672 Report on the Exhibition of Live- Stock at Preston, 1885. 
Boeder Leicester and Cheviots. 
These two varieties were placed under the same set of Judges. 
Of the former breed there were 23 entries, and of the latter 10. 
Lords Arthur and Lionel Cecil showed in both kinds, and won 
with a fine Cheviot Ram. The Border Leicesters are handsome 
sheep of large size and fair fleece. They are used for crossing 
with the native breeds of the hill districts, and their owners 
claim for them purity of blood for at least a century. Mr. 
Robert Wallis's fine Shearlings were put first and second, and 
Mr. Twentyman was very successful. The Cheviots were from 
both sides of the Border, and some good specimens of the race 
were shown. 
Beport of the Judges of Border Leicesters. 
Class 108. Border Leicesters. — We found in the Four Classes for Border 
Leicesters some very good animals, especially the Shearling Bams, which 
was the best class, but no class was largely represented. Cheviot Sheep, 
Classes 136 and 137 were good, but small entries. 
John Davison. 
George Eea. 
Of the Ryelands from the plains of Herefordshire ; the 
enormous unshorn Lonk, weighing, according to his attendant, 
3^ cwt.; of the Grey-faced and Black-faced mountaineers ; of the 
superlatively active Welsh ; and of the diminutive Herdwicks, — 
all of which competed for valuable prizes offered for the most 
part by the Preston Local Committee, not much can be said, but 
what is supplied by the Report of the Judges of this miscellany. 
An exception must be made, however, in noticing the fine pen 
of Suffolk Theaves shown by Mr. Joseph Smith, of Woodbridge. 
These are evidently a variety of such merit as should be 
recognised by a separate class in the Prize-list, combining, as 
they do, a large quantity of mutton of fine quality with a 
fleece of more than medium weight, and being also extremely 
valuable for purposes of cross-breeding. Mr. Smith was suc- 
cessful with sheep from Suffolk, both at Shrewsbury and York ; 
and the Judges' Reports in both those instances were of a 
favourable character. 
Beport of the Judges of Grey-faced, BlacJc-faced, and Welsh Sheep. 
Class 138. Bums. — Two distinct breeds of sheep were shown against each 
other, both good of their respective breeds, but difficult to place in compe- 
tition with each other. 
Class 139. J'hves. — The SuffoUcs in this class were of high merit. 
(Jlass 142. Shearling Ewes. — Four pens of good sheep. 
Class 113. Jtams of the Black-Faced Breed. — A good stamp of shceji, well- 
made and well-woolk'd. The Shearling Ewes iu this class were of high merit. 
