Goats, and Pigs at Kilburn. 
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awake to these tjpal distinctions, and showed, by various 
awards, an intelligent appreciation of their importance. 
Other Breeds were, from the excellence of the older boar and 
breeding-sow classes, rather striking features of the Show. The 
younger boars, although Mr. Nuttall won the first prize for a 
very good pig, were not as a class remarkable, and the sow pigs 
in pens of three were poor, some of them under-sized and in low 
condition. Mr. Nuttall's " Tichborne," first in the capital 
older class, is the sire of his first among the young boars. The 
Earl of Ellesmere's, and two exhibited by Mr. Peter Eden, were 
also very excellent pigs ; while for sows, the Earl of EUesmere 
again had both prizes, Mr. Eden following with a well-earned 
reserve. The Judges report : — 
Class 218. — Very medium ; showing an amount of cross-breeding. 
Class 219. — Small comijetition ; the first and second prizes going to 
animals of superior merit. 
Class 220. — Below an average, and several disqualifications. 
Class 221. — The large-bred sows were a good lot ; the first prize being of 
great substance and superior quality. 
Class 2-2. — Small boars of the white breed were a good class, the first 
honours going to a compact pig, very deep and level in flesh, and good hair ; 
defeating a good-haired pig, but a little short in his quarter: several of the 
younger boars were absent. 
Class 223.— The aged class, all so good as to be highly commended, the 
winners being good specimens : consequently, the competition was very 
close ; but the superior quality of a fourteen-months aged pig gained him 
the first prize. 
Class 224. — A poor competition. 
Class 225. — The sows, like the boars, created a severe struggle for honours, 
the prize as well as the commended ones being of superior quality. 
Class 226. — The small black boars in the younger class were very poor. 
Class 227. — The aged ones were a littb. better, the prize going to a pig 
with a little deficient coat. 
Class 228.— No entry. 
Class 229k — This was the best lot in this section, the first-prize sow showing 
a great amount of constitution, and all were very good. 
Class 230. — The Berkshires we found a large entry, but scarcely up 
to the quality of former years, excepting the prize-winners. 
Class 231. — A lot of strong pigs, the first being of excellent quality, very 
even in flesh, good in head and hair, and defeating a good three-year-old pig, 
whose flesh is falling off his back, but having great frame. 
Class 232. — A moderate class. 
Class 233. — Berkshire sows have been for several years the most numerous 
class, and this year was no exception, but the quality of the whole was 
deficient excepting the placed animals, and we found nothing very special. 
Class 234. — A poor small class of cross-bred boars. 
Class 235. — This being a good class, the comiietition was close between the 
first three pigs : ultimately, a straight, heavy-fleshed animal was chosen for 
the premier honours. 
Class 23G.— Moderate. 
Class 237. — Some very useful sows; the first prize going to a compact 
auimal of great quality ; the second being also good, with rather faulty loins. 
We are happy to congratulate the Society on the absence of all overfed 
