3-017-044 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Exhibition of the West of England Agricultural Society at Clifton, 1864. 'No less than 88,138 people visited the Bath and West of England Exhibition at Bristol, and the total receipts were within seven half-crowns of £6000. The society at present consists of 1066 members, and the total head of stock from 165 exhibitors was 776. We omitted (from lack of an authorised prize-list) to mention that the head prize in the Hereford yearling-bull class was awarded to Mr. Duckham's Commodore, a son of the old cow Carlisle, of the Silver tribe, which was purchased, as a speculative bargain, at Lord Berwick's sale. In consequence of his dam having "foot and mouth," he was only nursed at the teat six weeks; but he has thriven apace, and now girths 7 ft. 6 in. at twenty-two months. Such receipts and the Treaty of Hereford between the All Red and White Face tribes will give the society henceforward a national importance, such as it has never yet possessed'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.