On tlie E^-Jdbition of Live Stock at Cheater. 397 



" It may be that in the present unimproved state of the mountain pastuix's 

 iu Wales uo breed of sheep can be brought to any degree of perfection 

 upon them. If it is so, the first step by the landlords should be to imjirove 

 the pastures, by introducing, wherever they will take root, the seeds of 

 various natural grasses, and plants such as the dwarf furze ; also by draining 

 where it is boggy, burning where the herbage is coarse and beuty, and liming 

 where reijuired. These are improvements which have paid well on many 

 mountainous districts of Scotland, and have changed the breeds of stock, now- 

 kept profitably where they would have formerly starved and become stunted, 

 like the Welsh mountain sheep." 



The Welsh sheep exhibited at the Chester Meeting; were 

 from the counties of Carnarvon, Radnor, Denbigh, and Merioneth. 

 None were sent from the Isle of Anglesey. 



Class I. — WehJi Mountain Rams of am/ age : 10 entries. — The 

 first prize was awarded to Colonel Pennant, for an improved 

 Welsh ram, which had signs of a dash of Cheviot about him ; the 

 second was awarded to Mr, Roberts, Llarsaman, Denbigh. This 

 animal was unshorn, and had all the characteristics of a real 

 mountaineer. 



Class IT. — Mountain Eices, any age, pens of Jive : 7 entries. — 

 The prize ewes showed a cross of the Cheviot. They were the 

 property of Mr. Roberts, Bodidres, Denbigh. The second and 

 third prize ewes were shown by Mr. Mynors, Evancoyd, Radnor. 

 These pens were of a grey or brown-faced cast, showing signs 

 of the Down blood, and had thick-set fine wool. The others 

 were of a moderate description. 



Class III. — Shropsldre Doicns ; Siiearling Rams : 50 entries ! 

 — 8 animals were exhibited in this class alone, and 42 others 

 competed in the Society's Class I. for shearling rams of a short- 

 woolled breed, not being Southdowns. Mr. W. O. Foster, Kinvcr 

 Hill, Stourbridge, received the first prize for his shearling, which 

 girthed 4 feet 4 inches. The second prize was awarded to 

 Messrs. J. & E. Crane, of Shrawardine, Shrewsbury. Their 

 sheep No. 625 was also commended. 



Class IV. — Rams of any age : 1 9 entries ; 2 shown in tliis class, 

 and 17 in the Society's Class II. — The first prize was awarded to 

 the beautiful first prize sheep in the Society's Class II., the pro- 

 perty of Mrs. Baker, Grendon, Atherstone. The second was 

 given to Mr. G. Adney, of Harley, Much Wenlock, No. 659, 

 and his No. 660 was highly commended. By this award the 

 Judges reversed the position of Mr. Adney 's two rams, the 

 •Judges of the Society's class having placed jSo. 660 first, and 

 highly commended 659. This again points to the intricate work 

 caused by mixing the special prize class animals with those of 

 the Society. Three other rams were commended. 



