658 Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Shrewsbury, 1884. 
to one for animals of the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th years, the 
2nd year forming the limits of an additional class, and the 
Yearling Bulls stand the same as before. From the heading ot 
the first class for females, the words " or heifer " are omitted, and 
the ages allowed range from an unlimited " previously to," to 
any time within, the fourth year before the year of exhi- 
bition. A class for Cows or Heifers of the third year is thus 
got out of the old class ; the class of Heifers of the second year 
remains as before, and a new class for Heifers of last year is 
introduced. 
Some very good and useful-looking bulls, level and thick- 
fleshed, of rich colour, with the style which only carefully-bred 
animals can possess, competed in the three classes. The York 
first-winner, here No. 824, was simply passed over, affording 
the city critics an irresistible opportunity of descanting upon 
judicial liability to egregious mistake ; but if townsmen who 
come to Shows to put country Judges right could suspect the 
meaning of an enlargement upon the left side of the face, which 
had no duplicate on the right side, they might hesitate to 
express themselves so freely as they do. Next to Mr. Taylor's 
" Passion," the York reserve, Mr. R. H. Mason's " Starston 
Duke " (also bred by Mr. Taylor) takes rank on the prize-list. 
The latter, a deep-sided, thick bull, with heavy rounded thighs, 
is closely related to the first-winner, the sire of both being the 
same, and the dam of " Passion " the grand-dam of " Starston 
Duke." Mr. Tyssen-Amhurst's " Cortes," second at Reading 
and commended at York, has the reserve and a high commen- 
dation. 
Mr. Lofft's intensely deep-red " Broadhead," Mr. Haggard's 
" Sand Boy," who maintains his York position as second, and 
Lord Hastings' " Rupert," are the noticeable bulls in the second 
class ; but the bull of the really highest style and character, 
the beau-ideal of a thorough-bred animal, is Air. R. H. Mason's 
" Napoleon," whose merit (although particulars of which the 
butcher can take no cognizance go to make a most attractive 
appearance) consists mainly in properties which the most prac- 
tical men can appreciate. There is a frame of ample size, not 
over-grown, truly moulded to the most perfect proportion of 
each part to the whole ; straight limbs are set in the right 
places, and the joints are most beautifully turned, the hocks 
are especially straight and neat ; and the short tapering of the 
ends of the massive thighs to the bocks, with flesh as far as flesh 
can go, and then no lumber, but a nice clean joint, make quite 
a pattern of refined form. The touch discovers a rich layer of 
lean-flesh spread everywhere evenly, and the hair is of the 
richest red, deep in colour, but not blackened. The head is gay 
