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always a favourite, his rakish-looking forelock and the pure 
whiteness of his coat winnin? admiration. In the agricultural 
world, the breed has done great service. Since its admission to 
distinct classes at the International Show in Battersea Park, 
1862, its course has been steadily upward ; and although the 
Cotswold did not, like the Leicester in the days of Bakewell, 
take the world by storm, it is gradually and surely working its 
way ; for it possesses that solid and undeniable merit which 
secures extensive if not the readiest recognition. Like the 
Leicester, it has proved an important agent in the composition 
of other breeds, and its ancient origin, great modern improve- 
ment, and distinctness of type, entitle it to a high place among 
our leading breeds. To say, as quoted above, that the classes 
uphold the character of the breed, is to give much praise in few 
words, for the Cotswold has a high character to uphold. In 
anything like ordinary classes, the sheep from the Royal 
Agricultural College Farm must have come to the front. They 
were, as usual, highly creditable to their breeder and exhibitor. 
In the shearling-ram class the well-known flocks of Messrs. 
Gillett, both of Oaklands and of Kilkenny (Oxfordshire), were 
strongly represented in number and quality, and one of a large 
contingent from the flock of Mr. T. Brown, of Marham Hall, 
Norfolk, received the first prize, while in the class for any other 
age, a splendid two-shear ram from the same flock — good either 
way, for mutton or for wool, with an attractive and sufficiently 
masculine look about him— was also first winner. The onlv 
other exhibitors besides those mentioned, in either of the ram 
classes, were Mr. J. J. Godwin, of Troy Farm (who got one 
commendation), and Mr. J. Corbett Hatherell, of Chippenham. 
In the classes for ewes and lambs, other names are in the first 
places, Mr. R. Jacobs, of Burford, being the exhibitor of the 
first prize ewes, a remarkably well-assorted lot, much alike, of 
beautiful character, and of that even well-knit form which 
detracts from the impression of size, but is favourable to great 
proportionate weight ; and Mr. E. Tombs, of Bampton, showing 
the first prize lambs. Only half-a-dozen pens of lambs were 
exhibited, and they, very fairly for so unfavourable a season, 
did justice to the breed. In the older classes several animals 
had more or less of grey upon the face and legs, and this, so far 
as might be gathered by inference from the awards, was accounted 
in some measure to their disadvantage, although one case, 
that of Mr. John Gillett's third prize shearling ram, seemed to 
show that the objection, if considered as such, was a minor one 
in the eyes of the Judges. 
Lincolns numbered 59 entries, 11 of which were abseat. 
The same Judges, who are so sparing of commendation in 
