572 Report on the Exhibition of Live Stock at Liverpool. 
our inspection. Some of those classes might have almost heen disqualified. 
This class of stock were not so regularly and well shorn. As those sheep 
are only shown when the Eoyal Show is conveniently situated for such stock, 
and are not a regular yearly portion of the Show, we are of opinion that the 
Council acted wisely to allow them to stand for the prizes the following 
day. The rules and conditions of sheep-shearing are now so clearly ami 
well laid down to exhibitors, that there is no excuse for such deception 
being practised (as at one time was prevalent in the Showyard). And it 
will be well that the Council give expression in strong terms to all that these 
instructions, as to shearing of sheep, shall be strictly attended to. Our atten- 
tion was drawn to the use of shears in the Showyard in dressing sheep, 
which we strongly condemn, and a few sheep were disfigured by the extreme 
use of them. 
William Joeson. 
J. B. Workman. 
Pigs. 
In the pig classes there was this year an unusually large 
number of disqualifications from the state of dentition indicating 
over age. It is a pity that this should happen. Noblemen and 
gentlemen who own first-class pigs should endeavour to get 
their men to pay more attention to the age of the animals, and 
exercise more scrupulousness when making the entries. In 
some instances, also, the prizes were withheld for want of merit. 
There was not, however, much of this to complain of. Generally 
the pigs, the prize ones at any rate, were big, fat, and well 
fleshed. The Earl of Ellesmerc was the most successful ex- 
hibitor. His Lordship's pigs are so well-known to be of the 
best blood, and to be shown in the best form, that detailed 
observations are uncalled for. In many districts of the country 
there is still great room for improvement in the breed of pigs. 
Gradually, however, the better sorts are making way over the 
country. The Shows of the Royal and other Societies do much 
good in this direction. 
The large white breed of boars under twelve months old 
received no tickets. Aged ones were a fair class ; Lord Elles- 
mere's first one being of great size and good quality. Mr. 
Duckering's second one, " Cultivator," is a ponderous three-year- 
old boar. The Worsley Hall sows defied competition. His 
Lordship's first-prize boars of the small white breed are beautiful, 
plump, very heavily fleshed pigs, with good heads, and not too 
much " timber ; " the first-prize aged boar of this breed was an 
object of great attraction to porcine fanciers. The class of sows 
of this breed was one of the best in the department. Mr. 
Duckering's first-prize sow is a massive shapely animal, carrying 
a great deal of flesh and fat on moderately sized bone. 
Pigs of the small black breed were a middling display. 
Mr. G. M. Sexton's prize boars and pigs were of a good useful 
