562 Report on the Exhibition of Live Stock at Birmingluim. 
Class 9. — This was not a well-filled class. The prize-horses were of fair 
average merit, but, as a rule, rather deficient in quaUty. 
Class 10. — There was no particular merit except in No. 1 prize, who won 
easih'. 
Class 23. — The prize animals in this class were very meritorious. 
Class 24. — This class was not well filled, but great merit was shown in the 
animals exhibited. 
Class 34. — The horses exhibited in this class were of a very mixed 
character. 
Class 35. — A small entry in this class, but the prize-winners very good 
indeed. 
Class 36. — This class was very well represented as a weight-carrying class. 
The first prize is a tower of strength, of striking character, and with good riding 
action. The same may be said of the second-prize cob. 
Class 37. — This class does not require any special mention. 
Class 38. — A very good class indeed. The prize-winners were, without 
exception, of excellent merit. 
Class 39. — No special report is required. 
Class 40. — The first-prize -ivinner in this class is a wonderful performer, of 
great merit, and well known in the Showyards. 
Class 41. — No report. 
Class 42. — The first-prize winner in this class is a wonderful animal, with 
very fine action, great speed, and full of quality and good looks. The second- 
prize animal also showed very good action with speed. 
Class 43. — The first-prize animal was an extraordinary one, with very fine 
action and quality, and only 11 hands 2 inches. 
H. Beevor. 
Hon. G. E. Lascelles. 
W. Pakkek, 
Cattle. 
With an extensive array of Shorthorn cattle, joined to less 
numerous but very superior collections of Herefords and Devons, 
there was such a display of the old Longhorned breed as has 
never before been witnessed. This formed quite a special feature, 
and the Birmingham Show will hereafter be regarded as com- 
mencing a new epoch for the breed. The Jersey cattle were 
also far more numerous, lovelier in appearance, and more meri- 
torious than they have ever been at a Royal Show on any pre- 
vious occasion ; while the cherry-red cattle of Sussex furnished 
sufficiently admirable specimens to prove their good qualities lor 
beef-making, and the wonderful refinement in bone and sym- 
metry they have undergone in recent years. A capital represen- 
tation of the bovine breeds was, therefore, exhibited. » 
" Class 44 we consider very good," is the laconic report of 
the Judges on the Shorthorn old bulls, which were brought under 
their inspection to the number of fourteen, no less than eight of 
whom they retained for a very close and lengthy scrutiny before 
making their award. Such a collection of grand forms, with 
shapely limbs and majestic carriage, formed a rich repast for the 
