Report on the Live Stock exhibited at Bedford. 



599 



Commercial and fiscal changes have made the meat of sheep 

 more important than its wool. The attempts to acclimatise the 

 merino, and to put a merino fleece on a South Down carcase, 

 which occupied the attention of the exhibitors at the Holkham 

 and Woburn sheep-shearings, as well as of Lord Western, one 

 of the early promoters of this Society, have been abandoned. 



The Society has been successful in calling the attention of 

 farmers to the value as mutton-producers, not only of the de- 

 scendants of BakewelFs Leicesters, and the triumphs of Jonas 

 Webb's Southdowns, but of those excellent mutton-making 

 animals, the Oxford Down, the Shropshire Down, and their 

 crosses, which first made their mark at the Royal Shows. 



In numbers and in quality, the pure breeds of the farm stock 

 of England were well represented. 



aass. 



9 

 10 

 11 

 12 

 13 



14 



15 



16 

 17 



18 

 19 



20 



21 

 22 

 23 



HORSES. 



Stallions. 



Agricultural Stallion, foaled in the year 1872 



Agricultural Stallion, foaled before 1st of January, 1872 .. 



Clydesdale Stallion, foaled in the year 1872 



Clydesdale Stallion, foaled before the 1st of January, 1872 



Suffolk Stallion, foaled in the year 1872 



Suffolk Stallion, foaled before the 1st of January, 1872 



Stallion, suitable for getting Hackneys 



Thorough-bred Stallion, suitable for getting Hunters .. 



Brood Mares. 



Agricultural Mare, in foal, or with foal at foot 



Clydesdale Mare, in foal, or with foal at foot 



Suffolk Mare, in foal, or with foal at foot 



Mare and foal, of any breed, for Agricultural purposes 

 Mare, in foal, or with foal at foot, suitable for breeding) 



Coach Horses ) 



Mare, in foal, or with foal at foot, suitable for breedingr 



Hackneys \ 



Mare, in foal, or with foal at foot, suitable for breeding j 



Hunters J 



Draught Geldings and Fillies. 



Yearling Gelding, of any breed, for Agricultural purposes .. 

 Yearling Cart Filly, of any breed, for Agricultural purposes 



Agricultural Gelding, two years old 



Agricultural Filly, two years old 



Suffolk Filly, two years o[d(County of Suffolk Prize, offered) 



by Breeders of Su folk Horses) ) 



Agi'icultural Gelding, three years old 



Agricultural Filly, three years old 



Pair of Agricultural Horses (Mares or Geldings), not under) 



four years old, used solely for Agricultural purposes . . j 



No. of 

 Entries. 



15 



26 



6 



7 



12 



10 



16 



9 



20 

 7 

 8 

 8 



5 

 10 

 14 



1 



5 



6 



19 



6 

 10 



