560 Report on tJie Exhihition of Live-Sloch at Newcastle, 
could be desired, and yet possessing all the visible attributes 
of deep milkers. The first prize went to Mr. J. Goodrick, 
Harrogate, for a typical cow of the sort described, bred in 
Yorkshire, and evidently deep in Shorthorn blood. The same 
exhibitor got the third prize, for a blue cross-bred, more like a 
cross between the Shorthorn and Galloway breeds. Mr. James 
Lowther's second is a deep well-shaped Shorthorn cross, with 
the appearance of fair milking properties. Several excellent cows 
were highly commended, including a Kerry shown by Mr. 
James Robertson of La Mancha, and a Swiss cow exhibited by 
the Aylesbury Dairy Company. 
The Class of three-year-old Dairy Cows was very small, 
containing only four entries. The first prize here went to Mr. 
J. J. Sharp of Broughton, for a well-shaped, good looking red 
Shorthorn cow of his own breeding, got by " Oxford Rose 3rd " 
(50135), and out of "Julia 13th," by "Cambridge Duke 6th" 
(33272). Mr. Burnside's second is a straight, useful-looking 
cross-bred roan, of unknown breeding. 
Beport of the Judges of Dairy Cattle. 
Class 120 — Dairy Cows, in-Milk, of any Breed or Cross. — This Class 
was much better filled than has been the case in late years, there being 18 
entries, of which 14 came before the Judges. Several breeds were represented, 
including Shorthorns, Kerries, two Swiss Cows, and various crosses. With 
two or three exceptions the class was an excellent one. 
The Judges were instructed to base their awards upon the relative apparent 
milking properties of the animals exhibited, there being no provision made 
for testing, accurately, either the quantity or quality of the milk produced. 
This the Judges much regretted. They would have been better satisfied, 
and so, most likely, would some of the Exhibitors have been, if the milk had 
been weighed, and the quality carefully ascertained by Dr. Voelcker, the 
Society's Consulting Chemist, the same as was done at Preston in 1885, 
and at Norwich last year. Possibly the Council, before the next Show is 
held beneath the grand old lime-trees in Wollaton Park, may give to these 
points the attention they deserve, as quantity of milk produced cannot be 
reckoned a complete proof of a cow's value for general dairy purposes. 
The first-prize cow (No. 1116) came well up to the Judges' ideas of what 
a first-class dairy cow should be ; she gave every indication of beiuj; a 
splendid milker, besides having great substance. She was closely followed 
in the competition by No. 1110, the third prize falling to a blue-grey cross 
which stood over an enormous udder, but she was somewhat sticky in her 
coat, and did not show the bloom of her more successful rivals, either of 
whom might well be taken as a model of a general-purpose dairy-cow. 
No. 1111 secured the reserve and highly-commended ticket. She was two 
months calved, and was described by her attendant as being exceedingly good 
at the pail. Nos. 1113 and 1114 proved to be exhibited by the " Aylesi)ury 
Dairy Company," and were described as "Swiss, Silver Grey." Their 
appearance, so far north, was somewhat novel and jjcculiar; nevertheless 
they were evidentlj' good dairy beasts. The better of the pair was highly 
commended, as was also the pretty little " Kerry," exhibited by Mr. James 
llobertson, of Malahide, near Dublin, 
