The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-07-30
LONDON LETTER.
(Frorn our Regular CorrespOndent.l

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/ (FroIn our Regular Correspondent.)
LONDON, July Q, 1879.
The exhibition of the Royal Agri
cultural Society of England will be
opened with appropriate ceremony on
the 30th of June.
The first Triennial celebration OF
the Society was held at Oxford in
1889 under the presidency of Earl
Spencer, and upon that occasion our
great orator, Daniel Webster, who
was present, held language which is
less applicable to British farmers at
this moment than it was forty years
ago. He told his hearers that the
whole world looked up to English
agriculture as to parent; that in no
other country was it so well under
stood as science or 80 well practiced
as an art as among the English peo-
Pile; that the civilized and CONNER.
cial interests of mankind were so
blended that the fear or the prospect
of short crop in England must de-
range and agitate the business trans
actions and monetary speculstions
and exchanges of the whole civilized
globe; and that, should there be o
frost in England fifteen or twenty
days later in the spring on dozen
! cold and wet days when the harvest
is reaped and garnered, every corn
exchange in the world would be
affected if not convulsed by the re-
suit
Since these words were spoken by
Mr. Webster, the tendency of the
day, thanks to the distance-defying
inventions and applications of steam
and electricity, is more and more in
the direction of an equalization OF
prices throughout the globe. The
dealers and spectators in cereals up
on the corn exchanges of Chicago,
Milwaukee and San Fransisco are
now as well acquainted each success
sive day with the price of wheat in
Marklane as the English merchants
who determine or set the price of
grain in the greatest commercial mart
of civilization.
simultaneously, the shippers of live
cattle, sheep and hogs, or of dead
meat, from the ports of the United
States to these islands, know whether
the moment IS propitious for fresh
consignments to foreign shores. The
whole world in fact is now an enor-
nous glass house, in which every
transaction that takes place is seen
and reported with lightning speed
and unerring accuracy. The British
farmer is upon his trial, and bis in
terests are SO inseperably woven with
those of his landlord and those of his
laborers that it is more than ever
necessary tor him to address himself
seriously to the task of rising in the
scale OF reflective and intelligent hu-
msnity
For these reasons the approaching
Internal .onal Exhibition OF the Royal
a gricu .oral Society offers an oppor-
tunity 70 farmers Of learning how
they stand when compared with their
rivals beyond the seas. Seventeen
years ago the same Society hell one
of its annual shows at Battersea, and
was patronized by so scanty con-
tingent OF spectators as TO leave
serious deficiency in The balance
sheet of its council. Regarded mere
ly as an exhibition, the many miles
of sheds already prepared at Kilburn
to receive the animals, implements,
and products that are expected will
afford q rich treat even 10 London
ers, who understand nothing about
stock, and have no other conceptions
as to the price of wheat than those
afforded by the cost of loaf of
bread.
The architectural work of the great
show is far advanced. Near the un-
rivalled horse-ring, and long, sweep
ing line of raised and covered seats,
are the dormitories for foreign herds
men; but it may be doubted whether
all or many of the hundred beds here
provided will be nightly occupied,
seeing how prevalent is the custom
among these men to sleep in sight of
their charges. The foreign horses
will make grand show; but, ia face
OF quarantine regulations, the horned
STOCK from abroad will present rather
diminished appearance. Still there
will be French beasts worth regard
ing; and yesterday forty cattle and
fifty sheep from Cherbourg arrived at
Portland, where they must remain
for ten days. The Channel Island
cattle, of which not fewer than 200
will be shown, promise to be the best
as well as largest display ever seen
in England. In consequence of the
noble exertious of Canon Bagot, 500
Irish working farmers, who have
been induced tc join in trip to the
Kilburn show-yard, will have oppor-
tunities of seeing for themselves those
new operations in foreign dairy labor
by which, as their reverend and wise
ly benevolent friend very truly says,
Irish butter is being beaten out of
the field.
The trials of railway wagons en-
tered in competition for the gold med
al and prize of $50 offered by the
Mansion House committee ''for the
best wagon for conveying perishable
articles. such as fsb, poultry, game,
etc.. q journey of 500 miles. the trucks
to retain their contents at tempera-
ture of As degrees Fahrenheit for
a period Of six dsys,D will commence