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old heifers Mrs. Edwards' Mabel for the third time 

 won Eoyal honors, though it was quite a matter of 

 choice between the three tops. A good-looking 

 daughter of Ivington Eose was placed second, and 

 the Adf orton heifer Beatrice, winner of several first 

 prizes at local and county shows, was given third. 

 The latter had splendid character and perhaps bet- 

 ter style than either. 



In yearling heifers Mrs. Edwards again exhibited 

 Leonora and Beatrice. The latter had been placed 

 first the year before, but Leonora was undoubtedly 

 the better now. A grand heifer she was, with plenty 

 of scale, as level as possible, and with nice charac- 

 ter. In heifer calves Mrs. Edwards was again first 

 with Beatrice 2d from the same dam as the other 

 Beatrice. Second went to Mr. Taylor for Lanca- 

 shire Lass. In a new class for best cow with two 

 offspring the prize was won by Mr. Taylor with 

 Hazel, a twelve-year-and-ten-month-old cow, with 

 her two sons, Taunton, by Triumph 2d, and Trede- 

 gar 3d, by Tredegar. Mr. Thomas Nott of Letton 

 took second prize with a daughter of Chieftain 3d. 



The Bristol Winners. -The show of 1878 was 

 held at Bristol. Herefords were not so well repre- 

 sented here as at Birmingham and Liverpool, but 

 many very good ones supported well the honor of 

 the breed. In the aged bulls Mr. Taylor's Thought- 

 ful, a son of Mercury, by Jupiter, the sire of Trede- 

 gar, satisfactorily filled his half brother's place. 

 This was his third first prize Eoyal win; he was 

 first as a two-year-old at Birmingham, as a three- 



