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The second prize went to a well-known English-bred cow, Nora 
2>rd ; she has a perfect head and neck, but stands a little high 
on her hind legs. Fairy 2nd, a cow of true Guernsey type, ran 
close for second place, but age told against her. Many other 
cows in this class were of special merit. 
Heifers went into the ring to the number of 27. They 
made a splendid class, many of them well deserving more than 
the honorary notice they received. The first and second prizes 
went to heifers that had calved, third and reserve to heifers 
that had not. Pretty Dairymaid 4-th was placed first. An 
island heifer, and daughter of the first prize cow, " she is of 
excellent quality, very straight, tail well set on, good skin, with 
excellent vessel and milk veins." A superb heifer, Damsel 2nd, 
took the second prize. The third prize went to Nor ah 6th, 
" perhaps the best animal in the whole class, but, being only 
eleven months old, she had no chance against the winner, 
which was two years old." She is a lovely heifer of rare 
quality. The whole of the yearling heifers are reported by the 
Judges as far above the average in quality. 
Kerry and Dexter Kerry. — The several classes of Kerry and 
Dexter Kerry cattle were well filled by some excellent specimens 
from various parts of Ireland and England. In the Kerry 
classes, 30 entries were by Irish exhibitors and 14 by English ; 
in the Dexter classes, 28 entries were by Irish exhibitors and 
23 by English. The 37 English entries won two-thirds of the 
prizes. Cows in both sections were particularly well repre- 
sented. Owing to the desire of the Judges to attach special 
value to milking qualities, they were mainly guided by these 
characteristics in making their awards. 
In the Kerry bull class, the handsome bull Aicme Shuel 
was first. Of two dozen Kerry cows the Judges noticed more 
than half, and placed at the top the beautiful cow Peep. 
In the Dexter bull class Fascination, the shapely little 
bull which attracted so much attention at last year's Dairy Show, 
was first. All the prizes in the Dexter classes went to English 
exhibitors. 
The Plymouth Show was taken advantage of by Kerry breeders 
in order to make the merits of the Irish blackskins better known 
in the West. Many of the local visitors must have looked upon 
these pretty little cattle for the first time. With the exception 
of one Somerset breeder, the English exhibitors hailed from the 
distant counties of Wilts, Hants, Surrey, Middlesex, Suffolk, 
Northampton, and Oxford. 
The subjoined observations of the Judges are of interest : — 
