676 Report on the Exhibition of Live- Stock at Slcrewshury, 1884. 
Breeding Sows of the same litter, 5 entries. The first prize in 
the first class was awarded to Mr. Joseph Ashworth's " York- 
shireman ;" the pig that had the reserved number in the same 
class at York ; and a son of the same boar, belonging to the same 
exhibitor, was first in the second class this year. Major Piatt's, 
Mr. P. Ashcroft's, and Messrs. Nuttall's breeding sows, as 
winners, scarcely give their class a very high character, although 
fairly useful-looking. Messrs. J. and F. Howard's Pen of Young 
Sows, first in the next Class, were pretty well up to the usual 
quality of the Britannia Farms herd, although their older sow 
was considered a shade below the Large Breed Standard — a fault 
not often found in pigs from that source. 
Middle White Breed. 
Older Boars, 5 entries ; Younger, 6 ; Breeding Sows, 13 ; and 
Pens of Three, 5 entries ; made the show of Middle Breed White 
Pigs. Beyond Mr. P. Ascroft's older boar and Mr. Walker Jones's 
" Dynamite," in the same class, there was little to notice in the 
male classes, excepting the name of Major Piatt's boar " Jenny," 
in connection with that of his sow, " Sol," in a previous class 
(these entries were from Wales), and a big boar which got into 
a Middle Class by some error of description. The Younger Boar 
Class was wretchedly poor ; two-thirds of the pens were empty, 
and the other third not very creditably occupied. The Breed- 
ing Sows were a very fair lot, some good, so far as the Showyard 
model pig is concerned ; and as that model is recognised, and 
all Judges are expected to keep the approved form in the mind's 
eye during the process of judging, no objection to the awards 
at Shrewsbury can be entertained. 
Small White Breed. 
A Class of Older Boars of considerable merit numbered 8 
entries ; Younger Boars, 14 entries ;• Breeding Sows, a good class, 
17 entries ; and Pens of Three, in which a prize was awarded 
to the pen from the Prince Consort's Shaw Farm, 8 entries. 
The well-known Tortworth strain was represented by both the 
first-prize boars and the reserve boar in the Younger Class, and 
the Coleshill strain by the first-prize breeding sow and the 
first-prize Pen of three Sow Pigs. 
Report of the Judges of Pigs of the Wliitc Breed. 
In Class 143 we found three pigs absent, and the first-prize jiig was the 
only one fit for competition. 
Class 144. — A very moderate class, and short of entries. 
^ lu Class 145, Ko. 14U9_wa3 considered by us more fit fur the Middle Breed 
