Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at JSorivich. 707 
We were pleased to see a good show of SiiffoILs. The Two-shear Bams, 
although small in number, were good. The Shearling Bam Class was well 
represented, but some showed a little too much of the Hampshire type. 
The Shearling Ewes were a grand lot, and gave the Judges much difficulty 
in giving their awards ; this applies also to the Eive Lambs. 
As the Suffolks were well represented, and there were many excellent 
sheep amongst them, the Judges trust that the Coimcil will continue to 
admit them as a class to the Eoyal Society's Shows. 
Classes No. 146, 147, 148, 149 and 150 had but few entries, but some of 
the latter were very good. 
JoHX Sherwood. 
J. "\V. Stanford. 
George Kixg. 
Beport of tlie Judges of Shearing and Trimming. 
We, the undersigned, as your Inspectors of Shearing and Trimming, beg to 
report the result of our examination on Saturday. We consider the trimming 
of lambs should only mean such as should be calculated to deceive the 
Judges in their examination and decision of such stock ; and we would 
venture to recommend that the mere cutting of the wool across by the end of 
the tail, should not mean disqualification, as we find that most breeds of 
stock in this district are so treated in the regular and ordinary way ; and we 
fiu-ther add tbat we are of opinion it would be much against the interests of 
the Eoyal Agricultural Society to put their present rule in force, as we did 
not find one pen of lambs in the Yard free from this — " The cutting of the 
wool across the tail, and a little less or more under, so as to keep them clean 
and in good order," and would much recommend, as your Inspectors, that they 
be thus allowed to come before the Judges for such prizes as are offered to 
them in the various classes. 
In our inspection of last year we found many of the best lambs trimmed all 
over to a large extent, and we did, on that account, recommend disquali- 
fication. 
We have further to lay before the Council the satisfactory state of shearing 
in the Yard, as we only found Nos. 1252, 1257, and 1258 in Class 121, and 
also 1275 in Class 124, that we could recommend for disqualification, and we 
do this, knowing that those have not been fairly shorn according to the rules 
of the Society, and to the instructions given to us as your Inspectors. 
William Jobsox, \ t ^ ^ oi ■ 
J. B. Workman. \ Insj,ectors of Shearing. 
PIGS. 
It was generally considered that the pigs shown in the 
Classes for Large, Middle, and Small Whites were as a whole 
superior to the exhibits in the same classes at the last three 
Royal Shows, but not equal in merit to the displays of the 
porcine tribes seen at some earlier exhibitions of the Society. 
It was also observed that although the Norwich Show might be 
pointed to as the one at which an improvement was noticeable 
in the pigs exhibited, yet not a single prize for White Pigs was 
retained in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. This is a 
matter of surprise to those who remember the splendid Small 
