640 Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Shreicshury, 1884. 
whether Islington or Bingley Hall is not the right place for an 
animal in her condition. She has bred one calf, unfortunately 
dead, and the hope may be expressed that she can yet breed 
living calves, of healthy constitution, to perpetuate her own 
merits. ^Ir. Ackers has the credit of breeding Mr. Hutchin- 
son's second winner, and the reserve belongs to a grand- 
daughter of the Rev. R. B. Kennard's celebrated winner, 
" Queen Mary." 
Mr. George Ashburner's " Lome " family, good, massive, 
useful Shorthorns, not quite of " the caste of Vere de Vere," 
took without rivalry the honours of Class 55. In Class 56, 
Heifers calved in 1882, fifteen entries, only one, from illness, 
absent, Mr. Wakefield's "Augusta 4th," an exceedingly hand- 
some heifer, first in her class at York, again took first honours. 
She is a red and white, with a beautiful head, quite the Short- 
horn old style, and flat, waxy-yellow horns, very ornamental ; 
in merit, from a practical point of view (if a good head does not 
count, as it should count, among the recommendations of an 
animal to practical-minded men), she is also great, having a 
symmetrical and well-grown frame, amply covered with evenly- 
laid flesh. Mr. Pugh's " Zoe 2nd," a flecked roan, by " Sir 
Charles," his bull in the Sire and Offspring Class, took the 
second, Mr. Fox's " Red Rose of the Tees 3rd," a good red and 
white heifer, descended from the " Red Rose " tribe of Mr. Bates 
and Mr. Robert Colling, through the hands of Messrs. Renick 
in America, the third prize, and the reserved number belonged 
to Mr. Brierley's " Empress 18th," a really good heifer, rich in 
flesh and hair, roan, with a good head of the quiet sort. Sir 
H. Hussev Vivian's " Pride of Glamorgan," of the " Stratton " 
strain of blood ; Mr. Chalk's " Sybil," by " Duke Oneida," from 
a dam of the prize-winning " Telemachus " strain ; Lord Trede- 
gar's pretty grey-roan, " Marigold 15th," and Mr. Brierley's 
" Rosedale Duchess," a daughter of Mr. Sharp's York third- 
prize cow, were also heifers of distinguished merit in this 
class. 
Heifers calved in 1883 numbered sixteen entries, thirteen 
in the ring, and the competition was good, that is to say, a 
sufficient number of animals had sufficient merit to make the 
competition real and the result interesting. Five commendatory 
notices were given, in addition to the three prizes and the 
place of reserve, with its accompanying high commendation. 
Mrs. Mcintosh exhibited the first winner, "Havering INon- 
pareil 2nd," a full red-roan, of great growth and length, with a 
strong and well-covered back. A certain especial interest 
attaches to the awards. The first-prize heifer is a grand- 
daughter of the two distinguished winners at the Society's 
