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as tested bj their numerical force, little more than curiosities. 
At Gloucester, however, a vain attempt was made to check the 
over-feeding of show stock, and since then some more direct 
encouragement has been offered for another description of 
animal product. The Society now goes, not merely for beef, 
but for milk, and to Mr. Milward's three recognized breeds of 
1853 we must now add and maintain a fourth. There was not, 
perhaps, a great show of these animals at Cardiff, but there is 
none more interesting or useful in its degree than that of Channel 
Island cattle, and, like the horse show, this section has now, too, 
been properly cultivated and become an established success. 
And of the Royal Society's horse show of twenty years since, 
let so good an authority on the subject as Mr. Milward speak 
to its merits: — "Although many were exhibited, it cannot be 
stated that the show was a good one. There were, it is true, 
several fine specimens of the Suffolk breed, but the judges 
expressed great dissatisfaction at the ordinary show of roadster 
stallions ; and the exhibition of Welsh ponies will not, it is 
thought, induce the Society to offer similar prizes in future." In 
fact, at that period, and for some years subsequently, a horse 
show under the countenance of the Royal Agricultural Society 
was despaired of; and at Gloucester there were no classes 
beyond those just mentioned — for cart-horses, one premium for a 
trotter, and a few special offers for ponies that a "horse" man 
like Mr. Milward would seem to imply should never be repeated. 
But at Cardiff, Mr. Milward was himself an exhibitor of ponies^ 
as there were classes for thorough-bred horses, hunters of all 
ages, cobs, galloways, and brood mares ; so greatly has this part 
of the proceedings developed since the first Royal 100/. was 
offered at Leeds in 1861. Nothing, however, could have been 
more legitimate than this very gratifying success ; but the lofty 
jumping and tumbling is not countenanced, nor is the tedious, 
business of judges riding the horses encouraged by the stewards. 
A horse-show of any kind will always be an attraction to an 
Englishman without bushed hurdles and brimming dykes. What 
with separate classes for Shires, Clydesdales and Suffolks, the 
agricultural horses have progressed as favourably, with the ex- 
ception, at least at Cardiff, of the Eastern Counties chestnuts. At 
Gloucester " there were several fine specimens of the Suffolk 
breed ;" at Cardiff there were very few specimens of the Suffolk 
breed, good or bad, and not half-a-dozen in all. 
In the twenty years there has been no greater enterprise evinced, 
that is to say, as demonstrated by the prize-list of the Society, 
than in the breeding of sheep. At Gloucester the several dis- 
tinctions were thus drawn — Leicesters ; Southdowns or other Short- 
wools ; Long-wools, not Leicesters ; with special prizes for Shrop- 
shires or other grey and black-faced Short-wools. Thus, there 
