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animals in the above classes, and on the whole the quality was equal to former 
years, the disqualifications not being quite so numerous. 
John Angus. 
John Lynn. 
Joseph SiMith. 
We cannot hope to reach such a state of perfection that all 
shall be couleur de rose in the Report upon an International Show 
of the Royal Agricultural Society of England : indeed, the great 
usefulness of the Society's exhibitions of live-stock, whether 
national or international, is probably in the opportunities 
afforded to breeders of seeing both the weak and the strong 
points of all that is going on among them ; as the great meetings 
in connection with art, science, and manufacture bring to light 
not only progress accomplished, but circumstances which impede 
progress. After fairly reviewing the various classes of sheep, 
goats, and pigs at Kiiburn, and accepting as evidence, at its duly 
high value, the independent Reports of the Judges in the several 
departments, we must, I think, agree that the aggregate of tes- 
timony appears highly creditable to British breeders ; and that 
the yearly exhibitions of the Society have greatly aided the de- 
velopment of merit, must be readily acknowledged. With regard 
to Foreign breeds, the want of stronger competition and more 
adequate representation is to be regretted. Many circumstances, 
including necessarily strict quarantine regulations, combined 
upon this occasion to deter owners from sending their stock to 
England. 
XXV. — Report on Butter, Cheese, Provisions, Sj-c, at Kiiburn. 
By Professor BALDWIN, of Glasnevin, Dublin. 
The Society has been pleased to invite me to report on forty-five 
classes of the great International Exhibition held at Kiiburn. 
As many of these classes are of great importance, I accepted the 
office of official Reporter with great pleasure. 
The Kiiburn Show has been the third great International 
Agricultural Exhibition I have attended. The first was the 
great Meeting at Paris in 1856, and the second was at Battersea 
in 1862. I examined each of these great Shows with the keenest 
interest. I saw every animal, every implement and object of 
interest exhibited at each of them. 
In extent, in variety, and above all in its educational aspects, 
the Kiiburn Show far surpassed the others. In a few sections 
Battersea excelled it. In foreign stock the Paris Exhibition of 
1856 surpassed it; but, taken as a whole, it throws both into 
the shade. 
