Itiport on the Cattle Exhibited at Windsor. 
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Judges had no hesitation in awarding the prize to the eight-year-old cow, 
No. 1983, Snowjlake, exhibited by Mr. Arkwright, and already described 
under her Class. 
William Ashceoj't. 
John Feedekick Hall. 
Guernsey Cattle. 
The Guernsey Judges, like the Hereford Judges, give a reason 
why aged cows and three-year-old cows or heifers should not be 
judged together. The Hereford J udges say that the cows have no 
chance against the heifers ; the Guernsey Judges that the heifers 
have no chance against the cows. Both are right. The 
Hereford, a beef breed, has the beef-points in perfection at three 
years old or under ; the Guernsey, a dairy breed, does not 
mature the dairy points until the cow is of full age. 
We have seen in the introductory notes to the Channel 
Islands breeds that the Guernsey has not, like the Jersey, had 
an unbroken course of nineteen years in special Classes at the 
Society's Shows ; that although for twelve years after the sepa- 
ration from the Jerseys, 1871-82 inclusive, it had them, three 
years without them immediately followed, and the present year 
is only the fourth of its restoration to the schedule. The reason 
is not far to seek. It has been very uncertain in competition, 
sometimes, as this year at Windsor, enormously strong ; some- 
times, as at Liverpool in 1877, miserably weak. Although now 
established in England, with an English Herd-book, it has not 
yet spread itself over the country like the Jersey. The Classes 
at Windsor, which were very good indeed throughout, were filled 
mainly from the southern counties of England, about 112 entries 
having come fi'om southern districts of the English mainland, 
ten from the Isle of Wight, seven from the northern counties 
(Yorkshire and Cheshire), and seven from the native island of 
the breed : five entries not included in the above enumeration had 
been withdrawn. The aged Bulls numbered ten; yearling and 
two-year-old Bulls in one Class, twenty-six, one withdrawn ; aged 
Cows and three-year-old Cows and Heifers in one Class, fifty-two, 
four withdrawn ; three-year-old Heifers, twenty-two ; and year- 
ling Heifers, thirty-one. — Total, 141 entries, including the five 
withdrawn. The Judges, like those of the Jersey Classes, have 
supplied ample descriptive particulars. 
Report of the Judges of Guernsey Cattle. 
[Classes 142 to 146.] 
We have to report that all the Classes are of exceptional merit. That 
for cows or heifers calved in or before 188G was without doubt the best 
collection of animals of the kind ever got together, and contained several 
