628 Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stoch at Preston, 1885. 
Judging commenced at nine o'clock on Wednesday morning, 
JuIt 15th, under "a southerly wind and a cloudy sky."- Rain, 
howeyer, kept off until the afternoon, when one of the yiolent 
showers which seem natural to the Country Meetings converted 
the !Moor Park lor a time into a howling wilderness, driving all 
to shelter who could obtain it, and rendering the task of judging 
in some of the Hackney Classes difficult and disagreeable. 
Careful examination of the animals exhibited, and candid 
comparison with Exhibitions of past years, lead to the following 
conclusions. 
In comparing the number of entries of live-stock at the 
different Country Meetings for the term since 1877, omitting 
the abnormal display at Kilburn in 1879, it will be seen that 
the Preston Show in its entirety reached quite an average, the 
number there being in excess of Reading, Derby, Carlisle, and 
Bristol, but slightly inferior to 1 ork and Shrewsbury. The 
presence of nearly 200 extra horses at York, and the large 
entrv of Hereford cattle and Shropshire sheep at Shrewsbury, 
raised the entries to 1685 and 1687 respectively, the latter 
being the largest number shown in the period indicated. 
Statemest of E>'TBiES for the Peestox Meetisg in Jcxt, 1885, 
compared with Seven PEEviors Teabs. 
XrMBEB OF A^"ISIAI.s EC Stock-Taed. 
ISSo. 
ShrewsbuTT, 
1SS4. 
York, 
1S53. 
Eeading, 
18S2. 
Derby, 
ISSl. 
Csrlisie, 
1S«0. 
LoDdon, 
i»;9. 
13:8. 
Horses .. 
43S 
4u7 
611 
239 
256 
S15 
350 
Cattle .. 
539 
579 
462 
598 
392 
434 
1007 
443 
Sheep .. 
433 
490 
412 
442 
414 
434 
841 
397 
Pigs .. 
203 
211 
200 
188 
167 
146 
211 
164 
Total .. 
1613 
16S7 
1CS5 
1467 
1229 
1501 
2S74 
1354 
HORSES. 
The show of Horses was superior in number to many 
previous Exhibitions, but it must be admitted that this depart- 
ment does not attain the pre-eminence which the title of the 
Society implies, as the numbers shown were exceeded this 
season at the more recently established Show at Peterborough, 
where there were 484 entries, and at Glasgow, where more 
than 500 appeared. On comparing the lists of Preston, 
Shrewsbury, and York, it will be seen that York much ex- 
