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Itepod (III fhe Cattle ExhUiiied at Windsor. 
Society's Prize Lists. This will be considered under its proper 
heading in the course of the following report. 
Some of the breeds, which in their native countries have 
not yet taken much more than a local position, have gained 
importance through the recognition of their merits by the colonist 
and the foreigner. It is obviously within the scope of the 
Society's traditions, and in accordance with the Society's usage, 
to afford every possible encouragement to the owners of such 
breeds to develop their usefulness to the utmost, so as to foster 
international trade, to the benefit of the English producer. 
There is a double benefit to the breeder from the recognition of 
his stock as a breed deserving special Classes — in the first 
place, the spur or stimulant to progress which competition in 
those classes supplies, and secondly, the value of exhibition in 
such classes as an advertisement to the world, by reason of the 
presence of foreign and colonial visitors at the Annual Shows. 
A list of the places successively visited by the Society will 
be found serviceable to the reader for ready reference, as show- 
ing where and when the exhibitions have been held in the dis- 
tricts of the dififerent breeds. The names of the cities and 
towns are given therefore in the following list in the same order 
in which the Shows took place, and every tenth Show has the 
date added :— 
Oxford (1839), Cambridge, Liverpool, Bristol, Derby, South- 
ampton, Shrewsbury, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northampton, York, 
Norwich (1849), Exeter, Windsor, Lewes, Gloucester, Lincoln, 
Carlisle, Chelmsford, Salisbury, Chester, Warwick (1859), 
Canterbury, Leeds, Battersea (International), Worcester, New- 
castle-upon-Tyne, Plymouth (in the summer of this year, 1865, 
the outbreak of Russian cattle-plague or rinderpest occurred, 
so that no Show was held in 186G, and the Show of 1867 was 
held, without Cattle Classes, at Bury St. Edmunds), Leicester, 
Manchester (1869), Oxford, Wolverhampton, Cardiff; Hull, Bed- 
ford, Taunton. Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol, Kilburn (Inter- 
national, 1879), Carlisle, Derby, Reading, York, Shrewsbury, 
Preston, Norwich, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Windsor 
(1889). 
Shorthorn Cattle. 
The history of the Shorthorn may be illustrated by the rise 
and progress of a river. On some windy fell, or high bleak 
moorland, or in the recesses of a mountain range, we may notice 
a single water-spring, or possibly a few swampy neighbouring 
spots from which the water trickles into a common pool, whose 
overflow, first a shallow brooklet, gathering volume from 
