544 Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Newcastle. 
The Cow Class contained six animals, all being of considerable merit, the 
prize-takers fhowing immistakable signs of being good milkers, as well as 
possessing beef-making pioperties. 
The Two-year-old Heifers, as a whole, presented a very good appearance. 
The first-prize animal, however, had an easy victory. 
The Yearling Heifers were fairly good, the first prize being a very attractive 
animal. 
Charles Howard. 
KoBt Walker. 
Polled Aberdeen-Angus Cattle. 
The progress which this breed has made since the Royal 
Show at Newcastle in 1864 has been remarkable. It was then 
represented by about a dozen animals — (animals of rare merit 
they were, vide the report of Mr. J. Dent Dent, in vol. xxv., 
1st Series, of the ' Journal') — sent from the native districts of the 
breed. On this occasion no fewer than forty-four entries, out of 
a total of seventy-five, were sent in from Polled Aberdeen-Angus 
herds, which have been established in England. The breed has 
taken a firm hold in the North of England, where valuable breeds 
of it are maintained by Mr. Clement Stephenson, of Sandyford 
Villa, and Balliol College Farm, Long Benton, Newcastle-on- 
Tyne : Mr. Owen C. Wallis, of Bradley Hall, Wylam-on-Tyne ; 
Mr. Arthur Errington, of South Ella, Hull ; JNIajor H. F. 
Dent, of Ainderby Hall, Northallerton ; Mr. VV. G. Dickinson, 
of Elsternwick Hall, Hedon, Hull ; Major Godman, of Great 
Smeaton, Northallerton, and others. Mr. Clement Stephenson 
has cultivated the breed with great enthusiasm and success, and 
his Showyard victories with the phenomenal " Luxury," " Lady 
Victorine," and others, have done much to spread the fame of 
the northern Polled cattle throughout England. 
Not infrequently we have seen a finer display of the breed 
than there was at Newcastle. Taken as a whole, however, it 
was of a creditable character, and seemed to elicit a good deal 
of admiration from visitors. There were eight entries ^of Bulls 
calved in 1882, 1883, or 1884 ; but one or two of the stalls were 
empty. Lord Tweedmouth's very handsome young bull," Cash " 
(4558), was quite a clear winner. In age he competed at a 
disadvantage, for he was calved about the closing days of 1884; 
but his admirable form, excellent quality, great substance, wealth 
of flesh, and attractive character, at once carried him to the 
front. He won in the Yearling Class at the Highland and 
Agricultural Society's last year ; was Champion at the Aberdeen 
Show this year, and here, besides the first in his class, he was 
awarded the Special prize for the best Bull of the Breed. Bred 
by his noble owner, and got by "Mosstrooper" (2256), he 
is out of " Frailty " (4932), by the Ballindalloch prize-bull, 
