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L'cport on the Gaille Exhibited at Wlndior. 
Ci.-Vss 7G. Tluee-year-old Bulls — Also not numerous, but coutaiuetl 
several bulls of merit. 
Class 77 — Two-year-old Bulls — was a large aud g-ood one, which 
produced the Chauiiiion Bull. The animals placed were especially note- 
M'orthy. 
Class 78 — Yearliiuj Bulls — was the largest among Shorthorns, but 
many of them would have been better at home. This remark does not, 
however, apply to the animals noticed, wliich were good. 
Class 7"J. Cows, in Milk or in Calf, calved jJrevioiisli/ to or in the year 
1885. — A small but good Class. 
Class 80 — Three-year-old Cotvs or Heifers, in Milk or in Calf — contained 
undoubtedly the best animal in the yard, and the Judges had no hesitation 
in awarding the Qubex's Gold Medal for the best Shorthorn to No. 1098 
(Mr. Robeit Thompson's Belle Madeline).^ The other winners in this Class 
were also good. 
Class 81. Ttco-year-old Heifers. — Numerous and fairly good, the 
First Pkize, No. 1117 (Mr. Thomas Stokes's Gladys Hose), being also 
Reserve for the Gold Medal. 
Class 82. Yearling Heifers. — Again a well-filled Class ; many, however, 
should not have been exhibited. The winrers, nevertheless, were good, and 
not overfed. 
A. Mitchell. 
George Dkewet. 
L. C. CflRisP. 
Hereford Cattle. 
Interesting historical particulars of the Hereford breed are 
given in the late Mr. H. H. Dixon's prize essay, in \o\. IV., 
Second Series, and some further notes, principally upon the 
characteristic properties of Herefords, appear in the contributions 
of Messrs. J. A. Clarke, J . C. Morton, and W. T. Carrington, in 
the fourteenth volume of the same series of the Journal of the 
lioyal Agricultural Society of England. References to the breed 
are also to be found in the First Series of the Journal. About 
three years ago iMessrs. Macdonald and Sinclair published a 
standai'd work on the History of Hereford Cattle, and the English 
Hereford Herd-booh^ and American Hereford RecorcP supply 
' For greater clearness the names of the animals mentioned, with their 
owners, have been added to the descriptions given by the Judges. — Et>. 
The English work, commenced by Mr. T. C. Eyton, of Wellington, 
Shropshire, who brought out the tir.st volume in 1840, passed, after the issue 
of the .second volume, into the hands of Mr. W. S. Powell, of Hereford, on 
whose death before completion of the third volume it was, at the instance of 
the Herefordshire Agricultural Society, taken up by Mr. Duckham, who pub- 
lished in 18-')8, under the patronage of the Prince Consort, a complete edition 
of the third volume. He also revised and republished vols. i. and ii., and 
continued the work until 1878, when the present " Hereford Herd-book 
Society " acquired possession and appointed an editing committee. The 
volumes, beginning with the tenth, have been since issued annually by that 
Society.— W.H. 
= Vol. i. published in 1880 by the "Breeders' Live-Stock Association, " 
Beecber, 111., U.S.A. 
