540 Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Newcastle, 
Sir W. Williams, Bart., got the third prize for " Flame," a 
short, plump, well-ribbed four-year-old, of good character but 
rather uneven in flesh. 
The Class of Two-year-old Heifers was of similar size, and 
also of exceptional merit. The Judges highly commended the 
whole of this class. The winners were very close in point of 
merit. Sir W. Williams takes the lead with " Frantic," a very 
thick, plump, short-legged heifer, of true Devon character, but 
rather high in condition ; bred by himself, and got by " Duke 
of Flitton 17th." Her Majesty the Queen had an excellent 
second in " Fanciful," a big well-made heifer, on a wider scale 
than the first, but not quite so neat. She was bred by Her 
Majesty and sired by " Lord Currvpool." 
The Yearling Heifer Class also had five entries, and again the 
Judges felt constrained to mark " the whole highly commended." 
Mr. Walter won the first prize here with " Buttercup 5th," a 
very pretty little plump heifer of his own breeding, and got by 
"Lord Stowey" (1(501). Mr. A. C. Skinner's second, "Myrtle 
23rd," by " Lord Currypool," is also pretty, very good in front, 
but just a trifle light in the rib, where, however, she may gain 
strength. 
Report of Judges of Devon Cattle, 
In the Devon Cattle, Class 73 produced six animals of exceptional merit ; 
and whilst we may have seen better animals than either, as a class we have 
never seen them sm-passed. The merit in some cases was very equal, whilst 
we felt called upon to highly commend the whole class. 
Class 74. — This was a useful class of youngsters, the first-prize animal 
having an easy win, whilst the other prize-winners had a close run. 
Class 75. — Here we had perhaps the best animal that came under our 
notice, in Xo. 68-1, which took a good lead, and is a grand cow of good Devon 
type, with her flesh very evenly laid on ; whilst she is followed by two good 
cows, Nos. 682 and 687, the former a cow of great depth and substance ; 
whilst the latter, of good type, does not carry her flesh so evenly. 
Class 76. — In this class some difiiculty was experienced in consequence of 
the great merit in the animals exhibited, and here again the whole class is 
highly commended. ' 
Class 77. — This was a very nice class, being again without exception 
highly commended. And here we would remark that the Devons as a whole 
present one of the grandest displays ever made by this breed at the " Eoyal." 
Their being so far from home the numbers are naturally not large; the 
merit, on the other hand, is of a very exceptional order, not one plain animal 
having come under our notice. 
In recommending the third prize to be given in some cases where the class 
■was not sufficiently large to otherwise carry it, we were actuated by the high 
merit exhibited, and in some cases the very close contest between the second 
and third animals. 
Saml. Kidker. 
Kicnn. Hamshab. 
Geokge Kappeu. 
