616 Report on the Lite Stock exhibited at Bedford. 



Class 71. Heifers in-calf or in-milk. — Not superior. 

 Cla:?s 72, — Well represented, and in it several superior animals. 

 Class 73. — Excepting the first-prize animal, the remainder are inferior. 

 Class 74. Coius. — Not a superior lot. 



Class 75. Heifers. — Excepting the prize animals, the class was not 

 superior. 



Class 76, Coivs of any Breed. — A large and good class. 

 Class 77. — The prize animals good. 



The cattle were paraded every day after Monday, and, speak- 

 ing generally, with a regularity which leaves the Steward little 

 to complain of. The great difficulty consists in securing the 

 attendance of exhibitors' servants to lead out their cattle, and 

 much work, which ought to he done by them, has to be done by 

 the Society's men. As there is, no doubt, some risk in valuable 

 animals being led out by men not accustomed to them, and this 

 risk may fall upon the Society, the Steward of Cattle at Bedford 

 ventures to suggest to those who will follow him in his office, 

 that the rules of the Society affecting this point be more strictly 

 enforced than they have been. He would also add that the 

 parade of cattle might Avell be discontinued on the last day of 

 the show. 



Sheep. 



Mr. Wakefield has been so good as to furnish the following 

 report on his department. 



The number of entries at this year's show amounted to 479. 



The Inspectors of Sheai'ing examined the whole of the sheep 

 on the Saturday previous to the Show, and disqualified a certain 

 number on the ground of their not being fairly shorn, in accord- 

 ance with the rule laid down by the Society. They also stated 

 that there were several other cases with which they might have 

 dealt in a similar manner, but they picked out the more flagrant, 

 in the hope that they might suffice as a deterrent for the future ; 

 but they added, that should they have to act again for the Society 

 as Judges of shearing, they should be disposed to be much more 

 stringent in insisting on a more rigid carrying out ol the rule. 

 The attention of exhibitors intending to compete next year is 

 specially drawn to this, in order that they may more carefully 

 look after the shearing, and not leave the matter altogether in 

 the hands of servants over anxious for the honour of their em^- 

 ployers. 



The Inspectors also drew special attention to the great desira- 

 bility of passing a rule that no application of any kind to the wool 

 of sheep be allowed. It serves no good or useful purpose ; it makes 

 the duties of judging yeiy unpleasant in the handling, both to 

 themselves and to the Judges who come after them, and is, in fact> 



