I\ej)ort oil ihe Sheep Ujcliibiied at Wiadtior. 
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" this laardy mountain sheep has much improved of late years. 
Instead of, as formerly, seeing sheep nearly all hair, and that not 
of a good colour, we had to-day a good hardy sheep, growing 
fair good wool, with but little hair, and not much of it dark- 
coloured." Herdwicks made their first appearance in a Hoyal 
Showyard at Carlisle in 1855. At Windsor there were thirty- 
three entries. The Champion Prize offered by the Lord Mayor 
of London was won by the representatives of the late Hugh P. 
Holme, other prize-winners being Messrs. Tom Newby, H. C. 
Howard, J. Spencer, and J. Rothery. 
The huffe Lonks had their earliest home in the hill rangfes 
of Yorkshire and Lancashire, to which they were probably in- 
digenous. They seem to have affinity to the black-faced breed 
of the Scotch mountains. There was a good show of Lonks at 
Battersea in 1862, and again at Worcester in 1863. It was 
said of them at the latter Show that " if the Lonks be as hardy 
as they are good they must be the most valuable sheep for the 
hills that we have at present." As their hardiness is beyond 
dispute, this was high praise. At Windsor the entries of this 
breed were seventeen, but the prizes were well divided. Messrs. 
Walton Bros., William Walsh, Mitchell Dearden, and J. Black- 
burn, and Mrs. W. C. Dawson, were the winners. 
The Judges did not think very highly of the nineteen entries 
of the blue-faced breed of the Yorkshire wolds. The prizes in the 
AVensleydale Classes went to Messrs. John Heugh, Frank Heugh, 
William Lamb, and T. F. King. 
The Limestone sheep are, like the Lonks, probably akin to 
the Black-faces, notwithstanding their present colour. Only ten 
entries were made, but they made a good representation of the 
breed, the prize-winners (and only exhibitors) being Messrs. 
T. A. Cornthwaite, Rowland Parker, and Isaac Barrow. 
Report of the Judges oj WensJeydale (Classes 212 to 214), Limestone 
(Classes 218 to 220), Herdwick (Classes 227 to 229), and Lonk 
Sheep (Classes 230 to 232). 
Wensleydale. 
Class 212. Rmns Two-shear and upicards. — With regard to this Class 
we are sorry to inform the Coimcil that it was only inferior and much below 
our expectations. 
Class 213 — Shearling Hams — were also very inferior. 
Class 214 — Shearling Eives — were of a far better type. 
LlJIESTOJJi;. 
Classes 218 and 219 — Rams — were very good, and we quite agreed that 
a Third Prize should be given in Class 219. 
Class 220. Shearling Eives. — These were also good, and we also awarded 
a Third Prize. 
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