The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-07-22
LONDON LETTER.
ENGLISH CROP PROSPECTS SHE AGRICUL
AL FAIR.
From our regular correspondent

LONDOS, July Suu, 1919.
Nothing was wanting except the sun
shine which might so reasonably have been
expected in July, to render the royal agri-
cultural society's show at Kilburn the
grandest and most successful exhibition of
It's kind ever witnessed. But summer APP
parently has veto commence here. The
cold winds and pelting rains, which are
working such mischief all over the country
have done their worst to mar the extensive
and costly preparations made for this great
gathering; and unless bright skies and
warm winds come-aud come before many
more November-like days intervene-thc
crops will be ruined and the agricultural
show with them. The world has not here.
totore witnessed anything approaching the
superb collection of agricultural nipple.
ments gathered at Kilburn on this occasion.
There are to be seen n one area, with more
familiar and antique appliances OF Ceres,
those modern inventions in their utmost
perfection which have revolutionized the
labor of the field. BY nothing has human
toll been so llghtened and saved as by
these ingenious appliances, which pillow and
SOW, reap and bind and stack,
thresh and winnow and perform
nearly all the most elaborate op-
erations of the fields by the Briarean arms
of steam. The whole science of tilage may
be studied this week at
Kilburn, from its birth to its pcrfec-
ton, in the comparative museum of
ancient and modern farm implements gath
cred there. Then there is vast deal to be
learned from the admirable display of use
full stock-animals, not struggling to sustain
loads of artificial fat and flesh, but healthy
and natural-the kline and herds and cart
horses of the farm, the farmers hackneys,
the splendid Clydesdales the useful Ger
man breeds, the beautiful and docile Dan
ish cattle, and many other interesting OBJ
iects. For the sake Of dairy arts alone,
visit to this most valuable display ought to
be made by every body who has to do with
butter, cheese and milk. Here are to be
viewed at pleasant work the dairymaids of
France and Denmark, Holstein and Lin
burg vying with the well-known English
"Kitty that carries the milking pail;" and
given only tolerable weather-the show
must have been such a success as would
have sent back the countless Foreigners
who have come over to it full, of admiration
at theSesources and rural energy of Eng
land. The Prince of Wales CALAMITY de-
fed the abominable weather on Tuesday
morning last to give all the assistance he
could to the society of which he has been
president and Lord Baconsfeld with
British indifference to the elements, attend.
ed at the yard and inspected the great col.
lection. There were not wanting thousands
of votaries of the soil and the stock-yard to
support these influential personages; and
ladies, with the same dauntless fortitude
that was evidenced at Ascot, defed the
rain and the wind, nobly helping, at the
cost of toilette and chaussure to sustain the |
enterprise.
The English manifest great solicitude
in the general efforts which they are thus
to render Kilburn Exposition a
success. This is the great celebration Of the
farming industries Of the nation and it no
doubt cheers the English farmer to see that
London and the kingdom generally care
more than ever to know how he is getting
On against all the heavy odds which the ele.
ments, the markets, and foreign competi-
ion conspire to create against him.
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