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indeed. M. Guerin's two pens of ewes were also of excellent 
quality, winning second and reserve. His well-grown eighteen- 
months ram came in a good second between two of M. Bailleau's, 
and another high commendation v/as adjudged to a ram a year 
older from the same flock, which, like M. Bailleau's, contributed 
six entries of rams — just half the class. It is a matter of regret 
that the German Merino classes were empty, as the variation in 
type and wool, under different circumstances of selection, climate, 
and pasturage, would have been exceedingly interesting for com- 
parison and study ; and the foundation-stock of the breed, the 
Spanish Merino, was represented only by one ram and one pen 
of ewes, all bred in the Isle of Wight, and exhibited by Mr. H. H. 
Hammick, their breeder. It is difficult for the eye trained to 
appreciate the model forms of our own most highl}- improved 
breeds, to see beauty in the strikingly peculiar character of the 
Merino, whatever his modern nationality. We have grown 
accustomed to form our notions of beauty solely from models of 
utility ; and thus, while educating the judgment in one direction, 
find it somewhat cramped when we look abroad. For this 
reason, perhaps, the Merinos at Kilburn did not receive from 
British sheep- breeders all the attention to which their world- 
wide fame and special claims as wool producers fairly entitled 
them ; yet the Exhibition could not fail to do good (and it would 
have been proportionately more useful with better filled foreign 
classes), for there can be no question that international shows 
tend to remove prejudices and give expansiveness to tastes and 
judgment. 
In the classes for pure Long-woolled Sheep, not Merinos, and 
pure Short-woolled Sheep, not Merinos, of any English or 
foreign race, bred in any country except the United Kingdom, 
there were few entries. In the Short-wool class the only repre- 
sentatives of foreign sheep were two rams and one pen of ewes of 
the white four-horned breed, exhibited by Mr. Watts, of Whistley 
House, Devizes, Wiltshire, and bred by himself in Peru upon 
the grass plains of the Andes. The rams have each four flat, 
curled, well-developed horns ; the ewes sometimes have horns, 
of much less and slighter growth than those of the males, and 
sometimes only four small " horn-buds " (if they may be so called), 
vouchers for the full number of horns in their male offspring. 
These sheep are said to be prolific, capable of being grazed to 
good weight (wethers about 32 lbs., ewes 24 lbs. per quarter), 
and to yield a fair clip of wool. Mr. Watts told me that he has 
found the average about 7 lbs. or 8 lbs. the fleece, exclusive of 
the ewes' wool, which weighs about 1 lb. less ; and his sheep, 
imported from Peru, do remarkably well, and gain in substance 
upon his Wiltshire farm. 
