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class than the larger. No. 1478 was disqualified, owing to the pigs exhibiting 
with her being over age. 
Ill Class 147 we found No. 1490 more fit to be exhibited in the Large 
Class than in the Middle. 
In Class 148 four pens were empty, and neither of the pigs were good ; 
and the Judges were long before they concluded to award a second prize. 
In Class 149 four pens were empty, and we can commend the whole class 
with the exception of one pig. 
Class 151 was an average class. 
In Class 152 three pens were vacant. 
In Class 153 four pens were vacant, and we can generally commend the 
whole class with the exception of two pigs, viz. Nos. 1552 and 1553, which 
we admire, but consider these two pigs are entered in the wrong class. 
William E. W. Beswick-Eoyds. 
Joseph Smith. 
Josh. Culshaw. 
Small Black Breed. 
The excellent Report of the Judges, as already intimated, 
deals so fully with these classes, that the following statement of 
numbers may be considered sufficient introduction : — Boars of 
1881-2, 5 entries ; Boars of 1883, 4 entries ; Breeding Sows, 
4 entries ; and Pens of three Breeding Sow Pigs, 3. 
Berkshire. 
Boars of 1881-2, 8 entries ; Boais of 1883, 19 entries ; Breed- 
ing Sows, 31 entries; Pens of three Young Sows, 11 entries. 
Other Distinct Breeds. 
Boar of 1881—2, 2 entries ; Boars of 1883, 5 entries ; Breeding ' 
Sows, 6 entries ; and Pens of Three, 3 entries. A remark 
of the Judges suggests the expression of a hope that before the 
Tamworth pig is excluded from the Shows of the Royal Agri- 
cultural Society of England, he may have a fair test in rearing 
and feeding, and then in ham and bacon curing, and in house- 
hold use, side by side with some of the model pigs of the 
recognised Showyard type. 
Bejport of the Judges of Small Black Pigs, BerhsMre and any oth^r 
Distinct Breeds. 
The Small Blacks were representatives of the homesteads of the Duke of 
Hamilton, Mr. J. A. Smith, Major Dods, and Mr. Nortliey. The latter had one 
entry, and although the animal — a sow farrowed in 1882 — was bred in 
Devonshire, the pedigree as given in the Catalogue reads as of Suffolk 
origin. The same may be said of Major Dod's (No. 1365), who dates from 
Great Yarmouth. The other two exhibitors are from Suflblk, and the pigs 
shown by them are the lineal descendants of the original "Black Diamond" 
