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Report of the Live-Stock 
Sussex. 
The Sussex bulls are not often handsome. The oxen are 
grand, and the cows stately ; but the bulls, as a rule, look 
commoners. Yet Messrs. Stanford's " Goldsmith " is an excep- 
tion. His sirloin and steaks might make the Devon men 
jealous ; if their cattle were, as some of the best of them 
might very well be, put behind him. The first-prize adult-cow, 
Mr. A. Agate's " Snowdrop " (Peony would have been a more 
appropriate name), is rather blowsy, with over-protuberant hips ; 
yet she has a remarkably fine carcass of beef. Captain Philip 
Green's second-prize animal was more shapely ; but had lost 
some of her coat from scurf. Mr. J. S. Hodgson's " Laura 
5th," although very perfect in form, was properly kept out of 
the prize-list : for she has had no calf, and shows no cer- 
tainty that she now carries one. The yearling heifers were 
very neat ; and previous judgments were frequently reversed. 
It is hardly possible to prevent this when a breed — as cer- 
tainly is the case with the Sussex — has not yet settled down 
to one type. It may be said that Captain Philip Green's 
heifer had an unusual development of udder for this breed, 
which should prove a valuable tendency to milk ; a weak point, 
it may be thought, with the Sussex. 
Beport of the Judges of Sussex. 
Without reflecting on the owners of animals exhibited twenty years ago, 
no breed has been so much improved in appearance as the big Devon-like 
beasts now so well known as Sussex cattle. With more size, a deeper colour, 
higher on the leg — with less " finish " — less elegance, but of a more robust 
appearance, they give one quite the idea of being of Devonshire extraction. 
How far back the common ancestor lived we must leave to the Sussex breeders, 
who, at any rate, have established a class of animals of great uniformity of 
character, good looks, and of a most serviceable type. They have in a 
marked degree lost the unlevel outline which once was noticeable among 
them ; and, while still retaining immense length, they have built up a carcass 
good enough for the most fastidious West-end butcher. 
The eleven BuUs in Class 64 were quite a sight as they came into the ring. 
The Messrs. Stanford — whose combination of judgment seems to have brought 
them to the front in other classes than Sussex cattle— took first prize with 
" Goldsmith," a five-year-old bull ; as grand good-looking an animal as one 
could wish to see — a winner, we understand, more than once before. The 
second prize went to Mr. Hodgson's " Oxford," another five-year-old ; but the 
third was conceded to a younger bull, an animal which bids fair to become 
a most wonderful development of good flesh. Ho was only nineteen months 
old, and might have passed (or a three-year-old. This was " Lord Oxford 
a son of the winner of the second i^rize, and belonged to the same ownci 
On the whole, this was a very grand class of breeding animals ; and we dis- 
tributed several commendations, in addition to the three prizes offered. 
The Messrs. Stanford were first and second in the young bulls — with well- 
grown animals of their age, which had good looks and fair forms. 
The Cows were not a whit behind the Bull classes in massive frames of well- 
