Report of t/ie Stetvards of Stock at the Batter sea Show. 373 
' anil sliapc, but though none of them approached our standard of perfection, 
yet it is probable that the whole class if brought to the test of tlie pail 
would have distanced an equal number of Shorthorns, Devons, or Herefords, 
taking the ])ick of the show-yard. In short they are first-rate dairy stock, 
and remarkable for their hardy constitutions, and I trust that they found 
sufficient favour with our dairy farmers to reward their enterprising owners 
for the trouble and expense they incurred in sending them over." 
" Panard de Courville," an active iron-gray of the pure Per- 
cheroune breed, was the sole representative of foreign live-stock 
among the horses : and the Augeron, Normand, and Perigourdin 
pig-breeds yielded their claims for representation to a large 
Craonnais boar, with the ears and snout of a truffle-hunter. The 
sheep classes, with the exception of two or three pens of Chinese, 
more famed for their prolific powers than their looks, were 
made up of pure and cross-bred Merinos. There were none of 
the Dishley-Merinos, whose early maturity, when crossed with 
the Leicester, made such a fine feature at Poissy in 1857. The 
French INIerinos are valuable for their size and mutton, as well 
as their wool, which weighs from 8 lbs. to 18 lbs. in the grease. 
Those exhibited were of good fair form, "up to the eyes and 
down to the toes in wool," which is inferior to that of the 
Spanish Merino, the ewes of which race were small and defi- 
cient in constitution. Those from Saxony were not equal in 
size to the French, though very famous for the quality of their 
wool — a consideration which had to yield to that of superior 
form when an umpire was called in to decide between the Eng- 
lish and Saxon judges. Mr. Sturgeon of Essex and Mr. Dorrien 
of Sussex exhibited several pens of Merinos bred in England, 
which could not therefore compete for prizes. The pens belong- 
ing to the former gentleman were highly commended, and those 
of the latter were commended. 
Although, owing to its proximity to the Border, the meeting 
at Carlisle had rather a Scottish character, that country never 
furnished a really component part of the English Society's Show 
until this year. It was suggested that such unions might be 
repeated, especially when the Royal English Society holds 
Meetings in the North ; but this proposition does not seem 
feasible, as the charter of the Highland Society, as well as the 
general feeling on the point, would hardly admit of one meeting 
being merged into another, except under the exceptional circum- 
stances of this year, when both agriculturists and herdsmen 
Avere anxious to have a trip to the International Exhibition. 
The arrangements of Mr. Hall Maxwell, the Secretary of the 
Highland Society, for the servants in charge of the Scottish 
stock, are especially worthy of record. These men, who num- 
bered 120, were all strangers to London, and it was necessary to 
keep them under proper control, and well in hand. With this 
