exhibited at Kilhurn. 
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examined half-a-dozen of the class. At Kilburn, alas ! the 
devoted husband, the loving father, the genial friend, the warm- 
hearted neighbour, the safe adviser, was not! And many a one 
at the ring side was heard to exclaim, " How one misses poor 
Booth!" In him it may well be said the Royal Society lost 
one of its wisest councillors, and agricultural progress- a most 
zealous, untiring, and able advocate. May his sons take ex- 
ample from a noble-minded father, a true patriot, an honest 
man ! 
Class 57. Bulls over Tliree-y ears-old. — Of the eighteen entries 
in this class, the goodly number of 16 came before the Judges, 
and the frequent expression of competent onlookers was that 
they were "a grand lot." Several of the older animals have 
been winners at the Royal and other leading Shows more 
often than can be here enumerated, and it was open to question 
whether their owners acted wisely in still subjecting them to the 
fatigue which is inseparable from Showy ard life. And here it 
may be suggested as worthy of consideration by the Council 
whether, instead of encouraging matured male animals to com- 
pete again and again in the ordinary class, they might not, 
somewhat after the Scotch fashion, offer a champion-prize, to be 
competed for only by previous winners in the leading class 
of bulls. 
Notably among the "old" bulls at Kilburn was Mr. John 
Outhwaite's " Royal Windsor" (29,890), who, at ten years and 
five months old, astonished everybody by his freshness; and it 
was not until a long debate amongst the Judges that he was 
placed so low as fourth. 
The first prize went to Lord Rathdonnell's " Anchor," 
(32,947), an Irish bull, bred by Mr. Chaloner, who was one of 
the Judges, and who on this account very wisely and with good 
grace declined to interfere in the class until his colleagues had 
disposed of "Anchor" by awarding him chief honours. This 
bull, unlike too many in the cla>s, had the great additional 
recommendation of being exhibited in moderate working con- 
dition. He has a fine masculine head, well-formed substantial 
horn, prominent eye, deep and very wide breast, mellow touch, 
hide a trifle thin, shoulder-points neat, chine somewhat narrow, 
plates bare, flanks deep, hind-quarters very good, and thighs 
nicely covered with flesh, even to the hock-joints. Some might 
think him just the least bit " on-leg," but in this respect 
he improved on acquaintance, and his uniform neatness and 
evenness, and lightness of offal, stamped him as a grand Short- 
horn. The Judges say in their Report that one of their number 
(and there were then only two acting) would have placed 
