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abandantly testified to at every show, but never more so than on the present 
occasion at Kilbum, where, whenever any homlesa animals appeared in a 
class, they invariably scored the highest number of points. 
H. S. Holmes-Peg LEE. 
Waltee Feeeiia>'. 
Pigs. 
The Large White Breed was represented by entries of 13 
boars, 10 pens of three young- breeding sows of the same litter, 
and 10 sows in single entry. The latter was quite the best 
class, and the Earl of EUesmere's " Empress," and " Queen of 
Sheba " (titles are becoming fashionable in porcine nomencla- 
ture) deserved the two leading places, although they had no 
mean rivals in the entries of Mr. Peter Eden and Messrs. 
Howard. In the Older Boar Class also, Lord EUesmere's 
entries were first and second, closely followed by one of Mr. 
Duckering's '■ Cultivators." There was too much hollowing of 
the face about some of the boars, contrary to the established type 
of the breed, and the Judges made a very good selection, as 
regards the outline of the head, in placing Messrs. Howard s 
young boar first in his class. In the pens of young sows there 
was nothing worthy of special remark. 
The Small White Breed, in which a certain sort of resemblance 
to the pug-dog is orthodox — although we must take care not to 
allow the larger breed to become merely magnified specimens 
of the small-breed tvpe, — was much more strongly represented 
as regards quality, and the numbers were, 25 boars, 5 pens of 
three sow pigs, and 15 breeding sows. The Earl of EUesmere's 
herd was first again in a large and good class of young boars, 
but in a super-excellent class of older boars gained only second 
honours, Mr. Sanders Spencer's " Esau " taking the first. The 
class, 11 entries (two of which were absent), was so good that 
the Judges highly commended the whole, including other boars 
from the same herds and from those of Lord Moreton, Mr. C. E. 
Duckering, and Mr. A. Crowther. The Earl of EUesmere's two 
pens of sow pigs won with tolerable ease over !Mr. Spencer's 
three entries, thus paying off the score of defeat in the previous 
class ; but there was no comparison between the classes, the 
boars being infinitely superior. In a strong contest. Lord 
^Sloreton's entry was first, and the Worsley Hall entry second, 
among the breeding sows. 
The Small Black Breed was not quite so well supported as it 
might have been ; the boars, with two or three creditable excep- 
tions, showing only mediocre character. The sows, however, 
were very much better. With so many good herds of this 
variety as we have in the country, it is a pity that stronger 
