Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stoch at Taunton. GO^'t 
the same sire, as the third-prize winner in the last class, was third, 
beating " Lord Rockville," who was in front of him at Croydon. 
; Mr. Denis de Vitre won the first prize with his bull-calf " Duke 
of Ock ;" but " Hudibras, ' with whom Mr. Oriel Viveash came 
second, may reverse places with him when another year is over 
their heads. In the female classes of Shorthorns there were 
many good animals — a few extraordinarily good ones. The 
cows above three years of age took the Judges' fancy so much 
that they commended them as a class ; and as iNIr. Outhwaite's 
" Vivandiere " did not, though entered, come to Taunton, the way- 
was made comparatively smooth for "Lady Playful," who fs fami- 
liar by this time to most of those who attend the principal Shows, 
It was impossible to help admiring the roan " Alexandria," who 
took second prize, with her great roomy frame, upon which, 
perhaps, there is already rather too much of the meat which is 
more in its place at Bingley Hall and Islington than in the 
yard of the Royal. In the 3-year-old heifer class Mr. Hutchin- 
son was second with " Lady Alicia,"- — a' heifer going back by 
"Lady Playful," through her grand-dam to " Baron Warlaby " and 
" Vesuvius" — to Mr. Kennard, whose " Queen Mary" was here, a& 
everywhere, the perfection of Shortliorn beauty, and not to be 
dislodged from the first place of which she has the monopoly. 
Of the twenty heifers exhibited in the yearling class, the three 
Croydon winners were again " placed," " Zvesda " being once 
more first ; but " Olga" was put back behind " Winsome 16th," 
whom she beat at the Bath and West of England Show. There 
were many good animals in the class for heifer calves, the 
:Judges giving Mr. Nicholson the red ribbon for his dainty heifer 
" Laurel 6th." 
Much less numerous, of course, than the Shorthorns, the 
iHerefords were, however, very well represented in point of 
quality ; and if the Society offered " champion prizes," Mr. 
Carwardine's beautiful heifer " Helena," winner of the first prize- 
in the yearling class, would have been difficult to beat, for she 
has not a bad point about her. After winning at Bedford and 
elsewhere last year, she came out at Croydon in June, and again 
took first honours ; but she was seized with illness there, and it 
is wonderful that she should have been brought round so rapidly 
IS to be able to appear in the bloom of condition at Taunton. 
(It has been said that the Herefords are much cultivated in. 
jSomersetshire ; but the truth is that there is probably no western 
county in which the whitefaces make so small a show, unless it bo 
Cornwall and Devon. This was made pretty clear by the fact 
:hat of the fifty-eight Herefords entered at Taunton, only eight 
belonged to Somersetshire breeders, and of these Mr. Peren, who 
shows all the country over, owned seven. The male Herefords 
