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as we have seldom seen so good a one as the two-shear belonging to Mr. 
Hutchinson. The race between the first- and fecond-prize shearlings was 
well Contested, being only won by a "neck." Mr. Turner's first- and second- 
prize shearling ewes showed great character and good breeding. 
Mr. Brown's had good fleeces and fat backs, but did not show quite such 
good breeding as Mr. Turner's. 
John S. Jordan. 
William Sanday. 
COTSWOLDS. 
A champion prize, offered bj the Gloucestershire Agricultural 
Society for the best ram of this breed, was awarded to Mr. 
Russell Swanwick for the six-tooth ram No. 871, the first in its 
class. This was a great ram, with level back and full frame. 
Mr. Swanwick also took third prize in this class, Mr. Thomas 
Brown being second. In the shearling ram class there were 
a good many entries. No. 845, Mr. John Gillett's first-prize 
ram, was a fine-looking animal, with massive fore-quarters and 
good back. Mr. Russell Swanwick was second and third for two 
sheep in great condition. Mr. John Gillett was first and third 
for the shearling ewes, and Messrs. T. and S. G. Gillett second ; 
these pens did not appear to be quite so even as they might have 
been, but the wool seemed to be of fine quality. 
The twenty-six shearling rams in Class 85 made a good entry as to num- 
bers, but were not quite uj) to the usual standard with regard to quality. 
In Class 86 there were eight entries, three of which were absent. No. 871 
was a very good specimen of a Cotswold ram, being of good quality, though 
rather deficient in wool. 
The six. entries in Class 87 call for no special remark. 
W. T. Garne. 
Thomas Fortek. 
LiNCOLNS. 
Mr. H. Smith was first in the Shearling Ram Class with a 
very compact sheep. Mr. A. Garfit took second place. In the 
Aged Rams, Mr. H. Smith was again successful, showing 
" Hermit," the winner at Liverpool, in the same class. This 
sheep is a little deficient in wool, but has a great carcass and a 
fine straight back. The Lincolns, as a whole, looked very well, 
but the Judges made some remarks to me about shearing, and I 
see they have embodied them in their Report. 
The number of pens shown in this section was good in tlie Shearling, but 
Jiraited to four pens in the .^ged I'am, and four in the Shearling Ewe classes. 
Mr. H. Smith maintained the high jiosition he has lately taken, as he 
carried otl the first jjrize in both the ram classes. His aged sheep, bred by 
Mr. Tom Casswc^ll, of Pointon, is a remarkably fine specimen of a Lincoln ; 
but we do not consider that, taken as a whole, tiie average of excellence of the ■ 
sheep shown is equal to that of some former years. We think it worthy of 
remark by Lincolnshire sheep-breeders that, out of the nine ])rizes given by 
