634 Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Shreicshury, 1884. 
make a first-rate display of its merits. Read in the full recol- 
lection of the female Shorthorn classes, and of a few specimens 
prominent in the male classes, the Report of the Judges strikes 
one as unnecessarily chilly ; but, according to the high standard 
evidently taken by the Judges, it is perfectly correct. We have 
seen better shows of Shorthorns, much better shows of bulls. 
In order to appear on the ground at all, the Shorthorn had to 
pass into Hereford territory ; and although it claims an established 
footing in Shropshire, and even in Herefordshire itself, while 
the Principality is often victoriously represented in the Short- 
horn classes ot the national Shows, the number of Hereford herds 
crowding in the foreground made the Shorthorn a comparatively 
outside breed, and the distance from districts heavily stocked 
with Shorthorns unquestionably affected the entries of the breed. 
There was really no reason for despondency on the part of Short- 
horn breeders and their well-wishers, but, on the contrary, very 
great reason for them to take to themselves encouragement and 
congratulation from so good an exhibition so near the head- 
quarters of their strongest rivals. 
The Class of Older Bulls bears an unfavourable contrast to 
the corresponding class in 1845, as regards the number of 
entries, 20 on the earlier occasion, and only one-fourth of that 
number now ; but the Shorthorn Bulls altogether number now 
49 entries of single animals, and 4 of sires with their progeny, 
against 40 single entries in 1845. The female Shorthorns 
number 55 entries, including 7 pairs of heifers and 2 entries 
of cows and offspring, besides the females exhibited in the 
Dairy Classes and as the progeny of bulls exhibited, together 
with their stock. The female Shorthorns in 1845 numbered 
29 in the regular class, and 3 heifer calves, with or without 
pedigree, were exhibited as Shorthorns in Extra Stock. If the 
Shorthorns have not increased in number so much as some other 
breeds, the fact that they had at that time a Herd-book of 
twenty-three years' standing, while no other breed had a Herd- 
book, and that they were then, as now, established in nearly 
all parts of the kingdom, must be borne in mind. Among the 
exhibitors of Shorthorns at Shrewsbury in 1845 were many 
whose names are now venerated as historical. The name of 
Mr. H. W. Beauford is still associated with the breeding 
of high-class Shorthorns. Among Mr. Beauford's co-exhibitors 
were Lord Hill ; Mr. Banks-Stanhope, whose " Cramer," bred 
by Mr. Parkinson, of Leyfields, and " Ladythorn," bred by Mr. 
John Booth, of Killerby, were the first winners in their re- 
spective classes ; Mr. Topham, of Keal, in the same county, 
Lincoln, with Mr. Lister Maw, whose " Hecatomb" had beaten 
Mr. Bates's " Duke of Northumberland ; " Mr. H. E. Strick- 
