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his long and laborious years of devotion to their 

 interests, let them see that these finger-prints of his 

 be not obliterated by their neglect, but be perpetuated 

 for ever, both for their own good and for an ever-living 

 memorial to his name. 



It is a fact of instructive suggestion, that although 

 Mr. Webb commenced his operations in 1822, he won 

 his first prize for stock ewes at the meeting of the 

 Royal Agricultural Society at Cambridge in 1840. 

 Here he realised one of the serious disadvantages to 

 which stock-breeders in England are exposed, in 

 " showing " sheep, cattle or swine at these annual 

 exhibitions. The great outside world, with tastes that 

 lean more to fat surloins or shoulders than to the 

 better symmetries of animated nature, almost de- 

 mands that every one of these unfortunate beasts 

 should be offered up as a bloated, blowing sacrifice to 

 those great twin idols of fleshy lust, Tallow and Lard. 

 If, therefore, a stock-raiser has not decided to drive his 

 Shorthorn cow or Southdown ewe immediately from 

 the Fair grounds to the butcher's shambles, he runs 

 an imminent risk of losing entirely the use and value 

 of the animal. So great is this risk, that much of the 

 stock which would be most useful for exhibition is 

 withheld, and can only be seen by visiting private 

 establishments scattered over the kingdom. They are 



