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bitors— tlie Marquis Conyngham and Lord Clermont. 

 The prizes were pretty well divided, Lord Clermont 

 being, on the whole, the must successful. 



The Irish shows are always well supplied with a good, 

 useful description of swine, and the Dublin Society's 

 exhibition was no exception to the general rule. In the 

 coloured breeds the successful exliibitors of boars were 

 Lord Clermont, Drs. Taylor, RadcliiT, and Collins, and 

 Mr. Rutherford. Of coloured sows and litters, Messrs. 

 Macken, Joyce, Metge, Sugden, Tomkinson, and Wil- 

 son. The pure Berkshires, with few exceptions, were 

 those which took the lead in this class ; and whilst there 

 were some excellent animals shown, particularly by 

 Lord Clermont and Mr. Joyce, it struck us that, as a 

 class, the coloured were not equal to the white. The 

 breeding sows of the white breeds were the best we have 

 seen at any of the Iri>h shows ; and it appears to us 

 that the white breeds are now mo.e in favour in Ireland 

 than even the Berkshires. The boars shown on the part 

 of the Irish exhibitors by Lord Lurgan, Mr. Ellison, Mr. 

 Patteson, and Mr. Peart, were exceedingly good ; and the 

 credit of England was well sustained by Mr. Wilkinson, of 

 Roundhay, Leeds, who was also a successful competitor. 

 In the best section of this department, breeding sows. 

 Lord Lurgan and Mr. Peart were the prize winners ; 

 and in the litters Messrs. Pollok, Ellison, and Metge 

 took first prizes, and the Duke of Leinster, Mr. Pollok, 

 and Mr. Rutherford second. 



We cannot say much in favour of the poultry exhibi- 

 tion. It ought to have been a great deal better, consi- 

 dering that poultry and their products form a not 

 inconsiderable item in the receipts of the class of small 

 occupiers which forms such a large proportion of the 

 Irish tenantry. A great export trade is carried on in 

 these articles from every part of Ireland from which a 

 steamer sails ; and the universal dissemination of the best 

 breeds of a useful kind — such as the Dorking and Spanish 

 fowl and the Aylesbury duck— is most desirable. As it is, 

 the best lots appear to be in the hands of two or three 

 individuals, whose names we meet with in the catalogues 

 every year, without much variation, or addition to their 

 numbers. The best lots of Cochins were those exhibited 

 by Messrs. Lugton and WHght. Of Dorkings, by Col. 

 Leslie and Mr. Parrel's were very good ; Mr. R. P. Wil- 

 liams also very good, and Mr. Perrin. The two latter gen- 

 tlemen, with Mr. Warburton, exhibited some very fair 

 Spanish. In spangled Hamburgs Mr. R. P. Williams 

 was successful, one of his lots in particnlar being very 

 line, whilst lie was no less fortunate with his white- 

 crested black fowl. Col. Hill's turkeys, Mr. Hyland's 

 Aylesbury ducks, and Mrs. Green's Rouens were the 

 best in their respective sections. 



The t]\ow of horses, which are chiefly of an Bgricultiiral 

 class, is held on the last day of the exhibition, and from waut 

 of sufficient room and of proper arrangement, tlie inspection of 

 this department at the Spring Shows is always an unsatisfactory 

 piece of business. Stallious of all kinds and ages are mixed to- 

 gether in one part, and mares, colts, and fillies iu another ; 

 and this must continue to be the cue, until a sufficient amount 

 of space is provided for all the purposes of the show. Some 

 years ago, when we began first to atteud the Spring Shows of 

 the Royal Dublin SQciety, the horse department attracted very 



little attention ; but the case is altered now, and the Spring 

 Meetings bring together a considerable number of stallions, 

 which although, perhaps, not of a tirst-class description, are 

 yet of a more useful character thau we have seen them. 

 It occurs [to u?, that the prizes offered are not sufficiently 

 large to induce the owners of first-rate draught 

 stallions to send such for competition in Dublin ; 

 and we have no hesitation in saying that if the 

 Society would make tlie prizes something worth contending 

 for, there would be no lack of good horses. The prevailing 

 breed was the Clydesd.de ; and although some were importa- 

 tions from Scotland, they were not up to the mark of stallions 

 of this breed, which one meets witli at the shows of the 

 Highland Society, when such are held at (riasgow. There 

 were also some Suffolks, and a Norman horae. The best 

 stallion on the ground was Mr. Milloy's Diamond, a bay 

 Clydesdale, which has gained several prizes on foriaer occa- 

 sions both at the shows of the Royal Dublin, and the Agri- 

 cultural Improvement Society. He was bred iu Scotland, has 

 good shapes and light action. On this occasion he only got 

 an honorary certificate, his previous successes having precluded 

 him from obtaining the special prize. In the section of stal- 

 lions foaled prior to January, 1855, Mr. Rogersou's chesuut 

 got the prize. He is a strong substantial animal, but a little 

 coarse. Mr. Mill wai second with his five-year-old Clydes- 

 dale. In the next section, that of stallions foaled since 1855, 

 there ware nine entries, but none of sufficient merit to obtain 

 any of the prizes. Two Clydesdale mares, belonging to Jlr 

 Boyle and ]Mr. Welsh, got two prizes in their section. They 

 were of a very ordinary sort. No merit in the colts, and Mr, 

 Rogcrson and Mr. Durie got first and second prices for their 

 fillies. 



IMPLEMENTS, 



Owing to the space which is now taken up by the new 

 buildings which are in course of erection on the lawn 

 behind the Society's house, the bounds allotted to the 

 implement section were more circumscribed than they 

 used to be. However, the arrangement of the sheds was 

 well contrived, and not an inch was lost which could 

 be rendered available. The Society does not award 

 prizes for implements ; but owing to the fact that many 

 of the Irish gentry and farmers being themselves out for 

 procuring a supply, or giving their orders at the Spring 

 Show, there is always sufficient inducement offered to 

 manufacturers to come forward, and on this occasion 

 there was no lask of English as well as of Irish ex- 

 hibitors. We shall not enter into a minute report 

 of the lots which were shown, because they have, 

 for the most part, been already reported upon in our 

 columns, but shall confine ourselves to a brief summary 

 of the names of the principal exhibitors, with the dif- 

 ferent articles belonging to each. 



Richmond axd Chandler, of Salford : ChafT ma- 

 chines, corn and oilcake-crushers, linseed mills, turnip- 

 cutters, steaming apparatus, grubbers, chain harrows, 

 haymaking machines, horse rakes, turnip drills, broad- 

 cast seed-machines, &c. 



Thomas Peruv and Son, Bilston and Glasgow : An 

 assortment of field gates, stable fittings, hurdles, wire 

 fencing and netting, iron garden-chairs, &c. 



FREUEracK Mason, Ipswich: Portable boilers with regis- 

 tered steamers for cooking food for cattle, &c. ; oilcake and bean 

 grinding mills, and chaff engines. 



