Report on the Exhibition of Live Stock at Hull. 
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the horses in the Show-yard, operate against our success in this 
department. With regard to the first of these objections I have 
no doubt the Council will consider them before the next prize- 
sheet is arranged ; but I fear we cannot lessen the number of 
days for the Show. The conditions attached by individuals and 
by local societies to the prizes they offer frequently differ widely 
from our own, and the Council should now decide whether it is 
advisable or not to accept any prizes to which conditions are 
attached. This would involve much alteration in the prize- 
sheet, and we must not any longer be restricted to giving prizes 
only for breeding animals, and especially with regard to horses, 
the scarcity being everywhere admitted. We should travel out 
of our old track, and offer prizes for all useful sorts ; and 
although at first we might not have much competition in some 
of the new classes, we should, by degrees, induce farmers to pay 
more attention to what has become a very profitable part of their 
business. When fair, useful cart-horses are worth from 70/. to 
130/. each (to say nothing of entire horses, some of which were 
sold in the Show-yard for 500/., 350/., 240/., and 220/.) ; four- 
year-old hunters from 150/. to 300/. ; carriage-horses, hacks, and 
ponies, at proportionately high prices — it is clearly the duty of the 
Royal Agricultural Society to encourage as much as possible 
horse-breeding in England. I saw in a dealer's yard at Hull 
several carriage-horses and hacks, all bred in Germany, with 
more quality and better action than most English horses. These 
were chiefly from English mares by English sires ; and we 
should offer some inducement to prevent the best of these going 
abroad. 
There were 275 horses entered, and of these 37 were absent. 
At Cardiff the entries were 324, and at Wolverhampton 357 ; so 
that in number we were far below the two last meetings. The 
Agricultural and Clydesdale horses mustered well ; but the Suffolk, 
for which 145/. was offered in prizes, had only five stallions (in 
two classes), one brood-mare, and three fillies — about the same 
number as at Cardiff. In the leport last year Mr. Corbet called 
attention to the small number of Suffolks, and said : " If the 
classes be continued at Hull, the eastern counties must make a 
far stronger demonstration for Yorkshire, or people will say the 
Suffolk are going out of fashion." Hull is not very distant from 
the eastern counties, the home of Suffolk horses, and it cannot be 
said that the above hint has had much effect, or more would have 
been exhibited. Certainly the few which were shown were 
good specimens. 
Mr. Barthropp, of Hacheston, Suffolk ; Mr. Swale, of Sandon, 
Wolverhampton ; and Mr. Turnbull, of Cresswell, Northumber- 
land, the Judges of Agricultural Horses, report as follows : — 
