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The entries were limited, and with two or three exceptions not up to the 
usual standard of this very useful breed of sheep. 
The flock best represented was that of Mr. J. S. S. Godwin, 
of Hazelwood, Hadlow, whose sheep were not only of superior 
form and quality, but had also the finer sort of wool which too 
many of the competing animals wanted. All the prizes in the 
shearling ram class went to sheep of this flock, besides first 
prizes in the older ram and shearling ewe classes. Among 
the happy exceptions to the mediocrity of the classes were 
Mr. Henry Rigden's two-shear rams ; and the best lambs were 
those of Mr. Page. 
The next breed to which the order of the classes in the 
Catalogue brings me — the Oxfordshire Down — formed a very 
prominent feature of the show, in Inagnitude third on the list, 
the Southdown and Shropshire breeds only exceeding it, and 
the Hampshire immediately following it, in the number of 
animals entered. This excess was partly owing to the larger 
proportionate number of pens of ewes and lambs in the classes 
of these breeds. The Oxfordshire Down, for instance, had only 
5 entries more than the Leicester, yet the number of animals 
entered was 53 in excess of the Leicesters. The following is 
the Report of the Judges : — 
Class 159. Shearling Earns. — Contained thirty-five entries of very useful 
sheep. Although there is nothing of exceptional merit, we consider them a 
good class. 
Class 160. Aged Rams. — Only five entries, four of which are particularly 
good. 
Class 161. Shearling Ewes. — Thirteen pens, many of them very good. 
Most of the entries iu this class received high commendations. 
Class 162. Ewe Lambs. — Twelve entries. Several useful pens rather low 
in condition. 
JoHX Bryan. 
James P. Case. 
The Catalogue gives 37 entries of shearling rams, and the 
Steward reported three absentees. In the next two classes there 
was no difference between the Judges' figures and the numbers in 
the Catalogue ; but three of the twelve pens of lambs were absent. 
Mr. Treadwell exhibited no fewer than ten in the shearling 
ram class, remarkably fine sheep, and won the first prize for 
an exceedingly true-shaped and level animal, with plenty of 
masculine character, a son of " The Swell," his second prize 
aged ram. Four of them were by the same sire, two by a sheep 
entitled " Earl of Beaconsfield," two by " Royal Liverpool," the 
third winner in the aged class, and one was, so far as the 
Catalogue entry is concerned, of unrecorded paternity. To 
meet such a lot required good material ; yet one exhibitor, 
Mr. Brassey, of Heythrop Park, was able to carry second and 
