Report on the Exhibition of Live-Sfock at Shrewshurij, 1884. 649 
second-winners. The brothers Messrs. Hall, of Ashton and 
Holme Lacey, are both bringing out, very creditably indeed, 
the descendants of the old Ashton herd, bred on the farm for 
more than a century, and divided between them when their 
father retired from business. They have used, and are now 
using, some excellent bulls, with such results as were seen in 
various classes at Shrewsbury. 
Great size for her age, and that robust and vigorous growth 
which promises great size at maturity, yet without uneven 
development anywhere ; plenty of flesh, but so evenly distributed 
that no one point is remarkable ; and, for any time of the year, 
especially for July, an extraordinary coat of thick, wavy hair, of 
the rich red colour that pleases the American visitor, are the 
most noticeable characteristics of Mr. A. E. Hughes's " Sun- 
flower," the first-prize two-year-old heifer. Mr. Rees Keene's 
really pretty heifer, " Jeffrey 8th, " the second winner, not on so 
large a scale, but whose weight would exceed that of many a 
bigger-looking animal, is a good specimen of the stock of his 
" Reward," a bull of much character, first in his class at Derb}' 
in 1881. The selection for third prize was a good and bold 
one, doing justice to merit in the rough. Mr. Powell's " Vinca'* 
does not stand an example of the results of high education, and 
it was contrary to custom that great accomplishments in refined 
corpulence were passed by in favour of her honest worth. The 
award took many outsiders, and perhaps some exhibitors, by 
surprise. 
The excellence of stock of " Franklin " (own brother to " Con- 
queror," purchased for the herd of Her Majesty the Queen from 
his breeder, the late Mr. Carwardine), has been already illus- 
trated in Mr. Taylor's " Rosette," in Class 66. In Class 68. 
Heifers of 1883, Mr. Taylor exhibited another supremely beau- 
tiful specimen of the same sire's stock, " Vanity 7th," the first- 
winner. The style and quality of these heifers would seem to 
mark " Lord Wilton's " son, " Franklin," as a sire whose influ- 
ence is perhaps not less powerful for good than that of " Lord 
Wilton " himself. The stock of the Earl of Coventry's bull, 
*' Fisherman," represented in this class by the second winner, 
must be regarded as supplying ample evidence of that sire's value 
also ; not, possibly, like " Horace," for example, whose salient 
characteristics are so strongly impressed upon his offspring that 
they reappear in successive generations, but as a bull that may 
be safely trusted to stand at the head of a herd of good and 
judiciously assorted cows. Mr. Arkwright's third winner, " Pearl 
5th," a daughter of " Conjuror," and of " Pearl 3rd," the second- 
prize cow in Class 64, is a remarkably showy yearling, with 
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