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Southdowns, and had the benefit of advice from that dis- 
tinguished breeder and judge, Jonas Webb. In 1855 he 
founded a flock with fifteen ewes in-lamb, each of which cost 
I'l/., and two years later he made a further importation of one 
ram and fiftv-five ewes. He is said to have personally superin- 
tended the management of his valuable flock, and it is pleasing 
to note that his success has been most gratifying. The sheep 
he exhibited on this occasion were indeed thoroughly good 
specimens, such as anv English breeder might be proud to 
exhibit. His first-prize young tup was a little light round 
the waist, but very good on the loins and quarters. His first- 
prize pen of gimmers were neat, finer in the bone than most 
of the others, and showed more character and better quality 
even than his tups. The second-prize aged tup, also shown by 
Count de Bouille, had fair style, good form and excellent 
quarters, but was. a trifle long in the legs, and slightly rough 
about the head. He was again second in the ewe class with 
birge fleshy sheep, coming wonderfully up to the true South- 
down character. M. Xouette-Delorme's sheep, as a rule, showed, 
if anything, a better quality than those of the Count de Bouille, 
but, all over, the advantage either wa}- was insignificant. 
M, Xouette-Delorme's first-prize aged tup was a heavy sheep, 
twenty-five months old, very good on the thighs, and grand in 
the neck. His first-prize ewes were not well matched. In the 
young tup class he came second with a thirteen-month ram, 
of satisfactory size, good top, well-sprung rib, and rich cover of 
flesh, but somewhat lacking in style. He occupied a similar posi- 
tion in the young female class, with a pen of small but very uni- 
form sheep, with fine bone. Several tickets of very honourable and 
honourable mention were also awarded to the Count de Bouille 
and M. Xouette-Delorme, between whom the contest was warm 
and interesting. The third prize in the old tup class w ent to a 
short thick sheep, good on the loins, but bare on the shoulder, 
owned by M. de Villepin, of Jupilles, Sarthe ; while the corre- 
sponding premium in the ewe class fell to a very fair pen 
shown by Baron de Saint-Priest, of Parage, Tarn-et-Garonne. 
In each of the two young classes M. Boulay, of Jonvelle, Haute- 
Saone, came third with sheep of the Swiss breed. It is evident 
that the Southdown takes kindly to the climate of France : and 
on the whole the breed was well represented in the French Divi- 
sion of the Exhibition. Special prizes of objects of art were 
awarded to the Count de Bouille and M. Xouette-Delorme, for 
their groups of Southdowns. M. E. Teisserenc de Bort, jun., of 
Saint-Priest-Taurion, Haute- Vienne, had forwarded, for exhi- 
bition only, a few very good sheep of the Southdown breed. 
Cross-Brcd Sheep. — Much as the Merino breed has been 
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