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tington, who acted as clerk for the two judges and 

 entered Stanway's girth on the official sheets at 

 the time as being the largest they had ever known. 

 The bull's substance was so combined with quality, 

 however, and he was so smooth and level in all his 

 points, that until his girth was taken it was not real- 

 ized how big he actually was. 



Wolverhampton and Cardiff. — The year following 

 the two great shows at Manchester and Oxford came 

 that at Wolverhampton. This was scarcely equal to 

 the Oxford show in outstanding animals, although 

 the Heref ords came out remarkably well in point of 

 numbers shown and in most cases in point of quality 

 also. 



The winner in the aged bull class was Monaughty 

 3d, that had been second to that exceptionally good 

 bull of Her Majesty, Prince Albert Edward, at Ox- 

 ford. He was then scarcely so well up in show con- 

 dition, but now with another year he had grown into 

 a bull of good character and quality, indeed, a type 

 of what a Hereford bull should be. Second to him 

 was the thick, square, good-looking Bachelor, a son 

 of the Adforton bull Douglas from a Sir Thomas 

 cow. In the three-year-old bulls Royal Head, a mas- 

 sive one from Mr. Kingsland's herd, was first. He 

 had both character and style. The second in the 

 class was Ostorius, bred at Adforton and first at 

 Manchester. The third was a remarkably nice level 

 bull, Mr. Philip Turner's Provost, a son of Bachelor. 

 He really had the most quality of any in the class. 

 In yearling bulls Mr. R. Hill's nice-quality bull, 



