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characteristics presented was quite bewildering, close on 30 
different crosses being represented. Many of the animals pos- 
sessed plenty of size and substance, but only a few showed either 
superior form or good quality. Among these few were crosses 
between the Manceau and various races, the Swiss and the 
Shorthorn, the Ayrshire and the Shorthorn, the Nivernais and 
the Bourguignon, and different kinds of Dutch crosses. The 
Limousin-Garonnais cross seemed an excellent animal for work, 
but lacked quality, and was not very neat. The Swiss cross 
was indeed a very good animal, much more like the Short- 
horn breed than the Swiss. The most satisfactory of all, how- 
ever, were the Manceau crosses, which were shown by M. Cher- 
bonneau. 
Sheep. — British Breeds. 
Southdoicn Breed. — Though not quite equal either in numbers 
or average merit to what is usually seen at the " Royal " Show, 
the display of this valuable mutton breed was nevertheless highly 
creditable to English breeders. Of this we have ample proof 
in the fact that the celebrated flocks of His Royal Highness the 
Prince of Wales and of Lord Walsingham were represented. No 
better material of the kind could be found anywhere than in 
these flocks, especially the Merton one. Here, as has often been 
the case, Lord Walsingham had the best of several smart contests, 
though His Royal Highness also won several coveted honours. 
From the flocks of Messrs. Emery, Messrs. Heasman, Mr. J. J. 
Colman, and Mr. Hugh Gorringe, there came sufficient mate- 
rial to make keen competition. In the young female class Mr. 
Gorringe scored a decided victory. In the class for tups under 
eighteen months old, Lord Walsingham was invincible, with a 
handsome fourteen-month tup, very good on the back, true in 
form, and well-covered with flesh, though he might have been a 
trifle neater about the head. He was got by the first-prize winner 
at the " Royal " at Birmingham, and out of a ewe by " Royal 
Manchester." Closely following came a fourteen-month tup, 
showing grand style, fine-turned quarters, and excellent front, 
owned by Mr. Hugh Gorringe, Kingston-by-Sea, Shoreham, 
Sussex. His quality and wool were very good, but he would have 
been better with a little more flesh along the back. Mr. J. J. 
Colman, M.P., of Carrow House, Norwich, ranked third with a 
short, thick, neat tup of the same age ; the Messrs. Emery, of 
Hurston Place, Pulborough, Sussex, came fourth with a son 
of " Old Hurston," and out of " Battersea." 
In the old tup class, Lord Walsingham again came to the 
front, the successful animal in this case being " Royal Birming- 
ham," the sire of the first-prize young tup. First at Birmingham 
in the young class, ajid at Liverpool last year in the old class, 
