The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-06-11 00:00:00

BATH 1 WEST OF ENGLAND SOCIETY.

GREAT MEETING AT TRURO.

The annual show of the Bath and West of England
Society has during tbe lest week been held at Truro, and
thus for the first time in the history of the Conn.&
people their territory has been admitted to • con,
nom.ty of the privileges so long enjoyed by the Oi r
couhtira; Our reporter was particulary struck
with tbe amount of cap:tal employ. 4 in the odor,;
sod with the small quantity of corn grown in the
county, which he was told would only feed the inlia•
isitatita one week in an eeeee ge season. Truro itself.
though • small town, with 10,000 or 12,000 inhabi-
tants, is not only regarded av the capit lot Cornwall,
hut is an important centre of mining and agricultural
operations. At no great distance from it was bona
Sir Humidity Davy, the (Alberni agricultural obi-sanity;
and aniong the suggestions of the week is one that
to bin removal front Cornwall and his subsequent
acquaintance with Dr. Fothergill—an early contributor
to the original pspen of the Bath and West of
England Society—the agricultural world is mainly
indebted for the attention he paid to • branch of
science which has proved so highly beneficial in the
hand* of salssequent investigators.
When it was first suggeated thnt the Society should
•isi; Truro, considerable doubt was expressed whether
anything but a large beat meeting could be realised in
a district ao geographically remote from the central
parts of England. It was trend that not only the show
of implements, but that of stock would be reduced to •
minimum, and after the remarkable exhibition at
Dorchester lad year, great anxiety was felt lest the
preacut meeting should 'move • failure. In this it is
.atiefactury to know that the apprehension., of the
timorous have not been realised. If the collection of
implement' sae not so large as that of last year, it was
neverthelesa extremely rich in important examples of
ma.-hinery, and bon- a very lavoutable comperison with
the show at llarnotaple two years ego. As for the
show of stock, with 11. solitary exception of sheep, it
was quite up to the average, and the spirit with which
I the Cornish sends endeavoured Is maintain a reputation
in their own county was for various salmons highly
creditable and satisfactory.
Each in the undulating character of the land lei the
neighbourhood of Truro, that it was impossible to find
a level tell of anything like mallicient •xtent fur the I
purpose* of the show. The ground eventually selected
had therefore the disadvantages of • nab*, steep
dement, not altogether oonveuient for settle having
hone to stand in the awn situation, but presenting
many feature, of superiority to any other 18 ai rem
procurable by the Society for it. prevent purpose..
The yen' was at all creole most pietureequely
situated.
Oue of the lessons taught by the Dorchester meeting
was the importance of giving greater strength and
stability to the Society', shedding, and this has been
carried out by Mr. Jonathan Gray en a very effective
plan. Retaining all Use former elcuenta of strength,
Mr. Gray has introduced T iron gables with ll•T
iron cross-ties at each transverse peat; the whole
framework of the shedding is therefor, compactly
knitted together, sad eves abookl the storms of Intim
yean attain the violence of that which reeently
daingir,d the Crystal Palace at Rydenhem, it should
really 6•0111 that the Soriety has taken as great precau-
tions as ',redeem mid ingenuity eon suggest in such a
ohne of erections.

An an masa to the character of the present inertia;
it may be nientionel that in the 4•Pertusent of stock
there were 143 exhibitors as against 119 at Dorchester.
while, for reasons which will presently appear, the
cumber of animal,' was only 498 at Truro against 399
at last year's meeting. In connection with this subjoin
an analyis of the Catalogue exhibits the following
carious particulars: Of the 143 exhibitors jest allipled
to, no less than 86 are persons reeident in Cornwall ;
Lest Somerset supplies a cootiogeney of 3 • Wing
lowerpet, 10 • Worth Deco., 17 • South I.hegit, 6;
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