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Most of the exhibits we considered were very good specimens of their 
breeds. 
The other Short-ivoolled classes were well represented in quality, though 
not in numbers, there beinE; three entries in each class, each one being of a 
different breed. The Suffolks were superior in both classes, followed with 
good exhibits of Ryelands and Dorset-Horned ; latter class exceptionally good. 
T. Williams. 
lloB. Shortreed. 
PIGS. 
The Judges of the Black and other distinct Breeds (excepting 
the recognised White Breeds, which have precedence in the Cata- 
logue) have made so exhaustive a Report upon the classes 
brought under their notice, that little remains to be said ; and 
to this elaborate Report one of the Judges, a highly competent 
authority, has added a note which is in itself an epitomised 
history of the Small Black Breed. The Judges of the White 
Breeds, more briefly, have given an outline of their department 
of the Show. These Reports will be found in their order, each 
at the close of the group of classes to which it refers. 
Eight disqualifications by the Veterinary Inspectors on account 
of the advanced dentition of the pigs entered for competition 
are recorded, and in one other case disqualification was pro- 
nounced on the ground of the state of dentition of young pigs, 
accompanying their mother, showing age beyond eight weeks. 
The following are the Inspector's Reports : — 
Report of the Inspectors of Dentition of Pigs. 
We, as Veterinary Inspectors to the Royal Agricultural Society, have 
examined the pigs entered in Classes 144, 146, 148, 149, 150, 152, 153 154, 
156, 157, 160, 161, 164, and 165, and find that in the pigs No. 1507 in 
Class 149, No. 1537 in Class 152, No. 1551 in Class 153, No. 1569 in 
Class 156, No. 1605 in Class 160, Nos. 1612, 1618, and 1625 in Class 161, the 
state of the dentition does not agree with the age given in the book of 
entries. 
In Class 145, the young pigs with No. 1478 show a state of dentition beyond 
tlie stipulated age of 8 weeks. 
W. DUGUID. 
Besides these disqualifications, one sow (No. 1576) was de- 
clared, disqualified (under Rule 22) in consequence of a protest 
handed to the Steward of Swine, calling attention to the fact 
that the animal had been coloured and oiled, contrary to the 
rules of the Society. 
Large White Beeed. 
Boars farrowed in 1881 and 1882 numbered 6 entries; last 
year's Boars, 7 entries ; Sows, 14 entries j and Pens of three 
