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Show in 1879, there were eighty-five Sussex entries, and 
Mr. Bowstead, in his official report upon the cattle, observed : 
" Exhibitors of this hardy, beef-yielding breed cannot be too 
highly complimented on the extraordinary fine Classes they 
brought out at Kilburn. Many a one was heard to exclaim to 
those near him, ' But have you seen the Sussex cattle ? ' 
Equally with the Channel Islanders, they formed one of the 
main features of a generally splendid exhibition of the bovine 
race." The Classes were indeed good, exceedingly good, 
throughout, and it is worthy of remark that whereas in former 
years it was repeatedly said that the younger Classes compared 
unfavourably with those of full-grown animals, at Kilburn the 
younger Classes were exceedingly good, marking the progress 
of the breed in its development for early maturity. The yearling 
heifers were described by the Judges as " exceptionally good," 
and of the heifer calves, seventeen entries, the Judges wrote, 
" Never before were seen together such a grand lot of calves of 
this now acknowledged famous breed, not one of which was 
unworthy to compete at a Royal Show." 
Taking the farthest points north at which they have been 
exhibited in the Society's Classes, we find them at Carlisle, 1880, 
favourably described by the official reporter, Mr. Finlay Dun, 
who noticed that much-needed attention had been paid to 
milking capabilities, and that Messrs. Stanford's First Prize cow, 
" Hardy," ten years old, and " victorious in many a show-yard, 
has, with other good points, a great square-set vessel, with teats 
well apart " ; and Mr. James Macdonald, reporting upon the 
cattle Classes at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1887, describes a small 
but creditable display of the Sussex breed. 
Comparing the Windsor Show of 1889 with that of 1851, we 
find in one Class alone, that of heifers calved in 1888, as many 
entries — twenty-two— as there were in the whole of the Sussex 
Classes at the previous Windsor Show, and putting all the 
Classes together, a grand total of ninety-seven entries, or twelve 
more than at Kilburn. In an altogether fine show of cattle, as 
the Jubilee Show at Windsor unquestionably was, the Sussex 
Classes, especially those of females, were conspicuously good. 
The Sussex bulls have seldom been regarded by outsiders as 
equal to the cows and heifers, but for my own part I should 
hesitate to say that I wished to see them altered — which would 
mean to see them refined. There is a robust masculine charac- 
ter about them which I like, although it may not be commonly 
considered quite the right thing for the show-yard. The late 
Mr. Richard Booth, of Warlaby, used to keep his Shorthorn bulls 
generally in low condition. They were therefore not seen in 
