The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-23 00:00:00

SEEDS, &C

Messrs. Thos Gibbs and Co. 'showed fine samples of seeds
of all natural grasses for permanent pasture, dried plants ;
specimens of wheat in the ear, and straw, and a variety of
roots; also, on the part of the society, numerous and highly
interesting models of premative agricultural implements, &c.
Mr. G. Gibbs, London, a variety of scarce and valuable
seeds.

Mr. Cormack , of Manchester, specimens of naturalgrasses,
dried and in the growing state; also agricultural seeds.
Mr. William Skirving, of Walton nursery, Liverpool,
roots and trees, and samples of seeds; specimens of Swede
turnips, introduced by himself ; also specimens of the arau-
caria imbricata. or Chili pine tree, which has been proved
sufficiently hardy for any part of England and the Highland
of Scotland—is handsome, and produces valuable timber, and
requires nearly the same treatment as the Scotch fir; also a
specimen of the new manure called " guano," from South
America, which .has shown the wonderful effects stated in
yesterday's proceedings.
Amongst the machines shown was a capital marble thrash-
ing mill, worked on the ground by a five-horse steam engine,
shown by our townsman Mr. Cartmel, who also exhibited
many excellent implements and machines.
CATTLE, HORSES, &C.

The show of beasts, horses, sheep, and pigs was excellent,
and in quality, as a whole, superior to anything before seen
in this district. So far we are bound, in justice, to say ;
but had the management of the Agricultural Society been in
other hands, the exhibition would have been infinitely more
gratifying, and the numbers perhaps doubled.
The horses, in particular, were few, very few in number,
in cousequence of the niggardly operations of the " council"
of the association. They never advertised the premiums in
any one of the Liverpool, Manchester, or Lancashire
papers. The result was, that parties who had animals
to show heard of the matter merely casually (if they
heard it at all) ; and as the Ist of the present month was the
last day of entry, the greater portion of them were of conse-
quence entirely excluding from all competition. Although
Lancashire is famed for draught horses, there were few or none
shewn, so far as we could ascertain, with the exception of
two—one a horse of, we believe, the Suffolk breed, and the
other a mare of the Clydersdale breed—both the property of
the Earl of Derby—and both of them won prizes! Many
parties brought their horses, but were told that they could
not enter. The Scottish Agricultural Society give, on the
contrary, due notice of six months, through the whole of the
newspapers and otherwise of a coming exhibition. Our
English " royal" worthies give no notice at all, in the im-
mediate district which they pi etend to come down to for its en-
couragement and benefit! The breed of draught horses in this
town, and, indeed, throughout the county is proverbially ex-
cellent ; but we were regularly cut out from competition.
This may be " the practice of the port of London," but it
won't, we repeat, do a second time in the port of Liverpool.
Amongst the horses, we noticed three beautiful animals
belonging to Messrs. Taylor, Almond, and Co., coal-propri-
etors, of this town and Standish. One of them; a spotted
grey, was of Herculean form and symmetry ; the other two
were scarcely inferior, and, to the unpracticed eye, still
finer.

A tine heifer, belonging to C. Tempest, Esq., obtained a
prize of sovs. It was 56years and 3 months old, and
girthed under the fore legs, 8 feet 7 inches.
The attendance at the show was numerous throughout the
day.