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the five Lonk winners (two of which belonged to Mr. Eastwood 
and three to Mr. Jonathan Peel) are of a breed which has inha- 
bited the Yorkshire and the Lancashire hills time out of mind. 
Mr. Peel brought out "Mountain King," who has won nearly 
fifty prizes in six years, for the last time, and with " Mountain 
King's Son " as his second finished his unchequered career. 
His fleece was found afterwards to weigh 17 lbs. It is a York- 
shire boast that where " Lonks thrive, Cheviots would die ;" 
and some of the breed are about to be crossed with the native 
hill-breeds in the Pyrenees, and with the black-faces of Scot- 
land. 
Pigs. 
The JPiff Classes were as usual very large, comprising no less 
than 70 boars, 98 sows, and 26 pens of sow-pigs above 4 and 
under 8 months. The Berkshires had for the first time two dis- 
tinct classes, which filled well. The head prizes in both of 
them were won by the entries of the late Sir Robert Throck- 
morton, who had been alike fortunate at the Warwick Show in 
the mixed class for sows of a large breed. Lord Wenlock held 
the same place that he did last year, as first and second with 
sows of a small white breed ; and, as then, a pen from the 
Prince Consort's Shawe Farm, at Windsor, was highly com- 
mended. Mr. George Sexton well sustained the fame of his 
"Improved Suffolks " by three firsts and a second in the small 
black -breed classes ; and five firsts and two seconds were the re- 
ward of Mr. Wainman, Avith the large, middle, and small white 
lireeds. This gentleman's old " Golden Dream " appeared un- 
successfully in Class VI., though still pretty blooming after 
rearing 153 pigs at 13 farrows; and it may be mentioned that 
"Silver Wing," which won in the class of sows of the small 
white breed, is the daughter of " Silver Hair," the first prize 
winner in the same class at Leeds last year. Mr. Wainman's 
" Missing Link " exactly carried out the spirit of her name by 
taking off the first prize for sows of the middle breed, and 
blended the size of the large with the shape of the small. As a 
thrifty, weight-making pig this breed cannot be excelled, and 
among the Yorkshire cottagers it is especially popular. 
One of the Judges has given us his opinion on the classes 
as follows : — 
" Class I. Boars of a large breed. — In this class there were some good boars of 
the sort, but possessing no extraordinary merit, with the exception of their 
size. • 
"Class II. Boars of tha small ivJtite hreed. — In this class we found some 
extraordinarily good boars, surpassing, as I think, anything shown at Leeds or 
elsewhere. We had great diiSculty in awarding the prizes, and my brother 
Judges and myself came to the conclusion that this was an unusually good class ; 
