708 Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Norwich. 
While pigs sent in years gone by to the various Showyards by 
Messrs. Hobbs, Stearn, and Sexton. Is the cause for this to be 
lound in the changed taste of the public, which appears now to 
prefer pork with a greater proportion of lean meat ? Or to 
what causes are we to look for this somewhat remarkable fact ? 
It may be said by some persons that Norfolk is not a county 
in which many stock are bred ; this can be only partially 
correct, as several Champion animals were bred in the county, 
and why should not some of the prize pigs have been pro- 
duced at home ? I confess that I am unable to find a sufficient 
reply. 
The classification of pigs has recently been altered, and in 
my humble opinion considerably improved. I should like to 
see still another alteration ; this is the addition of classes for 
sows in-milk or suckling their produce. Many of the prize 
sows may have produced litters of live pigs in the time required 
by the rules of the Society, but it is very doubtful if many of 
them have satisfactorily performed the later duties of a mother. 
A sow which has recently reared a good litter of pigs is heavily 
handicapped in competition with a young sow of seventeen 
months, which has not produced a litter of pigs, or one which 
has not suckled her piglings. 
Large White Breeds. 
The most successful exhibitor in the Classes for Large White 
Pigs was Mr. William Hall, who easily won first prizes in the 
Classes for Boars farrowed in the year 1885, and also for pens 
of three boars farrowed in 1886. These were pigs of great 
substance and quality ; in fact, just the kind for farmyards and 
the dairy factories in districts where large pork is in demand. 
The same exhibitor also showed three very nice yelts, which 
failed to attract the favourable notice of the Judges. Repre- 
sentatives of the Worsley Hall Stud again appeared in the 
Royal Showyard after an absence of two years. A second prize 
was won by them in the Class for Three Boar Pigs, as well as 
second and third prize for Three Breeding Sow-Pigs, the latter 
having been beaten by three fully-developed sows shown by 
Mr. T. Collinson, Jun. The best Class in this section was 
that for Breeding Sows. 
It seemed a very close thing between a splendid sow, with 
Avonderful loin and hind quarters, shown by Mr. James Howard, 
and a very long and massive sow of Mr. Philip Ascroft's ; the 
Judges eventually placed Mr. Howard's sow first, and placed 
second a much inferior sow, the property of Mr. C. E. 
Duckering. 
