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more searching^ judgment was required than to give an opinion 

 as to whether the exhibitor was entitled to a " medal for progress" 

 or must be satisfied with a " medal for co-operation." Scarcely 

 less happy was the arrangement of the stalls. The cattle stood 

 in short rows across the sheds at right angles to their length, and 

 not in a long single or double row, as in an English show-yard. 

 The male visitor therefore crossed and recrossed the sheds in too 

 close proximity to the heels of one row of cattle and the horns 

 of another. Ladies could not make a series of such hazardous 

 excursions, and therefore they were debarred from any but the 

 most cursory glimpses. 



English Cattle. 



England occupied the first place in the catalogue, and, as 

 might have been expected, so far at least as cattle are concerned, 

 it was solely represented by Shorthorns. Mr. John Brown, of 

 Grey Street, Hull, exhibited six young bulls ; the Messrs. 

 William and Henry Dudding, of Panton House, Lincolnshire, 

 exhibited one bull : Mr. John Fowler, of Aylesbury, a bull and 

 heifer, and Mr. Henry Frederick Smith, of Hamwath House, 

 Sutton ^lill, Yorkshire, showed one good yearling bull. These 

 ten specimens completed the English cattle section, and some 

 surprise was expressed on the part of foreign visitors that there 

 was so small a show. Looking at the English section as a whole, 

 it could not be said to give a first-class idea of our favourite race, 

 but there were two or three animals of considerable merit. Mr. 

 Fowler's bull exhibited ampleness of form, was thoroughly well 

 haired, and possessed the characteristic grandeur of head and 

 neck peculiar to the race ; his colour also was gay, and his 

 quality satisfactory. Some judges might have preferred Messrs. 

 Dudding's red yearling bull " British Prince," but as he was 

 many months younger it was difficult to compare the two ani- 

 mals. Both, however, were passed by the judges in favour of 

 Mr. Smith's (No. 10) bull, which eventually was placed first. 

 Evidently the judges were determined to look only at what may 

 be called the flesh points of these animals. It probably would 

 have been in vain to have pointed out to them a certain swarthiness, 

 amounting almost to black, or brindled stripes, in the coat of 

 their favourite, or to contrast his short hair with the flossy, silky 

 coat of Mr. Fowler's bull. They appeared equally indifferent to 

 that nobleness of head and neck which Mr. Fowler's bull certainly 

 possessed in no small degree. They also considered that defi- 

 ciency behind the sluwlder, which English Shorthorn judges are 

 too apt to condone as belonging to the race, an unpardonable fault. 

 On the other hand, general levelness, length, and substance of 



