Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Preston, 1885. 677 
Absentees. 
The number of absentees was so considerable, that a per- 
centage table is presented : this shows that the should-be 
exhibitors of pigs are the greatest sinners ; next to them are the 
owners of cattle, and it is to be noted that the Jersey classes 
alone show absentees amounting to 27^ per cent, of their number. 
Surely this is a greater number than necessary, and it must be 
remarked that, in addition to the unreasonable expansion of 
the stockyard and its consequent expense, " the beggarly 
account of empty boxes " does not afford by any means a satis- 
factory spectacle : — 
Preston Showyard, 1885. 
Horses, &c. . . 438 
Absent 79 = 18 per cent. 
Cattle 539 
Absent 112 = nearly 21 per cent. 
Sheep 433 
Absent 47 = more than 10 per cent. 
Pigs 203 
Absent 46 = more than 22 per cent. 
List of Absentees. 
Horses. 
Nos. 8, 20, 28, 81, 33, 88, 42, 47, 50, 52, 56, 60, 68, 70, 72, 
73, 74, 75, 100, 109, 138, 138*, 147, 147*, 153, 155, 156, 158, 
165, 168, 188, 189, 193, 201, 203, 205, 208, 215, 220, 227, 228, 
233, 234, 236, 237, 239, 244, 247, 248, 254, 255, 262, 263, 268, 
275, 294, 298, 299, 301, 302, 306, 308, 309, 811, 312, 315, 322, 
323, 332, 333, 342, 351, 855, 857, 864, 378, 381, 400, 401. 
Cattle. 
Nos. 409, 415, 420, 425, 427, 429, 432, 434, 440, 444, 452, 
456, 465, 468, 469, 470, 471, 475, 479, 482, 484, 487, 502, 505, 
511, 516, 523, 586, 588, 541, 542, 550, 552, 557, 559, 561, 572, 
578, 589, 591, 598, 600, 601, 604, 607, 616, 620, 621, 623, 635, 
636, 644, 645, 646, 649, 656, 657, 661, 668, 670, 677, 698, 701, 
702, 703, 714, 718, 724, 728, 736, 788, 789, 741, 749, 751, 752, 
756, 757, 760, 761, 762, 776, 779, 781, 794, 795, 797, 798, 799, 
805, 807, 808, 820, 823, 824, 826, 828, 838, 835, 836, 844, 846, 
849, 879, 880, 898, 904, 914, 917, 924, 935. 
