Beport on tJio Sheejj ExhihUed at Windsor. 699 
winnera were Lord Hotlifield, Messrs, Henry Rigden, Heury 
Page, and Thomas Wotton. 
Any other Breed. 
The fact that the same Judges were allotted to the Romney 
Marsh and to the " Any other Breed" Classes renders it con- 
venient to take these sections together here. 
There was a remarkable collection of all sorts and conditions 
of sheep in these two Classes, and the Judges — as their report 
reveals — were obviously (and pardonably) puzzled in dealing 
with them. They awarded all the prizes to some South Devons 
— big, useful-looking sheep — sent by Mr. James Stooke. They 
were certainly, from an ordinary sheep-farmer's point of view, 
the best-looking entries in the section. The most interesting, 
however, were the little black four-horned St. Kilda sheep, 
which, as ovine curiosities, aroused much attention. Lord 
Moreton, who keeps a number of these sheep, has kindly sent 
the following notes respecting them : — 
" The black-horned St. Kilda sheep are said to be the 
descendants of some sheep that got ashore from an Armada 
ship that was wrecked on the island. Whether there is any 
truth in this tradition it would probably be now impossible to 
discover. The late Mr. Staniforth had quite a number of them 
at Storrs ; they were sold at his death and got spread about 
England. Although my sheep have probably been bred for 
several generations in England, they are still inclined to be 
wild. As far as I can make out, the first pair of horns begins to 
show some time before the second. At Mr. Staniforth's sale I 
saw a I'am sold for £6 that had three pairs of horns. I find the 
mutton excellent, though of course the joints are small. I get 
three to four pounds of wool off my sheep, and the wool is of 
good quality. As a matter of fact, although they are called 
black sheep, they are really brown. Of course, they cannot 
compete in an economic point of view with our improved breeds, 
but at the same time they are very ornamental additions to a 
park, and are very far from useless, as any one would allow who 
tasted the mutton." 
Several Merinos were exhibited in these two Classes. Some 
had been bred in Britain and some in the Antipodes, but they 
served mainly to illustrate the failure of this famous breed to 
acclimatise itself in this country. When the Society was 
founded, there were still many who believed that the introduc- 
tion of the Merino was for sheep-breeders a short cut to pros- 
perity. The belief in the' Merino is one of the traditions Which 
the Society has seen die. Indeed, by its omission to assist in its 
