510 Report on the Exhibition of Live Stock at Hull. 
were seven animals exhibited, all being of fair merit. The first prize, a 
grey, about IG hands, was excellent, being large, with capital crest, long 
shoulders, a thick middle, and very good legs, big and flat, his quarters 
rather slack, but action perfect. The second, an ajed mule, about 16 
hands, brown, had good quality, with well-made middle and quarters, but 
a little light in bone for heavy agricultural work, at which she had evidently 
been well employed. The third prize, a younger and smaller mule, three years 
old, brown, showed great style, with the prospect of being, when in her prime 
(7 years old), a large useful animal ; she had fine shoulders and good legs ; 
her action was poor, but owing to rawness more than incapacity. A brown 
4-year-old mule, about 16 hands, not for competition, came next in merit to 
the grey, having capital shoulders, middle and quarters, very big legs and 
feet ; action very good. Though the classes were only moderately filled (as to 
number), it was a good commencement, and we sincerely hope this useful class 
of animal, which Mr. Pease and others are so pluckily trying to introduce 
amongst the agriculturists of England for draught work, will be in time largely 
bred and widely used, for we consider them in every way suitable for heavy 
work, where strength, pluck, and endurance are essential points. 
It will be recollected that a few years since a suggestion was 
made at the Council in favour of giving prizes for donkeys and 
mules. The matter was some time under discussion, and the 
Council decided by a large majority that such prizes would not 
be desirable. The exhibition at Hull was under different 
auspices, as the whole of the prizes, amounting to 100/., were 
given by Mr. Pease. It is, perhaps, ungracious to say a word 
against prizes so liberally offered ; but the general opinion in 
the Showyard was not in favour of the practice being continued, 
and in this I entirely concur. Surely it would be far better to 
increase our classes for horses than to encourage the breeding 
of animals of such doubtful value. 
Cattle. 
With regard to Shorthorns, Mr. Leeds (the Steward of the 
Cattle Department) informs me that the Old Bulls (Class 28) 
were good, but that Class 29 was weak, and contained nothing 
striking. The Bull Calves (Class 31) were fair, but not equal 
to the same class at some recent meetings of the Society. 
The classes for Shorthorn females were of superior quality to 
those of the other sex, and upheld the character of the Show 
better than the same class did at Wolverhampton in 1871. 
The Two-year-old Heifers (Class 33) were a very fine class, 
while the Yearling Heifers (Class 34) formed the great feature of 
the exhibition of cattle, and equalled those exhibited at any Show 
of recent years. The Heifer Calves (Class 34) were a good 
average class, and the first-prize animal was of superior quality. 
The Judges collectively have not sent in a Report. Mr. 
Beauford merely remarks — 
It was about an average show of Shorthorns. 
Class 30 was a bad class, and the Heifer Classes, as usual, very good. 
