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Tlie Doncaster Meeting. 
the spot to which Prince Charles Edward penetrated with his 
ill-fated army a century and a half ago. 
The influence of locality becomes more emphasised in 
the case of sheep. Such longwools as the Leicester, the 
Cotswolds, and the Lincolns, and such shortwools as the Oxfords, 
Shropshires, Southdowns, HampsJiires, and Suffolks, follow " the 
Royal " wherever it goes. These, at Plymouth, were supple- 
mented by the " Horns " of Somerset and Dorset, the Devon 
Longwools, the South Devons, the Dartmoors, and the Exmoors, 
all of which were absent at Doncaster. In their place, however, 
visitors enjoyed the opportunity of inspecting nearly 150 pens 
variously occupied by Wensleydales,Border Leicesters, Cheviots, 
Black-faced Mountain Sheep, Lonks, and Herdwicks. 
A Retrospective Glaxce. 
It is instructive to glance back at the last Yorkshire Meet- 
ing, held in the city of York eight years previously. On that 
occasion, in both the Shorthorn and the Hereford sections, 
family classes were added. The Red Polled cattle appeai'ed 
under their old name of " Norfolk and Suffolk," whilst the 
Aberdeen Angus cattle were catalogued as Polled Angus or 
Aberdeen. No classes were provided for Guernsey, Kerry, and 
Dexter cattle. Of sheep, the Lonks, the Herdwicks, and the 
Suffolks had no distinctive place in the catalogue, and had to 
seek refuges amongst the " Other Long Wools " or the " Other 
Short Wools," of which there were male and female classes of 
each. In the pig sections, the Tamworths enjoyed no separate 
classification in 1883, but they figured in the prize list for 
" Any Other Breed.' There were no feathered exhibits at York, 
whilst the cheese and butter competitions possessed in a high 
degree the merit of simplicity. There was merely one class for 
each, the former for a half-hundredweight of Yorkshire cheese 
of any make, the latter for six pounds of fresh butter. A 
working daiiy found no place in the programme, and there 
was no provision either for butter-making competitions or for 
horse-shoeing contests. Classes for cider and perry, and for 
jams and preserved fruit, were likewise unprovided eight years 
ago. 
In the Implement Section prizes were this year offered for 
combined portable threshing and finishing machines ; for cream 
separators, both hand and power ; and for mechanical milking 
machines. In 1 883, the only comjietition in this department was 
for the best equipped dairy, suitable for not more than 20 cows. 
This year 94 implements were entered as " new," with the object 
