550 Report on the Exhibition of Live Stock at Liverpool. 
Shorthorn bull, the Aylesby yearling and "Snowstorm" offered 
" Sir Arthur Ingram " good competition. The white yearling 
bull was a favourite with many. Still there was no grumbling 
about the cup going to " Sir Arthur," who was in capital form. 
Cows were much more difficult to judge than they have been 
for at least four or five years back. That did not arise from 
any extraordinary merit so much, possibly, as from the want of 
it. The class, as a whole, was better than it has been for the 
last five years, yet there was no such cow as " Queen Mary," or 
" Vivandiere " — -no decided first ; hence the perplexity of the class 
to the Judges, who spent the most of two hours on it. It is not 
too much to say that each one of the lour prize-winners had its 
backers for the red ticket, nor could a great mistake have been 
made, even if the Judges had determined the order by ballot of 
Mr. St. John Ackers's " Queen of the Georgians," Mr. Hutchin- 
son's " Lady Alicia," the Marquis of Exeter's " Telemacina," 
and Lady Pigot's " Zvesda." At length the Judges placed the 
animals in the order just named. They are all well known to 
English Show-goers. Each has its very grand and its indifferent 
points. The wide chest, great bosom, extraordinary spring of 
rib and fine quality of flesh displayed by Lady Pigot's young 
cow, daughter of Mr. Booth's " King James," would have gone 
a long way to carry any animal to the front, as it did with her 
when she was the first Royal, Bath and West, and Northum- 
berland yearling of 1875. A severe attack of foot-and-mouth 
disease, more, than a year ago, spoiled her considerably. Between 
the hooks and the tail she is not now nice, and she is a trifle sharp 
on the top of the shoulder. These defects on each side of such 
a marvellously arched middle mar her symmetry. She meets 
one well, but, walking away, her drooping quarters bring too 
much of her back into view. I fancied the blooming three- 
year-old Telemacina, mostly of Bates' blood. She has the most 
level top of the lot, is most level in flesh, and is altogether the 
best cow to go on with. Her fore-ribs do not come so well 
down as could be wished, and she is rather bare below, especially 
forward. Had her under-line been nearly as good as her top, 
nothing would have touched this promising daughter of old 
" Telemachus." Mr. Hutchinson's " Lady Alicia," of his own 
breeding, was the second heifer at Taunton, and the second cow 
at Birmingham. For thickness round the girth and general 
substance she had no rival in her class. Still there is a slight 
coarseness as the tail-head is approached. She also was sired 
by " King James," as her breadth of chest and wealth of flesh 
indicate. " Queen of the Georgians " has been a frequenter of 
English Shows for some years, and has generally been " in" 
somewhere. Never was she in such luck as at Liverpool. Her 
