G2G Report on the Cattle Exhibited at Windsor, 
conditions, not always obvious. For instance, at the first Show, 
held in 18-39 at Oxford (where, by-the-by, Mr. Paull's " Oxford," 
bred by Mr. W. Davy, of Flitton, was the First Prize bull), 
the aggregate number of entries was only fifteen; yet at 
Cambridge in the following year it rose to twenty-five. At 
Liverpool the distance northward sufficiently accounted for the 
decline to nine, and the nearness to the Quantock range and 
district southward when the Meeting was held at Bristol in 1842, 
brought up the number to forty-six. At that Show the First 
Prize bull, " Hundred Guinea," bred by Mr. John Quartly, and 
the First Prize cow, " Prettymaid" (No. 3CG Devon Herd-book), 
bred by Mr. Francis Quartly, were a brother and sister, bred 
from Mr. Francis Quartly's celebrated cow "Curly" (No. 92 
Devon Herd-book), a descendant of his most impressive bull 
"Forester" (No. 4G Devon Herd-book), who flourished about sixty 
years ago, and, without fear of contradiction, may be described 
as the richest source of prize-winning blood found in the records 
from that day to this. The entries after the Bristol Show, until 
the tenth year of the Society's existence, varied from eleven 
to forty-eight, the latter being the number at Norwich in 1849. 
The next year was a great one for the Devons, Exeter having 
been chosen as the meeting-place, and they gathered there to 
the strength of 123 entries, previously unexampled at a 
Royal Show. 
At Windsor, 1851, when Mr. John Quartly's "Earl of 
Exeter," a grandson of the Bristol First Prize cow, was the First 
Prize bull, the entries numbered nine bulls exceeding three years 
old, twelve from one year to three years old (total, twenty-one 
bulls), fifteen cows, seventeen heifers not exceeding three years old, 
and twenty yearling heifers (fifty-two cows and heifers), making 
a grand total of seventy-three Devons, eleven short of the number 
at Windsor this year. The winning exhibitors in 1851, besides 
Mr. Quartly, who also had a Second Prize for a yearling heifer, 
were the Earl of Leicester and Messrs. Turner, Davy, Miller, Bond, 
and Hogg. Mr. George Turner, who exhibited the First Prize 
cow and was the breeder and exhibitor of the First and Second 
Prize two-year-old heifers and Third Prize yearling heifer, lived to 
the age of more than ninety years, and is remembered not only 
as a leading man in agricultural affairs, one of the Society's 
original members and a member of the Council, and as a prominent 
breeder and exhibitor of Devons, but also as a man of singularly 
happy and genial manner, young in heart when very far beyond 
the limit of ordinary human life. He died only about five years 
ago. Mr. James Davy in after years (nearly thirty years ago) 
succeeded to that foremost position among Devon breeders which 
