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useful treed. Xo. 1128, second prize, has nice qualitj-, good coat, colour and 
character. Nos. 111^2. 1132, 1134 were of great merit; and the remainder of 
the class so good that we could do no other than commend them. 
The Champion prize for males was awarded to the yearling No. 106'4 ; the 
reserve number being iu the old class. No. 1048. 
The Champion prize for females was given to No. 1099, in the Cow class; 
the reserve number to No. 1107, in the In-Calf Heifer class. 
John Noakes. 
JosiAH Pitcher. 
Thomas Fulcher. 
LONGHORNS. 
The history of this breed has so recently been described by 
Mr. Nevill Fitt in the pages of this Journal,* that it will 
be sufficient here to mention that about thirty years ago entire 
herds of this picturesque useful breed were few and far between. 
It may also be mentioned here that until quite within recent 
date Longhorns were not allotted separate classes at the Royal 
Shows ; they simply competed in a mixed or miscellaneous 
class of " crosses, or any other breed," from which Shorthorns 
and the more favoured breeds were excluded. In 1862, however, 
at Battersea, separate classes were opened for this interesting 
old-established race, and the result was a display such as to 
convince even opponents of the breed that, far from becoming 
extinct, the " curly-coats " were in the ascendant. Stimulated 
by their success at this the first international gathering, and by 
the admiration bestowed on their exhibits by shrewd practical 
men, the leading breeders — to wit. His Grace the Duke of 
Buckingham and Chandos, and many others too numerous to 
mention — endeavoured, like the north-country wrestler, to 
"mend their hold," and, having done this, they seem determined 
to keep it. At any rate it must be honestly admitted that 
Longhorns are extending themselves beyond their original home 
of Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and 
the adjacent counties ; and it was plainly visible from the 
classes at Kilburn that, in addition to the formation of a Long- 
horn Herd-book, very great care indeed is now being bestowed 
on their cultivation. Great length of frame, deep ribs, well- 
covered backs and loins, heavy flesh, majestic carriage 'and 
remarkable similarity, are outwardly visible marks of the breed : 
while they enjoy a reputation for yielding, on poor herbage, 
a fair measure of milk, singularly rich in caseine (or cheese), 
and producing quite the average percentage of butter ; and 
when slaughtered they abound in lean flesh, and weigh well to 
their appearance. And now a few words on the classes. 
* Second series, vol. xii., p. 459, 1S76. 
