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was large and astonishingly good, the breeds represented being 
the Berkshire, Yorkshire, Middlesex, Essex, Windsor, and 
Suffolk. M. Poisson, Director of the Farm-school of Launoy, 
Cher, showed some beautiful specimens of the Middlesex breed, 
and won with them the first prize in each of the two classes ; and 
also the 1000-franc prize for the best group of swine in the Ex- 
hibition, a success which reflects the highest credit on M. 
Poisson's skill and management. The second prizes in both 
classes went to pigs of the Yorkshire breed ; and to a group of 
this sort owned bv M. Xoblet, of Chateau-Renard, Loiret, a 
special "prize of honour" was awarded. In the boar class, 
Berkshire pigs came seventh and eighth ; while a Berkshire sow 
got third in her class. On the whole, the Yorkshire breed was 
rather better represented than its friendly rival the Berkshire. 
M. E. Teisserenc de Bort sent, for exhibition only, a few superb 
pigs of the Suffolk and \ orkshire breeds. 
The Horse Show. 
The Horse Show, which took place in the same enclosure as 
the display of cattle, sheep, and swine, opened on the 1st and 
closed on the 10th of September. The courts in which the 
cattle were exhibited were transformed into commodious and 
comfortable stables, each animal having to itself a loose box, 
enclosed partly by wood and partly by iron railing. The 
general arangements for the horse show were not so satisfactory 
as those for the other live-stock display. It was intended that, 
in the horse show, the contest in every class should partake of 
an international character, and thuj horses from all nations 
were grouped together. There was no distinction of breed ; 
all draught horses, for instance, of a certain height being shown 
in one class. In the majority of the classes three first, three 
second, and three third prizes were offered, and it was left to the 
discretion of the jurors to award one or all of these premiums to 
one nation. The result of this was, that in several of the classes 
the international character of the contest was let slip. The 
French jurors saw most merit in the French horses, the British 
jurors thought the British horses best, the Belgians could not get 
past their own breeds, and the warm international rivalry was 
cooled by an agreement to award one first, one second, and one 
third prize to each of these three nations. An arrangement was 
made whereby each nation's horses were stalled together, but all 
the many different breeds were mixed up in a confused condi- 
tion ; while, to make confusion worse confounded, the catalogue, 
except in a few cases, did not specifv the breed. Another, and 
perha])s still more substantial cause for dissatisfaction, was the 
