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formed, useful-looking bulls, showing moderate quality and 
fair substance, but lacking style and character. A good man}- 
were also a trifle long in the limbs and light in the flanks, while 
hair was even more scanty here than in the younger class. Count 
de Massol won the first prize here also, with a three-year-old bull, 
bred similarly to the one which came first in the young class. 
His form and general characteristics were also very similar, 
but he was lighter in colour, rather neater about the shoulders, 
very even all over, and, except that he stood too high above 
the ground, he was indeed, all round, a thoroughly good Short- 
horn. The Marquis de la Tullaye, of Menil, iNIayenne, came 
second with a large, heavy, fairly shaped three-year-old roan 
bull, showing plenty of substance and fair quality. The sire of 
this bull — "Roan'Buir' got by "Prince Regent" (24,857), 
and out of " Princess Pearl," by " Prince Pearl " (29,764) — 
was imported to France from Mr. F. Fowler, Henlow, in 1875 ; 
while his dam traces back through "Rachel," by "Reveller" 
(8430), to "Jane," by " Monk " (2266), and "Rufus" (570). 
Following closely upon this one came a very handsome roan 
bull, three years and ten months old, owned by M. Morisse, of 
Bretteville, Seine-Inferieure. One of the neatest in the class, 
this bull claims descent through " Hero," by " Hartforth " 
(3986), from " Marske " (481), and "Comet" (155), of which 
bull there is a double cross in the pedigree. The fourth-prize 
bull, a very promising animal, two years and four months old, 
exhibited bv Count de Falloux, is half-brother to the Count's 
second-prize young bull, and is got by " Tric-trac," who claims 
an excellent English pedigree, including, among others, " The 
Beau" (12,182), "Duke of Cornwall" (5947), "Prince Ernest" 
(4818), ■ " Phenomenon " (491), " Favourite " (252)— double 
cross — and " Hubback " (319). Heavier, and better fleshed 
than this bull, but older — by a year and a half — and not quite 
so stylish, was the fifth-prize winner. Exhibited by M. de 
\ illepin, Sarthe, he traces back, through " The Baron " (9711), 
and "Gleaston Castle Bull" (6040), to " Wellington " (686), 
and " Favourite " ( 252). 
The class composed of heifers under tv,'o years old — 27 in 
number- — showed better quality and more character than any 
ot the other classes in the Section. Compared to the older 
classes, it exhibited substantial improvement, particularly in 
regard to character, but also in a slight degree in quality of 
flesh and in other respects. It is an undisputable truth, 
however, that good heifers are much more numerous than 
good cows. M. Auclerc, of Allichamps, Cher, headed this 
class with a very promising red and white heifer, twenty-two 
months old, descended on her dam's side, through ''Columbus" 
