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mind, or can find out some method of feeding them 

 which will not destroy the animals, and which I have 

 hitherto failed to accomplish." The conclusion which 

 he adopted, in view of these liabilities, may he useful 

 to agriculturists in America as well as in England. 

 He says : " What I intend exhibiting in future will 

 be shearlings only, as I believe they are not so easily 

 injured by extra feeding as aged sheep, partly by 

 being more active, and partly by having more time 

 to put on their extra condition, by which their consti- 

 tutions are not likely to be so much impaired." 



At nearly every subsequent national exhibition, Mr. 

 Webb carried off the best prizes for Southdowns. At 

 Dundee, in 1843, the Highland Society paid him the 

 compliment of having the likenesses of his sheep taken 

 for its museum in Edinburgh. He only received two 

 checks in these competitions after 1840, and these he 

 rectified and overcame in an interesting way. The 

 first took place at the great meeting at Exeter, in 

 1850, and the second at Chelmsford, in 1856. On 

 both of these occasions, he was convinced that the 

 judges had not done justice to the qualities of his 

 animals, and he resolved to submit their judgment to 

 a court of errors, or to the decision of a subsequent 

 meeting of the society. So, in 1851, he presented the 

 unsuccessful candidate at Exeter to the meeting at 



