Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Shrewsbury, 1884. 673 
Hampshire Downs. 
The only fairly strong class in point of number was weakened 
by the absence of nearly half of the number entered. The Two- 
Shear Rams, 5 entries, were all in their places ; but the Shearlings, 
11 entries, mustered only six in the pens: of five entries of 
Pens of Ewes, one had been cancelled, and the remaining four 
appeared before the Judges. Here, again, the females were 
first in merit; but what artistic colouring! For two of the 
pens the blush-rose, and for one pen the yellow marigold, might 
have been the pattern tint. It is very pretty, certainly, but what 
does it mean ? Upon the same principle of improvement upon 
nature, why should not the black coats of the Welsh cattle be 
powdered blue, or the Shorthorns appear in pea-green ? The 
horses generally are too sleek for similar appliances, but they 
might receive a coat of varnish. Mr. H. Lambert's pen of five 
splendid yellow ewes was fairly first in the prize list, the beauti- 
ful pink ewes of Mr. H. Spackman and Mr. F. R. Moore taking 
respectively, and deservedly, the second and third places. Mr. 
F. P. Brown, whose ewes were not quite in the same bloom, 
although intrinsically good, filled the remaining pen. Mr. 
F. R. Moore's rams in both classes were sheep of grand sub- 
stance and quality ; his two-shear rams were uncommonly heavy- 
fleshed, great in the neck, over the loins, in the legs of mutton 
and connecting twist, with a thick layer under the breast and 
floor of the chest. Mr. Read's sheep made good second winners 
in both Classes of Rams. 
Beport of the Judges of Southdown and Hampshire Sheep. 
The Soiifhdoivn classes were well filled, most of the principal flocks being 
represented. 
Class 132. — Two-shear Bams were very good, and Class 133, of Shearlings, 
numberiDg 32 entries, were especially good ; and Class 134 — Shearling 
Ewes — were remarkably fine without exception. 
The Hampshire Doivns were not very fully represented, but some fine 
specimens of the breed were shown, especially in Class 137. The whole of 
the pens of ewes in this class were of considerable merit, and the prize-winners 
were exceptionally good. 
Richard Eelfe Vebrall. 
Joseph Carpenter. 
Mountain Breeds. 
It is probably quite impossible for the Royal Agricultural 
Society to listen to the applications for separate classes which 
come from so many quarters. Here we have a miscellaneous 
collection of Exmoor, Scotch, Welsh, Clun Forest, and Lonk 
Sheep ; yet if we look at the numbers of each, how could separate 
