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third honours ; Mr. George Adams's good robust-looking sheep 
followed, having the reserved number and a high commenda- 
tion ; three of Mr. Treadwell's strong contingent were selected 
for high commendations, and one was simply commended. Of 
half-a-dozen sent by Mr. Charles Hobbs, four received com- 
mendatory notices, high or otherwise, and several of the sheep 
of Mr. Charles Howard and of Messrs. Frederick and George 
Street, were specially noticed by the Judges, and were, indeed, 
of a very useful stamp. There is notable evidence of the great 
amount of skill devoted to sheep-breeding, when so high an 
average of excellence is found in a class in which, as the Judges 
tiuly observe, "There is nothing of exceptional merit." 
The four " particularly good " aged rams (vide the Judges' 
Report above) were Mr. Charles Hobbs's two-shear, a good 
sheep in capital condition, Mr. Treadwell's two, " The Swell " 
and " Royal Liverpool," and Messrs. J. and F. Howard's " Sir 
Charles," a four-year-old sheep, bred by Mr. Charles Howard. 
They won in the same order as here named, the last, an ex- 
cellent sheep, whose width is evenly continued from end to end, 
having the reserved number and a high commendation, the three 
others the prizes. Mr. Treadwell's are both three-year-old 
sheep, and both by Mr. Milton Druce's " Freeland," who, first 
winner at the Philadelphia Show, was let to an American 
breeder, two years ago, for 85 guineas. " The Swell," a really 
grand sheep — large, wide through the heart, with an immense 
fore-flank — was a very close rival of Mr. Hobbs's first-prize 
ram ; and " Royal Liverpool," who had his half-brother's form 
of fore-quarters, apparently of even greater proportion, from his 
being, at the time of show, somewhat " tucked up " in the 
paunch, was just good enough to come in before Messrs. 
Howard's " Sir Charles," already described. The four made 
their class a very attractive feature of its department of the 
Show. 
Besides the three prizes and the reserve, seven high com- 
mendations and one commendation were awarded to the Oxford- 
shire Down ewes. Mr. Treadwell had here again first honours 
for a pen of closely matched ewes, with broad and evenly 
fleshed backs. They were by his prize rams, '• Royal Liver- 
pool " and " The Swell." He also showed two other pens, both 
highly commended. Mr. George Adams was very successful, 
exhibiting two pens, and gaining the second prize and reserve ; 
and Mr. Albert Rrassey (Heythrop Park) showed only one pen, 
which took the third prize. Messrs. J. and F. Howard, F. Street, 
G. Street, and C. Howard, were the exhibitors of the remaining 
pens distinguished by judicial notice, and described in the 
foregoing report as " very good." The lambs, although the 
