Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Shrewsbury, 1884. 665 
Beports of the Inspectors of Shearing. 
Eeport No. 1. 
After carefully examining the shearing of sheep in this Yard, we find the 
sheep generally in accordance with the rules of the Society. 
We do, however, find in Class 113, No. 971, and in Class 126, No. 1179, 
and also No. 1180 in same class, not in accordance with the rules as laid 
down for our guidance in examination, and we recommend the disqualification 
of the same. 
Eeport No. 2. 
We, your Inspectors of Sheep Shearing, heg to state in this our Report of 
the Shrewsbury Meeting that, as a whole, we did find the sheep well and 
fairly shorn. In our former Report on the ground we did recommend the 
disqualification of three sheep, which was acted on by your Council, and we 
now in our Report confirm the same. We admit that we have met with 
much more extreme and worse cases in the Showyard ; but once allow the 
matter again to get hold, and we will have the shearing as false as in former 
years. We feel ourselves warranted in giving a good account of the shearing 
of last season, as in no year in which we have visited the Showyard with 
instructions to correct this evil, have we found greater care and attention 
given to the shearing of sheep. 
The Mountain Sheep did not come under examination. May we be allowed 
to say that the Judges were placed in a most difficult position on account of 
so many difierent classes of sheep being shown for the same Prize. Some of 
those sheep shorn well, and others of them shown with almost a year's wool 
on their backs. We congratulate the Council in having corrected so great an 
evil in a few years. Showing sheep in their true and natural form in the 
Showyard is of the very greatest importance. 
William Jobson ) Inspectors of 
J. B. Workman f Shearing. 
Leicesteks. 
Three classes comprised all the Leicesters : Two-shear Rams, 
7 entries, one absent, and one disqualified by the Inspectors of 
Shearing; Shearling Rams, 17 entries, two absent; and Pens 
of five Shearling Ewes, 5 entries, all shown. Competition was 
confined to the representatives of six flocks, the entries ave- 
raging nearly 5 to each exhibitor. Messrs. Turner, Hutchinson, 
and Green exhibited in the Ram Classes only ; Mrs. Perry 
Herrick and Messrs. Jordan and Harrison in the Shearling 
Ram and Ewe Classes. The largest exhibitor was Mr. Turner 
(Thorplands), who showed 3 two-shear and 4 shearling rams ; 
Mr. T. H. Hutchinson and Mr. J. B. Green had each 2 entries 
of two-shear and 3 of shearling rams ; Mrs. Perry Herrick and 
Mr. Jordan (Eastburn) each 2 of shearling rams ; and Mr. 
Harrison (Underpark) 3 of shearling rams and 2 of ewes. The 
Catterick entries, showing the size and character which dis- 
tinguish Mr. Hutchinson's flock, supplied the first and second 
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