The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-08-23
Agricultural ExA,btt,on. Asresd.

Agricultural Exhibtttons Abroad.
IN frsncs aad kogiAad agricultural exhibitions
attract great attention, and are Recognised -
powerful iastrunsnts Of progress We Andin the
HArts correspondsEee Of the New York journal q
Cbmmxcs, graphic accounts of recent Fairs In
Hrsnes and Easland. The writer justly observes
that .psrmsnsns societies aud periodical shows
ass primary natiousi concern" He says that he
lsssly witnessed at Diepps what's called ocni.
ssai convocatson; the sturdy Normans seemed
3sssly proud Of their enormous horses, their pie.
hala bells, their cows, which truly deserve ths
spitAst Of mich, and their aeeey sheep. But no
array "a yrnncs could ssstain comparison with
she recent Royal Agricultural Society's display At
casssss. Chester, says the correspondent. never
presented . scene 10 extraordinary; some thirty
shossand persona, brought BY the railroad trains,
paid for sdmtssioo to the show yards. The exhi-
bitofs Of machinery profted in a wonderful de-
gree; one Of the prize engine makers received pos
tive orders for more than ffty steam engines,
With thseshing machines and smaller articles In
properties. AZ the favorise site for viewing The
exhibition, - large properties Of the very pumer
ous company consisted OF elegantly dressed ladies'
The great prixs OF the meeting. for the best steam
eaitivasor, was ave hundred pounds sterling.
II 10 stated that the novelty and glory Of
the occasion Vas the introduction Of the sta
pie manufacture Of tho eonnty--ehsese. for which
the local committee offered various and lib
erai prices. There we're hundred and eighty ex
h,bitoss OF the article: II occupied stands nearly
fveh undrsd sees 10 length and twenty wide. A hun.
drsd pounds sterling was offered for the four best
chooses not less than 90 lbs each aud made in the
year 1885, This prize, adds the correspondent.
vss awarded 10 Mr.. Willis Of Ridley Hall, Chss.
hire, and the gentleman's wife earned the ten
pounds allotted 10 the maker, the lady having
been her own dairy maid for the nonce. The four
Champion eheeses we're to be presented to Her Ma
1ssty Queen Victoria, the Emperor Napoleon. Earl
DERBY a. PREMIER and Lord Bsrners, n President
Of the Royal Agricultural Society. Prizes of ten
and ave pounds were bestowed ON the specime NJ
OF the best butter. The exhibitors OF chnrns we're
twenty; one Of the new implements from Lancs-
shire, - sun and planet motion churn, to work
thirty gallons milk, and fitted with pulleys for
steam, horse or hand power: saving much time and
labor, and producing the largest quantity OF but
ter"
Il IL added that English cheese 70 sold by most
Of tbs Paris grocers, and abundaptly in all the
British shops Of comestibles. At the dinner Of the
Royal Agricultural socie,y the Dnke Of Ma'ako1
aekno~ lodged the benefits which France had de
rived from the study and imitation Of British Az.
rieatrrs; and, the other hand Mr.. Gladstone. in
his speech, observed-"It Is to Frenchmen and TO
the ssduious imitation of what Prencbmen have
done By their taste and skill, that We Brltons owe
% small part Of the rapid progress in the manu-
fscturing industry of the Kingdom"