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Cattle. 
Not withstand in the frequent gaps caused by the prevalence 
of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease, the competition here was pretty 
generally good, the chief exception being with the Devons, 
where, in many of the classes, the original entries did not 
extend to any numerical force, however excellent the individual 
animals. As usual, the centre of attraction, the great gossipping- 
ground of the day, was by the side of the Shorthorn ring, where, 
no question, the Agricultural Derby of the year is run off in the 
decisions over the all-aged bulls. Unfortunately the "neatest" 
bull of his time. Lord Exeter's Telemachus, was away in 
his box at Burghley, and hence a great deal of collateral interest 
evaporated. Indeed, beyond the Yorkshire- Irish St. Ringgan, 
there w'as no old bull of any particular repute in the class ; and 
almost from the first the race looked to be reduced to a match 
between the two white 3-year-olds. When he first appeared 
this season, the improvement in Lord Irwin was very remark- 
able ; he had thickened and spread into an admirably well- 
covered animal, with his good flesh capitally laid on ; and 
beyond his small head, there was, when in the West of England 
show-ring, scarcely a fault to be found with Mr. Linton's bull, 
unless that he had "been done" a little too well by. And no 
doubt he had, for on meeting at Cardiff one of the Judges — not 
here in office — who assisted in putting Lord Irwin first at 
Dorchester, the same words were on both our lips at the same 
moment: "How he has gone off!" In truth, in the interim, 
the bull had had but little rest, having been out again and again in 
Essex and the North ; and his travels had told, as might natu- 
rally have been expected. Mr. Outhwaite's white, on the con- 
trary, showed out very gay and fresh ; and the decision, though 
much discussed at the time, was confirmed when the two bulls 
met again in the week following at Spalding, as again at the 
Kelso show of the Highland Society, at Malton, at Newcastle-on- 
Tyne, and at Bolton. Last season, however, Lord Irwin beat 
Royal Windsor at the Society's show at Wolverhampton, and also 
at the York Meeting of the Yorkshire Society ; though earlier in 
the year, and in very moderate company, Lord Irwin took no 
prize whatever at Guildford — Mr. Bowly, one of the Judges, with 
whom was Mr. Drewry, one of the Judges at Cardiff, officially 
recording Lord Irwin, in the West of England ' Journal,' as 
" a thick bull with good points, but with a head very deficient 
in character." At Wolverhampton, the Judges described Lord 
Irwin as "of excellent quality and character, and a massive, 
well-fleshed animal of great growth and much promise ;" while 
thev spoke to Royal Windsor as "of good quality and great 
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