exhibited at the Society's Meeting, 1882. 
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Class 48 had only three competitors, and calls for no particular remark. 
Class 49. — No. 39G (first prize) is one of the most perfect bulls we have 
seen, possessing remarkable substance and symmetry, and being evenly and 
thickly covered with flesh. No. 401 (second prize) is a grand specimen. The 
reserve number (No. 399) we recommended for a third prize, as he has great 
size, excellent character, deep flesli, and good symmetry. 
Class 50. — This is a good class; first, second, and third prizes, and reserved 
number, all possess great merit. 
Class 51. — An excellent class and all commended. No. 416 (first prize), 
a grand cow, with beautiful character and excellent flesh. No. 414 (second 
prize), a very level animal, but slightly deficient in style. No. 412 (third 
prize), a cow of great substance and excellent character. 
Class 52. — No. 425 (first prize), a superior heifer, and evenly and thickly 
covered with the best of flesh. No. 426 (second prize) is very massive, and 
will make a fine cow. No. 427 (reserve number) is full of merit, and we 
recommended that the third prize be given her. 
Class 53. — First, second, and reserve number all possess great merit, and 
we strongly recommended that third prize be given to the reserve number. 
Class 54. — First prize (No. 452) is a model of perfection, and second and 
third prizes are excellent specimens of their breed, and there are several 
others in this class of great promise. 
Class 55. — No. 457 (first prize), a very level and good cow, with two heifer 
calves born in September last, and, like their dam, true in form and of 
excellent character. No. 458 (second prize) ; the dam is a large and grand 
cow, but one of her produce lacks style and character. 
H. Haywood. 
G. W. Baker. 
Devons. 
Upon the question of size, the remarks of the Devon Judges 
well merit attention. It is quite true that the size (for which 
critics, who deem themselves utilitarian, clamour) is a point of 
comparatively small importance in the closer-bred herds, whose 
function is to produce sires. Size can almost always be super- 
added by one cross ; but it takes a dozen crosses to mend a 
faulty conformation. Therefore the epithet, " pretty little 
Devons," is properly used in disparagement at the Christmas 
Shows ; but it constitutes a sneer quite out of place at a 
show of breeding stock. It is not likely that any one with an 
eye for shape will have overlooked Viscount Falmouth's two 
first-prize bulls " Sir Michael " and " Plum-pudding," or Mr, 
Bradbeer's " Nellie " (first-prize adult-cow). They were almost 
perfect. And that the breed is not degenerating, Mr. A. C. 
Skinner's first prize-yearling bull '• Lord Currypool," and first- 
prize yearling heifer "Lady Passmore" (both of one blood), are 
sufficient evidence. These were both from Stowey Court. 
" Myrtle 7th " (of his own breeding) seemed just the heifer to put 
to " Lord Currypool." She has more size than is common ; and 
an udder equal to any Ayrshire's. From two such parents 
the produce should equal the Hereford " Leonora " and 
" Princess." But the Judges of these, the Sussex and the Red- 
