618 Ueport on ihe Cattle Exhibited at Windsor. 
Medal, and is himself a fine illustration of tke Hereford type, 
great in width through immediately behind the shoulder. His 
colour is somewhat of the old hue, liked very generally before 
the dark-red to meet the American fancy came into fashion 
• — a rather paler colour, and covered with markings in a different 
shade, like drawings of miniature starfish. Mr. W. H. Cooke's 
" Grove Wilton 3rd," the Keserve Number — sire " Lord Wilton," 
dam's sire " The Grove ord," an excellent combination — has 
great scale and is of extraordinary depth from the shoulder to the 
point of the breast. 
Class 84, Bulls of 1887, had ten entries, nine present. The 
Queen's " Favourite " (First Prize), a well-shaped bull of great 
length, on short legs, with clear yellow horns, was bred by Mr. 
John Price from the union of his " Monarch " and " Grand 
Duke" strains. The Earl of Coventry's " White Boy " (Second 
Prize) — why " white " ? his colour is red, dappled like " Rare 
Sovereign's " ; Mr. Fenn's " Downton Wilton " (Third Prize) ; 
J\lr. A. P. Turner's " Salisbury " (Reserve), and Mr. Ralph 
Palmer's " Bombardier," dark red, and coloured up to the eyes, 
are the other judicially honoured bulls in a creditable Class. 
In Class 85 the thirty-five entries all came forward, so that 
the ring at judging-time looked well occupied, and the same may 
be said of the Judges. Whether the work was really as heavy 
as it seemed, or whether defects in some good-looking animals, 
unperceived at greater distance, enabled the Judges, with their 
opportunities of handling and closely comparing the rivals, to 
thin out freely, in either case the work was accomplished 
apparently without much difficulty, and Mr. Rankin's " Figaro," 
Mr. Hughes's '"Endale" (bred by Mr. Yeld), and the Earl of 
Coventry's " Golden Sovereign," a son of '• Rare Sovereign " 
and grandson of " Golden Treasure," a famous Royal Prize cow 
of previous years, were placed respectively First, Second, and 
Third, Her Majesty's " Luminary " having the Reserve Number. 
There was a good deal of character in some of the young bulls 
in this Class, and much scope for descriptive detail, but charac- 
teristics of yearling-bulls often alter so rapidly that it is scarcely 
safe to describe them except for immediate reading. 
Class 86, Cows or Heifers calved previously to or in the year 
188G, contained twenty entries, one of which had been withdrawn, 
and three cows were absent from their stalls. The Class as it 
stood in the ring comprised eleven cows calved before 1886, and 
five animals calved in 1886, three of the five over three years of 
age and in milk, two under three years of age and in calf. 
Without going into the question, " What is a heifer ? " or " At 
what age or under what conditions does a heifer become a cow ? " 
