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Tlie Plymouth Meeting. 
Devon Long-Wool. — The breeders of these sheep made the 
Plymouth Meeting a strong rallying-point, there being 40 pens 
entered as compared with 31 at Windsor last year. The entries 
comprised 31 from Devon and 9 from Somerset, there being in 
all nine flocks represented. Sir John Heathcote-Amory proved a 
formidable competitor, and secured the premier awards, besides 
others, in the three classes. Though not numerically strong, 
the old rams exhibited were of superior type and quality, pos- 
sessing great aptitude for fattening, and being well adapted 
to the soil and climate of Devon. The shearling rams were 
strong both in number and quality ; the Judges regarded them 
throughout as a useful lot with superior wool. The shearling 
ewes were a grand class, " the whole of the exhibits being of 
great size and good quality." 
South Devons. — This very local breed was, like the South 
Devon (Hams) cattle, not specifically classed at Windsor, 
although they there took all the prizes for the " any other 
breed " classes. The South Devon sheep occupy very much the 
same area as that already mentioned in connection with the 
South Devon cattle (p. 555). With the exception of one pen 
from a Cornwall flock, all the entries, 27 in number, came 
from the district indicated, there being in all half a dozen 
flocks represented. There were only four pens of two-shear 
rams, but the Judges placed them all, the exhibits being of 
great size with plenty of flesh and heavy fleeces of wool. 
Shearling rams were remarkably well represented, the entries, 
with few exceptions, showing superior quality and good con- 
stitution. Ewes were a smaller class, but maintained fully the 
size and quality of the other classes. 
Dartmoor. — The local support given to the Plymouth 
Meeting was here again well evinced, for whilst Windsor 
attracted but 12 entries representing three flocks, Plymouth 
drew 28 entries from as many as nine flocks, all of these having 
their homes within the county of Devon. The whole of the old 
ram class were of the pure type of the Dartmoor breed, and the 
first and second prize sheep earned heavy coats of lustrous wcol . 
combined with massive frames. The competition in the shear- 
ling ram class was very severe, the merits of the prize-winneis 
very nearly balancing each other. Despite the fact that the wool 
was, in some cases, not as heavy as might have been wished, the 
class contained altogether the grandest lot of Dartmoor sheep tie 
Judges had ever seen exhibited. The ewe class brought' out 
some good pens, and although the first prize pen were truest to 
their breed, the second pen, while lacking a little in lustre of 
wool, were remarkably well covered throughout, and the third 
