676 Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Preston, 1885. 
list with a somewhat coarse boar, beating Colonel Lane and 
Mr. Swanwick, whose pigs showed more quality. Mr. Tombs 
also got first with a very grand young boar. The Breeding 
Sow Class was well filled, a very neat blue-skinned sow of 
Mr. Corp's winning, with six others mentioned. This was the 
strongest class of the Show ; the pigs were very fat, and the same 
remark applies to the pens of three of this breed. It seems 
impossible to win prizes with any but animals as fit for 
butchering as breeding. 
In the so-much improved Tarn worths, Mr. Allender was, as 
might have been expected, well-nigh invincible, winning most of 
the prizes with fine specimens of this breed, which is so rapidly 
advancing to the front as most profitable bacon-producers. 
Report of the Judges of Slack, Berkshire, and Tamworth Pigs. 
Class 163. — First prize, nice character, hair, and form ; second prize is a 
useful pig of fair character. 
Class 164. — Not a good class. First-prize jMg rather coarse in his 
shoulders. 
Class 165. — A good class. No. 1481, a beautiful sow, quite first ; No. 1479, 
a nice sow, but rather small ; No. 1484, a very nice sow, with a few white 
hairs, which we considered denoted impurity of breed, therefore did not award 
her a prize. Nos. 1485 and 1486 very good specimens of the breed. 
Class No. 166. — No. 1487 ; a patchy pen. 
Class 167. — Not a good class ; very unsatisfactory to judge. 
Class 168. — First prize, a very good pig, far away the best in the class ;. 
the remainder being indifferent. 
Class 169. — Nos. 1519, 1530, and 1522 were three very good sjjecimens 
of the breed. The first-prize sow being quite in character of the breed — wide, 
long, low, and full of hair; the second prize was a deep good sow in beautiful 
form ; the third-prize sow, having bred pigs, did not appear so youthful. 
This class contained several good specimens of the breed. 
Class 170. — Three pens in this class showed symptoms of impurity of 
breed — black tails appearing in each lot, which, in our judgment, is not cha- 
racteristic of the breed. The first-prize pen were good ; the markings being 
just sufficient to entitle them to take their position. * 
Classes 171, 172, 173, and 174. — The Old Boars did not impress upon 
our minds that they were a class of pig desirable to breed from. The Soivs 
certainly were an improvement, particularly No. 1557, which showed some 
amount of symmetry. 
Joseph Smith. 
John Treadwell. 
Richard Fowler. 
Beport of the Veterinary Surgeons on the Dentition of Pigs. 
Having examined pigs in pens Nos. 1426, 1454, and 1477, we certify that 
the state of the dentition indicates the ago to be above that stated in t]w 
certificate of entry. 
Wm. Robertson. 
W. DuGUin. 
G. T. Brown. 
