616 Report on iJie Cattle ExJdhited at Windsor, 
aud uine of yearling heifers, making a total of forty-one. Such 
was the Windsor Show of 1851. We shall perhaps better see 
the progress which the Herefords have made since the Society 
last visited Windsor if, instead of following the Shows from 
that year, and tracing the fluctuations in the representation of 
the breed, we take immediately for the purpose of contrast the 
Windsor Show of this year, only premising that excepting the 
cattle-plague year, 1867, when all cattle were excluded, every 
year's Show had separate classes for Herefords, which, with 
Shorthorns and Devons, have accordingly ranked from first to 
last as cattle of one of the leading national breeds. On some 
occasions interesting classes for groups or families have been 
added to the usual classes for single competition. 
We have read of magnificent Shows of Herefords in America, 
and seen some splendid Shows in this country, but the Show 
that could beat, in number and quality combined, the Jubilee 
exhibition this year at Windsor must be a good one indeed. 
The entries numbered nine bulls of 1883-4-5-6, ten bulls of 
1887, thirty-five bulls of 1888, twenty cows, fourteen two-year- 
old heifers, and thirty-three yearling heifers — total 121, or 
nearly three animals for each one shown in 1851. This total 
is twenty-three less than that of the entries at Shrewsbury in 
1884', and of the 144 entries at Shrewsbury uine represented 
pairs of bulls, thirteen pairs of heifers, three groups of cow and 
two offspring, five groups of four two-year-old heifers, and 
twelve gi'oups of yearling heifers — absentees not being noted in 
tliis enumeration. In single entries the Windsor Show is nineteen 
in excess of that at Shrewsbury, which numbered forty-three bulls 
and fifty-nine cows and heifers, against fifty -four bulls and sixty- 
nine cows and heifers at Windsor ; yet at Shrewsbury, in addition 
to the groups and jjairs, there were two more Classes than at 
Windsor, the elder bull and cow Classes, which at Windsor in- 
cluded three-year-old animals, being divided at Shrewsbury into 
separate Classes for the three-year-old and the older animals, 
^lany more prizes, therefore, were offered to competition at 
Slirewsburj", and the show-ground was close to the doors of the 
Hereford breeders. The Shrewsbury Meeting, however, came so 
soon after the English Hereford herds had been thinned by large 
exportations to America, that the general wonder was how the 
breed could at that time muster so many animals of the excel- 
lent quality displayed on that occasion. The Classes at Windsor 
were of still higher average quality. The blanks left in the 
herds had been filled by subsequent increase, and the distance 
from home kept back most of the animals of inferior merit ; 
lience the results — large classes and great c?:cellence throughout. 
