Report on the Cattle Exhibited at Windsor. 
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That vessel, beginning very little behind the umbilical point, goes 
backward with an almost horizontal outline, only gently swelling 
downward, without any sudden drop, and rising up behind into 
the escutcheon or twist. It covers, in fact, great space, and is 
less distinguishable from the body than the average appendage 
which does duty as a milk-vessel in other breeds. In some 
instances the stupid fashion for diminutive nipples had left its 
impress, but in many instances there was a fair hand-hold for the 
milkmaid, without unshapely size or coarseness. 
Six Classes, three of males and three of females, contained 
altogether fifty entries : Bulls of 1883-6 numbered seven ; two- 
year-old Bulls, five ; yearling Bulls, five, making seventeen bulls ; 
Cows, fourteen ; two-year-old Heifers, nine ; yearling Heifers, 
ten, bringing np the number of cows and heifers to thirty-three, 
or a total of fifty Ayrshires. One of the most remarkable facts 
of the Show was the prevailing excellence of the descendants 
of one bull, " Hover-a-Blink," the Society's Premier bull at 
Preston four years ago, and winner of many prizes and of 
Champion honours at the leading shows in Scotland as well as 
in England. He was bred by Mr. Hutcheson, of Stairs, and 
used and exhibited by Mr. W. Bartlemore, of whose celebrated 
bull, " Silver King," he was the sire. In the Aged Bull Class 
at Windsor, all the three Prize-winners were sons of " Hover-a- 
Blink." One of those bulls, Mr. Osborne's " Cock-a-Bendie," 
the Champion at Newcastle, again gained the Championship. 
In the Two-year-old Class, all the three winners and the 
Reserved Bull were sons of " Cock-a-Bendie," and in the 
Yearling Class one of his sons had the Second Prize. In the 
Two-year-old Heifer Class a heifer of extraordinary merit, Mr, 
Mitchell's " Nellie of Barcheskie," a daughter of " Cock-a- 
Bendie," was First in her Class and winner of the Champion 
Prize as best female and the Queen's Gold Medal as best 
Ayrshire ; and a daughter of " Hover-a-Blink," Second and 
Reserve for Her Majesty's Medal, her full sister taking the 
First Prize in the Yearling Class. The award of Reserve for 
the Gold Medal to a Second Prize animal might appear at 
first sight an anomaly ; but if the Judges thought Mr. Stewart's 
" Betty of South wick " a better animal than her yearling 
own sister, than the First Prize cow, and than the Champion 
bull, they were obviously within their powers in giving effect 
to that opinion. 
Report of the Judges of Ayrshire Cattle, 
[Classes 129 to 1.34.] 
Class 129 — The Aged Bulls—were a very good Class. The first three 
prize animals were as good as ever came under our inspection, even in their 
native county. 
