636 Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stoch at Shrewsbury, 1884'- 
Lindsay's excellent distributed herd, has the qualities of a veryr 
useful Shorthorn sire. 
Class 50, Bulls calved in 1882, contained seventeen entries^, 
but two of the animals were absent. The Judges did not con- 
sider that the fifteen which came into the ring constituted a 
strong class, yet they distributed three prizes, a reserve and 
high commendation, and four commendations, among the com- 
peting animals ; and eight animals worthy of special commenda- 
tion, without the seven unnoticed, should not be a contemptible 
class. The reserved bull had been the winner of the cup at the 
Royal Dublin Spring Show, where competition is exceedingly 
strong, and certainly came before the Judges at Shrewsbury in 
capital form and condition, not over-fed, but level and thick- 
fleshed. In this attempt to do mere justice to a good bull, lest 
his fourth place in " not at all a strong class " might be sup- 
posed to imply less merit than '• Tel-el-Kebir " possesses, no 
dissent from the judicial decision is intended. The right of 
place of Mr. Green's " Prince of Donyland," Mr. Coomer's " Sir 
StaflTord," and the Duke of Northumberland's " Polar Star," is 
not questioned ; and although the commendations were more in 
number than a weak class usually receives, no one could have 
maintained objection against the award if the judges had extended 
their notice to the Duke of Devonshire's level and not over-fed 
" Duke of Oxford 62nd," and Mr. Duncombe's not thoroughly 
handsome but deep-bodied and solid-fleshed young stock-bull, 
" Sir Isaac Newton," a son of " Sir Arthur Ingram," " Hoving- 
ham's" sire. 
The first - winner in a capital Class of Yearling Bulls,. 
Mr. Handley's " Royal Ingram," is also a son of " Sir Arthur 
Ingram." Another Cornish bull, Mr. Trethewy's " Star of 
Cornwall," by " Star of Britain," bred by Mr. Talbot-Crosbie,. 
took the second place ; and the third was filled by Mr. Pugh's 
" Bright Andrew," of Mr. W. Torr's " Bright " tribe, directly 
descended from Mr. R. Booth's "Anna," the cow that sixty 
years ago walked from Studley, near Ripon, to Manchester, took 
the first prize there, walked home again, and within a fortnight 
gave birth to the bull "Aaron," not to the heifer, "Young. 
Anna," as stated in the late Mr. Carr's admirable work on the 
Booth herds, unless history is quite at fault about the date of 
the Show, 1824. 
Opinions were freely interchanged upon the usefulness, or 
the contrary, of Class 52, in which Bulls of Any Age, each with 
two, three, or four of his offspring belonging to the same owner, 
might compete for the prizes of 50/., 30/., and 20/., offered by the 
Shorthorn Society. Four groups were entered for competition,. 
