664 Report on the Exhibition of Live- Stock at Shrewsbury, 1884. 
In Class 104 the individual animals which stood out strikingly the best 
and richest were Nos. 867 and 863. 
Class 105 was a selection of very useful buUs. 
In Class 106 we have had much diflBculty in selecting the prize animals, 
many being individually good. 
In Class 107 the number was not large, but the three prize animals were 
also individually very good. 
Class 108 was very scantily represented, and we should have liked a 
stronger competition in this class, having to award three prizes between six 
animals. 
In Class 109 there were 19 entries, and only two prizes offered. No. 918 is 
so good a heifer, we strongly recommend that a third prize should be given her. 
In Class 110 we also recommend that a third prize should also be given to 
No. 948, being a very promising heifer. 
Butter qualities. — It appears to us that often more attention is given to 
symmetry than to butter-yielding quality. Now this ought not to be. 
Symmetry is of course valuable to the eye, but there it ends. As the 
Jersey characteristic is not meat, but butter, symmetry has so much less 
value, and the marks of high yield in the pail are to be preferred, and should 
take a higher place than symmetry alone. 
It is with great diffidence that we take the opportunity of making these few 
remarks ; but the strong conviction we have formed from our experience of 
Jersey Cattle, and our anxiety to advocate the best interests of Jersey 
breeders everywhere, must be our excuse. 
P. J. Brideaux. 
Charles F. Doret. 
Charles A. Barnes. 
SHEEP. 
In the Classes of Sheep the breeds happen to be placed in the 
Catalogue, and grouped for judging, in the same consecutive 
order ; so that departure from the order of the Catalogue, for the 
purpose of giving at once the whole of any one judicial Report, 
is not necessary. The order of the Catalogue, therefore, is fol- 
lowed, and when two or more breeds come within one judicial 
Report, that Report is appended to the notes upon the last of 
the breeds noticed in it. 
The strength of the Shropshire Classes, in both quality and 
numbers, for many years, prepared every one for a grand display 
at the head-quarters of the breed. Expectation was not disap- 
pointed. The Sheep Classes in general were good ; but the 
Shropshires, represented by a great number of sheep of first-rate 
excellence, with scarcely a weed among them, composed more 
than one-half the entire show of sheep. The total number of 
entries in the Classes of Sheep was 486 : the Shropshire entries 
alone numbered 247 ; all other breeds together, 239. 
As the inspection of shearing precedes the judging, and the 
disqualifications (only three) come under notice in the course of 
this Report, the Reports of the Inspectors may be conveniently 
introduced here. 
