508 Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Newcastle. 
noted but now neglected and declining Longhorn) that was not 
represented on the Newcastle Moor. This in itself imparts a 
special interest and unusual importance to the Meeting of 1887. 
The representative or comprehensive feature of the Show was 
its most strongly-marked characteristic. In the great collection 
of live-stock there were no prominently outstanding features, 
no abnormally extended classes such as those of Red Polled 
Cattle at Norwich last year, and of Shropshire Sheep at 
Shrewsbury in 1884. The locality of the Show accounted both 
for this absence of excessively large classes, and for the excep- 
tionally representative character of the display. In the districts 
embraced in the " Circuit " visited this year, extensive and 
important from an agricultural point of view as they are, there 
are no distinctively " local breeds " of live-stock. True, the 
ancestral home of the Shorthorn lies within the North-Eastern 
Circuit ; but this, the greatest of all our valuable breeds of 
cattle, has become so thoroughly cosmopolitan as to be as much 
at home in one part of the kingdom as another. There were 
thus no classes that could be said to be distinctl}^ local. Then 
the proximity of the Show to Scotland brought out a creditable 
representation of the best which that country can exhibit in 
horses, cattle, and sheep. The Society prepared a liberal and 
well-designed Prize List, and the attractions of this were con- 
siderably enhanced through the enterprise of the supporters of 
some of the leading Scotch breeds, who contributed handsomely 
to the prize-money. 
In design and detail the Showyard was similar to former years, 
with here and there such improvements as experience has 
suggested. This is not the place to dwell upon the admirable 
manner in which the Royal Show is conducted ; but the writer 
may be permitted to say in a word that, upon the whole, the 
arrangements were all that could have been desired, and that 
the Honorary Director of the Showyard, with his efficient and 
obliging corps, carried out the proceedings with all the regularity 
and smoothness characteristic of the " Royal." The responsi- 
bility was great, but it sat lightly upon accustomed shouPders. 
A word is due to the Railway officials for their excellent 
arrangements ; and also to the daily press of Newcastle, which 
rendered unparalleled services to the Society in connection 
with the Show. 
HORSES. 
The display of horses derived special interest from the pre- 
sence of the five excellent Thoroughbred Stallions, " Gumbo," 
" Knight Templar," " Moss Hawk," " Prescription," and 
" Storm Signal," which won the Society's five 2001. premiums 
at the Show at Newcastle in January last. These valuable 
