660 Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Shreioshury, 1884. 
Class 102. — No. 851, first prize, is a very sweet little heifer, lengthy and 
good, with a tendency to patchiness. 
Class 103. — No. 862, first prize, long, low, and straight ; No. 859, second 
prize, nice form, plain at rumps end. 
Thomas Fulchee. 
George Napper. 
Stephen Bailey. 
LoNGHORNS, Welsh and Dairy Cattle. 
The one heading for breeds so distinct as the Welsh and the- 
old Longhorn, and for the miscellaneous cattle in the Dairy 
stock ClasseSj is adopted, as already explained, for the conve- 
nience of placing the unmutilated Report of the Judges at the end 
of this section of the general Report upon the Live-stock ; but 
the remarks upon the different breeds are kept quite separate. 
Longhorns, in the order of the Catalogue, immediately follow 
the Sussex, and precede the Red Polled Cattle. They numbered 
only 2 Bulls of 1878 to 1881, and 3 of 1882 : 7 Cows, calved 
previously to or in 1881, and 2 Heifers of 1882 ; altogether 14 
entries ; all shown, excepting one cow. The one grand speci- 
men of the breed was Mr. Leigh's " Prior of Ashby," a splendid 
four-year-old bull, rightly described as brindle and white, but 
in effect mostly black, with the edges flecked and grizzled ; a bull 
of great scale and character, with quite a picture head, good 
fore- and hind-quarters, a level top, the line gently rising on the 
outline over the chine and shoulder-tops into the arch of the 
neck, and a straight under-line. So ornamental a specimen 
affords a suggestion of Avhat the glories of the breed must have 
been in its day. The only really good class of Longhorns was 
that of Cows, in which the first winner is Mr. W. G. Farmer's 
" May Flower, " own sister to " Gentle," a winner at the Paris 
International Show of 1878. Her sire, " The Blue Knight," is 
by " Earl of Upton 1st " (Mr. Chapman's strain), and her dam, 
" Spring Flower," the first-prize cow at the Liverpool Meeting 
in 1877, by Sir .1. H. Crewe's " Earl of Upton 2nd," a son of 
her paternal grandsire, so that here is a little in-breeding of the 
Upton blood. " May Flower," a brindled seven-years-old cow, 
with well-rounded ribs, is still not so heavy forward as in the 
hind-quarters. Her neck is light, and the fore-end is not great 
in proportion to the depth of side ; she has wide and thickly- 
cushioned hips, heavily-packed quarters from hip to tail, 
lumpy development at the tail-head, and full "twist," or 
packing above the back of the udder. Mr. Richard Hall's 
second winner, " Brindled Nell," only four years old, is a thick, 
good animal from end to end, with great wealth of flesh. Mr. 
Leigh's " Spondon Queen 2nd " had the reserve ; and commenda- 
