’G2. Lord 
Sudeley was the winner here, and his young bull was within a week 
or so of two years of age. He is a most attractive animal, taking 
him as he is; but when we come to consider the effect his perfect 
fat-ox ripeness must have on his constitution and that of his issue, 
if he ever be capable of being a sire, it is clear that it is the duty of 
every influential society to disc|ualify animals so fed. It is an insult 
to the practised judges of this country to make up a bull into the 
