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to hear that some of the most valuable sires were retained at 
very remunerative prices to perpetuate the breed in this 
country." 
Of two-shear rams there were 26 entries present. Mr. 
George Lewis's first-prize ram is a typical animal of the breed, 
with capital fore-quarters and good masculine head. Mr. A. S. 
Berry's second-prize ram, "though hardly so pleasing in cha- 
racter, is a wonderfully sti-aight good sheep with capital coat 
and skin." The third-prize sheep, exhibited by Mrs. Barrs, is 
" of grand scale, with good lean flesh." 
The shearling rams made up an extraordinary entry of nearly 
100 animals, many of them possessing exceptional quality. Mr, 
W. F. Inge's first-prize ram was a sheep of capital form and 
character, standing square on his legs, " though we could have 
wished him to have moved with greater freedom." Messrs. 
Bradburne's second-prize ram, despite his being of nice character 
and well on his legs, was " hardly so pleasing in form or firm in 
his coat." The third prize went to a sheep of very much the 
same type, and the strength of the whole class is shown in the 
circumstance that as many as 23 animals were selected for 
nominal honours. 
Of ram lambs 17 pens were filled, and they made a highly 
creditable show. Mr. Richard Brown's first-prize pen "was of 
very good quality and size, and free from any defects in the 
way of stubs or grey ears, &c." The second-prize and reserved 
pens were compact lambs of beautiful quality. 
The class for shearling ewes produced some splendid speci- 
mens of the Shropshire breed, and on account of their uniformity 
of character some difliculty was experienced in adjudicating. 
After a close contest th'e first prize was awarded to Mrs. 
Barrs for a pen of great size and evenness. Mr. Inge's second- 
prize pen " was not on quite so large a scale, but of beautiful 
quality." 
Southdowns. — There were 81 pens entered at Doncaster, 
against 75 at Plymouth. East Anglian breeders took all the 
four first prizes and an equal number of others, only three of 
the eleven prizes awarded going to Sussex flocks. 
The dozen entries of two-shear rams did not make up 
a strong class, though the prize animals were good. The first 
prize went to the Prince of V/ales for "a remarkably true-made 
sheep of excellent quality." Mr. Colman's second-prize ram 
was " nearly of equal merit," and the Duke of Richmond and 
Gordon's third-prize sheep " true to Southdown type." One of 
the Judges (Mr. Fulcher) suggests the abolition of classes for 
two-shear sheep, and says " there can be little doubt that to 
