478 Report of the Stewards of Stock at the Worcester Show. 
Ryeland and Welsh, or other Mountain Breeds. — Only 
five shearling rams and two pens of theaves %vere entered from 
three flocks, and the two prizes were won by Mr. J. B. Downing 
of Holme Lacey. His ram had very nice character and sub- 
stance, good ribs and shoulders, and quite that Cotswold top- 
knot which is calculated to save many a sore head from being 
patched over with rag and tar. Its touch was as firm as wax, 
and it stood on " two pair of fore-legs." The breed has proved 
itself hardy, and well calculated to cross with the Welsh sheep of 
the district. The entries in the Mountain Breeds included six 
Lancashire Lonks (to whose tap-root some of the Welshmen laid 
claim), and only two Exmoors ; but Mr. Jonathan Peel, with his 
celebrated " Mountain King " tribe, took everything before him. 
The judges thus remark on these local classes : — 
"Class CYII.-X. — The Byeland sheep shown on this occasion were a very 
good specimen of a breed now almost extinct, but which were I'ormerly in 
great favour in Hereford. Some of the "Welsh sheep bear evidence of having 
been transplanted to a better soil than that from which the veritable Wel.sh 
mutton is supposed to come. The winning Lonks were of great size, with 
heavy, strong wool, and consequently vanquished the more orthodox-looking 
little mountaineers opposed to them. Still we could not help thinking that 
over a haunch of the latter, at the proper season, the decisions might have 
been reversed, although in the show-yards they could not be so." 
Pigs. — The principal feature of this part of the show was the 
great advance made by the Berkshires, whose entries increased 
from 39 to 51. ^The head prize both in the boar and sow classes was 
won last year by the late Sir R. G. Throckmorton ; and Mr. W. 
Hewer and Mr. W. J. Sadler, who then took seconds in these classes 
respectively, stood first this year. In the Boar Class there were 
three "highly commended" and three "commended." The Sow 
Class was commended as a whole, and the third place was again 
awarded to the Royal Agricultural College. The first prize for 
the pen of three sows went to a new exhibitor, Mr. Joyce, of 
County Waterford, whose entries were also third, and highly 
commended in the boar class. Mr. Wainman showed in ten clasjses, 
and bettered his five firsts and two seconds at Battersea, with 
seven firsts, a second, and a third. His " Worcester Duke, late 
Albert," " King Cube," "The Nabob," " Lord of the Wassail,"^ 
" Fresh Hope," and a pen of young sows, entitled " Advance 
Symmetry," " Advance Quality," and " No Surrender," were 
first prize winners. Mr. Crisp had four firsts for his sow and 
boar of the small black breed, and his small white and middle 
white sows. In the last-named class lie beat Mr. Wainman's- 
" Lucky Link " and " Happy Link," which were not so fortunate 
as "Missing Link" in 1862. Suffolk's small black boar contest 
again lay between Mr. Sexton and Mr. Crisp, and with the 
opposite result to last year. One of the Pig Judges thus 
writes : — 
