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by a really good sow, with plenty of quality of flesh and hair. 
Mr. Walker Jones and Colonel Piatt followed with two about 
equal, in a good class, in which eight animals received favour- 
able notice. Of the Younger Sows, the very neat pen of 
Mr. Nuttall were much admired. 
The Small Whites showed distinctly below the average, and 
appear to be losing the uniformity of type which formerly 
•distinguished tbem. ]Mr. Ashcroft's boar is a good square 
animal ; but the third-prize pig, bred by Lord Ellesmere, was by 
many preferred to the winner. The Queen exhibited in this 
class, obtaining the reserve for "Regulus," a neat pig. Lords 
Moreton and Radnor alone competed in the nest class, the former 
winning with a boar which does not show the very perfect form 
•of head and snout of former Tort worth Court pigs. Several 
■ Sows appeared, and Mr. Walker Jones and Lord Radnor won in 
a fairly good class. 
Report of the Judges of Pigs of the Wliite Breeds. 
Class 151. — Only two exhibits. 
Class 152. — First-prize pig very level in flesh, faulty in his head. Only 
■two exhibits. 
Class 153. — A large class of very good animals. 
Class 154.— With the exception of the first-prize pen, this class was not 
■ quite true to character. 
Class 155. — In this class we found a pig of great merit, which ought to 
have been exhibited in the Large Breed Class The first-prize winner in this 
• class was a very good animal. 
Class 156. — Only one pig was exhibited in this class, which we did not 
■consider of sufficient merit for a first prize. 
Class 157. — A large and extraordinary good class. 
Class 158. — A very moderate class. 
Class 159. — A fair class. 
Class 160. — Only three exhibits, of no special merit. 
Class 161. — A fairly good class. 
Class 162. — Three pens of nearly equal merit. In this class we recom- 
mended the Council to award a third prize. 
On the whole we consider the show of White Pigs considerably below the 
standard of former years, many exhibits being absent. We are glad to notice 
that in all the classes in which we have adjudicated there are only two 
disqualifications. 
John Argus, 
John Barrox. 
George Mangles. 
Black Pigs. — In the Small Blacks, the success of "Slv. Duck- 
ering was complete, he taking firsts for both Classes of Boars 
and for Breeding Sows. Berkshires were well represented, in 
all 56 entries, but there were many absentees. The non- 
appearance of Lord Ellesmere's Whites from the preceding 
classes was very noticeable, and so was the absence of 
Mr. Benjafield's Blacks. Mr. Edward Tombs headed the 
