632 Report on the Cattle Exhibited at Windsor, 
of late years at Smithfield," and the Stewards added, "Experi- 
ence lias proved them to be as hardy if not hardier on poor cold 
clays than any other breed." 
From this time the Sussex Classes were continued yearly to 
1868, missing only, in common with all cattle Classes, the two 
cattle-plague years, 1806-67. In 1864 they were included in 
the prize schedule of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — their first appear- 
ance at a Royal Show so far north. But the entries were few in 
number, and one of the Judges, Mr. H. W. Keary, remarked 
in his report that " The distance from home may account for 
the small number shown, but does not explain their great 
inferiority, as one would have thought that the best would be 
sent and the bad ones kept at home." The writer of the 
official report on the live-stock, Mr. J. Dent Dent, M.P., added, 
" Mr. Keary's remarks on the Sussex cattle confirm me in my 
opinion that it is unwise so far from home to offer prizes for 
any breed of cattle which have no particular merit to recommend 
them for adoption in other than their own locality. If the 
other breeds were over-fed, Sussex, at all events, were exhibited 
in a thoroughly natural state." This extract is given partly to 
indicate, in historical fairness, as accurately as possible, the 
character of the Sussex cattle shown at Newcastle a quarter of 
a century ago, and partly to introduce the obvious belief of a 
well-known authority that at that time tlie breed had no just 
pretensions to more than local importance. This view probably 
prevailed in the Council of the Society, for when the Society 
next travelled northward of the Midlands — to Manchester in 
1869 — the Sussex Classes were omitted. They w^ere also omitted 
in 1870, when the Show was held at Oxford, but on that occa- 
sion a Sussex heifer had the Reserve Number in the general 
competition outside the Classes of specified breeds. Neither at 
Wolverhampton in 1871, Cardiff" in 1872, nor Hull 1873, were 
they received back into the favoured group ; but at Bedford in 
1874 their Classes were restored to the schedule, but inserted 
after those of Channel Islands cattle, a position which they 
occupied for four years, after which they were reinstated to 
their former place immediately after the Devons, which they 
have held ever since. 
For sixteen consecutive years, therefore — from 1874 to 
1889 — the Sussex breed has been established as one having 
a right to separate Classes at the Society's Shows, and to ac- 
company the Society in all its travels, which have within that 
time included visits to Liverpool, Preston, York, Carlisle, and 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; and for twelve years it has held its place 
in the group of first four breeds. At the Kilburn International 
