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second-prize ewes and ewe lambs, but no other exhibitor had 
more than one prize, a fact which accords with the remark in 
the introductory paragraph of the Judges' Report, concerning 
the large number of exhibitors among whom the honours were 
distributed. The entries of Lord Walsingham and Messrs. 
Rigden, H. Humphrey, and F. M. Jones, each took a single 
prize ; and the very many exhibitors who have the credit 
attaching to the reserved numbers, high commendations, and 
commendations in these excellent classes, would make a list too 
long for insertion here. The number of prizes, of course, was 
limited to twelve, so that it was impossible to give to many sheep 
of very high merit any more substantial recognition than the 
card of commendation. Mr. Rigden's first-prize shearling ram 
has the beautifully moulded form of his breed, with rather more 
than ordinary length, and what is expressively termed " a bright 
look-out," that gaiety or smartness of style which high blood 
alone can give. Lord Walsingham's capital shearlings had the 
second prize and reserved number, divided by a Sandringham 
ram ; and perhaps it is due to the Merton flock to say that the 
sire of the first-prize sheep was a well-known Merton ram. 
Messrs. J. and A. Heasman and H. Humphrey showed some 
very good sheep in the same class. In the older ram class, Mr. 
Colman's two-shear, a good model for shape, and very " ripe," 
well covered with flesh from head to tail, had powerful rivals in 
jVIr. Henry Humphrey's ram (placed second), and a handsome 
three-shear, bred and exhibited by the Prince of Wales. Two 
excellent rams, shown by Mr. Hugh Goninge, who also bred 
them, had the reserved number, a high commendation, and a 
commendation ; and a strong force from Merton, one three-shear 
and four two-shear rams, of the stamp so well known, received 
only a couple of commendations ; but as the Judges well observe, 
many of the sheep in this class, besides those to which the 
prizes were awarded, were of great merit. Indeed, had all the 
winners been absent, the class must still have been described as 
a good one, and the Kingston and Merton sheep would have been 
well worthy to receive the prizes. Perhaps in the whole Show 
there was not a more remarkable sight than the view over the 
100 Southdown shearling ewes, brought close together in 2(5 pens 
of five — so large a number of animals, from so many flocks, yet 
so little varying in type. It was really a wonderful result of an 
incalculable amount of skilled labour, considering the processes 
of thoughtful selection, over a long course of years, necessary to 
give such uniformity as was here exemplified, in and among the 
numerous flocks of which the pens at Kilburn were representa- 
tives. Estimated according to an intelligent view of this class 
of sheep alone, the work of the stock-breeder, in its highet 
