68(5 Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Norwich. 
any Show since the International Meeting held at Kilburn. 
This great improvement is partially caused by the splendid 
and very extensive displays of Red Polls and of Jerseys ; at the 
same time some other breeds of cattle are better and more 
numerously represented than at recent Royal Shows, but to this 
I shall allude in my notes on the different varieties of cattle as 
they follow in order in the prize-list. 
Shorthorns. 
It will be observed that the Judges express slight disappoint- 
ment at the exhibition of Shorthorns as a whole. This opinion 
appeared to be generally endorsed by those who were taking a 
keen interest in the proceedings which took place in the judging 
ring. It could not be said that there were not in most of the 
classes several individual specimens quite equal to those which 
have been exhibited in former years ; the complaint appears 
rather to be, that there are a greater number shown which have 
not those deep ribs, lengthy quarters, and oblique shoulders, 
all set on short legs and encased in a mellow hide, well padded 
with muscle or lean flesh. It behoves the breeders of Short- 
horns to remember that the public form an opinion as to the 
good points of the different varieties of stock from those animals 
which are exhibited at the Royal, not from those specimens, 
however good they may be, which are kept at home. There is no 
gainsaying the assertion that the Shorthorn has borne and will 
bear the palm as the general utility animal in the bovine world ; 
but it must not be forgotten that it has now several competitors 
for the post of honour, and that those competing breeds are in 
the hands of stockowners who will leave no stone unturned to 
place their stock in the most favourable light before the pur- 
chasing public. It appears to be both desirable and necessary 
that the breeders of Shorthorns should make an effort in the 
same direction. ■> 
In the Class for Old Bulls, Mr. Handley's " Hiawatha " and 
Messrs. Coupland's "Self Esteem 2nd" were not allowed, as 
usual, to divide the honours ; a new aspirant appeared from the 
Emerald Isle. This was a very handsome and level roan of good 
style and character, and now owned by Mr. H. Williams, of 
Moor Park, Harrogate. " Hiawatha " was placed second, 
and " Self Esteem 2nd " reserved. Mr, Handley was more 
fortunate in the next class, as his extraordinary good . bull 
" Royal Ingram " took first and, for the second year in succession, 
the Champion prize of 25/., offered by the Shorthorn Society. 
The Two-year-old Bulls were much more evenly matched : 
some persons looked with the most favour on the decp-ribbed 
