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a very promising one, with good hair and quality, but deficient in her under 
points. She is, however, young, and will doubtless greatly improve. Eescrve 
number and Highly Commended, No. 548, Queen of the Teme : a good heifer, 
but not equal in symmetry to the prize heifers. Kos. 55G and 557 were both 
highly commended. Several in this class were backward in condition, and 
consequently showed to disadvantage. 
The Judges declare the Devons " in size, symmetry, and 
quality, to be closely approaching perfection;" but it is to be 
regretted that more of the breed were not shown. In fact but 
for Mr. Davy from Devonshire, Mr. Farthing from Somerset- 
shire, and Mr. J. A. Smith from Dorsetshire, amongst whom all 
the first prizes were distributed, there would be no show of 
Devons. The Official Report is as brief as the entry. Mr. 
Davy's best bull in the all-aged class is written of "great 
merit ; " Mr. Farthing's Master Harry, " very meritorious, 
and a particularly good animal," but his colour, a tawny or 
dirty-orange, is against him ; and at Dorchester Master Harry 
was passed by with a mere commendation. Over the yearlings 
the two Judges could not agree, and, on an umpire being called 
in, the quality of the Flitton told in his favour, although it is 
doubtful whether he can ever grow up or furnish into as deep 
and square a bull as the other ; and Mr. Davy's best bull-calf, 
Duke Flitton 9th, has been shipped by Mr. Cochrane for Canada. 
The cows were declared to be "a particularly good class,". of 
three only ; and the heifers in-milk, running to but four or five, 
were generally commended as "a highly praiseworthy class;" 
while the yearling heifers were highl}- commended. The first 
prizes, however, in both these classes, were overdone in the way 
of preparation, and the yearling more particularly looks as if she 
could never "keep her figure." Indeed, so neat an animal as 
your true Devon can hardly be of perfect syrrmetry, with such 
gaudy patchy excrescences as some of the young stock were deve- 
loping at Cardiff. A thorough-bred Devon should be, at his or 
her best, one of the truest and handsomest animals in creation. 
Considering how well the Devon steers show at Christmas, and 
how closely they have of late contested for the champion prizes 
of Islington and Birmingham, it is noticeable, if not quite ex- 
plicable, how poor a front they offer at the summer shows of 
breeding stock. 
The Devon Judges also undertook the other established breeds, 
reversing some previous awards over the Norfolk Polls in the 
bull-class, where there was "no animal good enough to reserve ;" 
and reporting the cow-class with a Red Poll first, and a Longhorn 
second, to be "very badly represented;" while the heifers, with 
Lord Sondes' two Norfolks at the head of it, were "an indifferent 
class," although at Lynn the Polls were considered to have made 
