Report of the Senior Steward of Live-Stoch at Nottingham. 617 
but none put in an appearance. The two other classes were repre- 
sented by a few animals with perfect action and old prize-takers that go the 
round of the Shows and are bad to beat. This might be the cause of the 
short entry. 
We recommend the Council to consider if it would not be desirable, in the 
interest of the breeders and for the purpose of increasing the entries, to make 
a rule that no animal should take the same prize two years in succession. 
We think it would have that eftect. 
James Hohnsby. 
Iloii£B Williams. 
Report of the Judges of Hackneys and Ponies. 
[Classes 12 to 14, 23 to 25, and 43 to 46.] 
The Judges, in reviewing the classes which passed under their observa- 
tion, consider that generally the entries were very creditable, and much above 
the average. They noticed particularly in Classes 12 and 14 (Stallions), 
23 {Mares above 14.2 tvith Foals), and 43 and 44 (Mares and Geldings), that 
the winners were very superior in appearance, action, and breeding. 
The Judges think the Exhibition was one which cannot fail to carry out 
and encourage the desire and aim which the Royal Agricultural Society 
have in view for the improvement of this class of horse. 
Robert H. Bokeowes. 
Alfred Ashwokth. 
Cattle. 
Report of the Judges of Shorthorns. 
[Classes 60 to 57.] 
We have great pleasure in reporting that the classes for male shorthorns 
were well filled, and showed a high average of merit. 
The Bulls calved in 1887 (Class 53) formed an unusually numerous class, 
and we are glad to say that in our opinion the animals show evidence of 
more robust constitution than has for some time been' observable at former 
Shows. Bulls of practical merit were numerous, and there are many animals 
likely to improve the stock of the country. 
We were struck by the unusual quality of the Cows, and we consider the 
three Prize winners to be magnificent types of shorthorns. The younger 
classes of Heifers were large, and furnished the champion female shorthorn 
(Mr. R. Thompson's Belle Madeline) as well as the Reserve. It will be 
satisfactory to the Shorthorn Society, which is the donor of the champion 
prizes, to know that the winners, particularly the old bull, were animals 
well worthy of the distinction. 
As a whole, the show of shorthorns at Nottingham alfords a most satis- 
factory indication of the improvement which is being efiected in this leading 
breed. 
Bective. 
J. W. Cruickshank. 
Jas. How. 
Report of the Judges of Hereford Cattle. 
[Classes 58 to G6.] 
Class 58. Aged Bulls. — A remarkably good class, headed by Mr. H. W. 
Taylor's well-known Maidstone, closely pressed by Lord Coventry's Bare 
Sovereign, both bulls possessing extraordinary substance, but having a slightly 
