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she was a calf of fmc quality, with magnificent hind-quarters, hips, rumps, 
and thighs, all particularly good ; hut, although very fat, she was slightly 
deficient hehind her shoulders, or she would have stood first. No. 539, Lord 
Sudeley's " Ceres 4th," was couimcudcd, and from the top of her shoulders to 
lier tail head she was a perfect model of what a fat calf ought to he, and had 
she been judged in that capacity, she nuist have stood first ; her hair and 
quality were also fine, but she was very small of her age, and her neck 
bad and short, with an inferior head ; and for the purjjose of breeding a fine 
class of shorthorns she could scarcely enter into competition with several 
others in the class. 
In a separate note by one of the Judges, lie remarks of 
Class 46 that there was scarcely an inferior animal among the 
whole, and after speaking in emphatic terms in praise of Colonel 
Towneley's prize heifer, he concludes by saying — 
I may summarise a report of the female classes, by adding that (setting 
aside the winners) though there were no animals of extraordinary merit, 
thei'e was scarcely an inferior one. It was also satisfactory to notice that 
there was not a single instance of over-feeding, and that most of the cows 
were in a healthy milking state, which quality, I think, should he taken into 
great consideration. 
Though the Judges' verdict is that the cow classes were not 
so good as at Leicester yet there were large numbers of cows 
and heifers present of first-rate quality, well worthy to support 
the credit of this favourite and rapidly increasing breed of cattle. 
For every herd that existed five-and-twenty years ago there must 
be half a dozen or more now, and the value of certain fashion- 
able tribes is marvellously maintained, as shown by the eager 
competition for any of their blood on the occasion of public or 
private sales. 
The Yorkshire Dairy Cows are thus commented on by the 
Judges : — 
Class 70. — In this class we had gi-eat difficulty in arriving at a decision, 
but were chiefly guided in our award by the apparent milking qualities of 
the animals. Some of the cows were very large and good. 
Classes 71 and 72 require no particular notice. 
It is surely most desirable to give every encouragement to 
these fine milk-producers — a plentiful supply of milk for the 
infant Britisher being even more important than the supply of 
beef to the adult. Medical and other evidence points indis- 
putably to the facility afforded to the agricultural labourer in 
the North of England and in Scotland generally, in respect of a 
supply of milk for their families, as one main cause of their 
superiority in stature and physical development over the working 
classes in towns and manufacturing districts, as well as over the 
agricultural labourers in those parts of England where no 
adequate supply of milk is easily obtainable by them. 
It would be better if the milking qualities of our three most 
prominent races of cattle were not, as is too often the case, 
