686 Hepori on the Sheep Exhibited at Windsor, 
better pasturage ; where it finds such, the old breed remains. 
Upon inferior land the Leicester establishes itself, from the 
necessity of having smaller size and shorter wool." In 1851, 
when the late John Algernon Clarke wrote on the farming of 
Lincolnshire in the Society's Journal,' he stated that the pure 
old-fashioned Lincolns were then scarcely to be found, except 
iu some few places in the south-eastern lowland and the rich 
eastern marshes. In point of fact, the breeders of the county, 
with much skill and intelligence, formed what was practically 
a new breed by selecting from the old stock and using a 
judicious mixture of Leicester blood. They thus, while retain- 
ing the large frame and unrivalled wool-producing qualities of 
the breed, imparted to it a more symmetrical shape and a 
greater aptitude to fatten. 
The Lincoln breeders at one time cherished a grievance 
against the Society for its tardiness in pi'oviding separate 
Classes for their sheep. At Battersea, in 1862, Classes were 
provided, but owing, possibly, to an unwise feeling of resent- 
ment, the breeders failed to take adequate advantage of them, 
the display of the breed being reported as " weak in numbers 
and in stamp." It was not until eight years afterwards that 
separate Classes were again given, although most of the prizes 
during the interval in the "Lincoln and other Long- wool" 
Classes were won by sheep of this breed. 
The wide renown of the present Lincoln breed does not 
date from earlier than 1850, but since that year it has made 
great strides in public favour, being largely di'awn upon by 
foreign customers. Some twenty or twenty-five years ago, 
when wool-production was for awhile so lucrative, Lincolns 
made extravagant prices, one celebrated ram being let in five 
successive years at an aggregate of nearly 600 guineas. Their 
value, especially for exportation, is still great, and at the Windsor 
Show three Lincolns were said to have been sold for 500 guineas. 
There were fifty-eight entries of this breed at Windsor, in- 
cluding an excellent Class of thirty-one shearlings. Only three 
names appear in the list of prizes, viz. those of Messrs. Robert 
Wright, Henry Dudding, and John Pears. 
The following is the report of the Judges on the Leicesters, 
Cotswolds, and Lincolns, the names of the exhibitors of the 
sheep alluded to by them being here, as in other reports, added 
so as to render their remarks intelligible without reference to 
the list of awards : — 
» Vol. XII. 1st Series (1851), pp. 259-114. 
