Goats, and Pigs at Kilburn. 
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merit in the sheep to which prizes— vouchers of merit — wore 
actually awarded, but is to bo taken as meaning that, by dis- 
qualification, animals of merit were excluded. The merit, how- 
ever, of the Roscommon classes, was not very great. 
In three classes open to " other British Long-wooUed breeds, 
not qualified to compete in any of the preceding classes of Long- 
woolled sheep," there were no entries. 
In going over an exhibition of sheep, especially one upon so 
large a scale as that at Kilburn, one necessarily hears a great 
variety of opinions upon the animals, the judging, the Inspec- 
tion of Shearing, and everything else connected with the classes. 
At Kilburn, unless it was the topic of the rain that exhausted 
the powers of grumblers, there was apparently less than average 
dissatisfaction in proportion to the magnitude of the Show, with 
legard to the decisions. With trifling exceptions, 1 very 
heartily concur in the Reports of the Judges ; and in all cases, if 
not thoroughly in accord with them, I have deferred to their 
opinions, which are authoritative, and should be, I submit, 
cheerfully left undisputed by any exhibitors who may have 
expected better success than they met with. Differences of taste 
and judgment must always exist, but why let disappointment 
mar the harmony of men whose very rivalry should make them 
friends? The public see the animals exhibited, and those 
among them who know anything of live-stock will draw their 
own conclusions from their own observations. With regard to 
the question of disqualification, I feel bound to point out that 
in no case do the Judges express dissent from the opinions of 
the Inspectors, but that, on the contrary, in several instances, 
they are studious to avow their approval of the course which the 
Inspectors had taken. 
Foreign Sheep. 
The Foreign Sheep Department had its chief strength in the 
French Merino classes, and they, containing 12 rams and 
3 pens of ewes, owed their prominence to the entries of only two 
exhibitors, M. Marin Bailleau, of Illiers, Eure-et-Loir, and M. 
Manceau Guerin of Chartres. M. Bailleau sent 6 rams and 
1 pen of ewes, and won the first prize in each class, besides 
other honours. A year's difference in age was perhaps mainly 
accountable for some variation in the character and wool of his 
rams, but it was not wholly so. Possibly the exhibitor had 
selected representative specimens of two sub-types which his 
well-known flock can produce. His ewes, well matched in 
their general characteristics, differed a little in degrees of merit, 
the worst, however, being good, and the best a fine specimen 
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