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flocks which supplied the principal winners, Mr. Nelson's and 
Mr. Leathes', are kept on the western side of the district which 
produces the Herdwicks. Mr. Browne's prize-takers came from 
a more inland part, Troutbeck. 
Ag-ain, in order to introduce the Judges' notes more fitly, I must 
not follow closely the order of the breeds in the Catalogue ; but, 
still leaving the Devon Longwool, turn to the Ryland, Somerset 
and Dorset, Dartmoor, Exmoor, and Limestone classes. As the 
Herdwick is specially adapted to the mountains and mountain 
spurs of the English lake district, and the Lonk to the high 
moors and " fells " on both sides of the adjoining borders of the 
counties of Lancaster and York (more intimately associated, by 
its name, with " Loncashire "), so the Limestone sheep has its 
own particular range on the quickly drying limestone crags of 
southern Westmoreland, partly projected into North Lancashire, 
and cannot live on a damp soil or in a misty atmosphere. The 
Atlantic clouds about Skiddaw, and the long-lying rain-water on 
the Yorkshire and Lancashire moors, would be alike fatal to him. 
As an illustration of what I am compelled to term the " local- 
ising " tendencies of sheep, I may mention the fact, that a flock 
of Black-faced mountain or moorland sheep, habituated for gene- 
rations to one side of a certain hill, has been known to dete- 
riorate and suffer loss on removal to the other side of the same 
hill. The ewes, however, of the Limestone breed, make invalu- 
able stock to cross with the Leicester ram for the production of 
half-bred sheep suitable to the vales immediately below their 
native heights, although the pure breed is necessary for the 
crag, and the crag for the pure breed. The type, very much like 
the Dorset on a larger scale, was well represented in the five 
entries at Kilburn, all from one exhibitor ; but the Inspectors of 
Shearing disqualified them all, 
Mr. Wm. Taylor, who gained the two first prizes for Ryland 
sheep, was the only exhibitor. 
The Somerset and Dorset horned breed had 14 entries, 10 of 
rams and four of pens of ewes, only one pen of ewes being 
absent. In each of the ram classes the contest was among the 
sheep of three exhibitors, all having very good specimens. Mr. 
Herbert Farthing took both prizes for shearling rams, and the 
second prize in the older ram class, Mr. J. C. Culverwell's three- 
shear taking the first ; while in both classes Mr. John Mayo had 
the reserve and commended sheep. For ewes, Mr. Alayo gained 
the second prize and a commendation ; a fourth exhibitor, Mr. 
E. G. Legg, bringing into competition an admirable pen of ewes, 
for which he received the first prize. 
There is little to be added to the Judges' notes (given on 
p. 657) on the Dartmoor sheep, of which 15 rams and 15 ewes 
