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a very creditable show ; but tlien the other breeds were not all 
Polls at Cardiff. Mr. Warren Evans's " Hereford family," bull, 
cow, and offspring, Avere " praiseworthy ;" and over the dairy cattle 
exhibited in pairs the Judges offered no comment whatever to the 
awards which put Shorthorns first, Herefords second, Shorthorns 
third, and Ayrshires fourth. Any such reticence is the more to be 
regretted as this is a class, of all others, over which some explana- 
tions of the principles upon which the decisions were made would 
be useful as a lesson hereafter. If, as we read it here, highly- 
bred Shorthorns and Herefords are really better dairy cattle than 
Ayrshires, of course an important point is gained, as we so 
obtain the best beef and the most milk from the same animal — 
an object, the attainment of which so far has been very strongly 
disputed. Writing of Wolverhampton last year, Mr. Jacob 
Wilson said, "The class for dairy cattle has always appeared to 
me one of very questionable utility," as the judges at that Meeting 
clearly considered it a very difficult class to dispose of A 
couple of ragged Aldemeys or common Yorkshires would make 
no show in the ring against a pair of comely, thriving Short- 
horns, or when put side by side with Ivington Rose and 
Duchess of Bedford ; and if the class be continued it should 
be under more definite arrangements and instructions. 
In the dairy cattle " proper " there was but a moderate entry 
of Jerseys, more particularly of Island-bred stock ; and I should 
be inclined to account for this in some degree from the home- 
breeders having of late "sold out" some of their best animals 
at long prices. America has been an especially good customer, 
and Mr. Le Cornu,. a well-known judge in these classes at our 
Meetings, has recently sold a two-vear-old heifer for 100 guineas, 
the highest price ever realized in Jersey, although I have seen 
it equalled here. There could, indeed, be no greater contrast 
than that between the small delicate natives and Lord Chesham's 
great gaunt heifers, going back, 1 believe, to Mr. Dauncey's 
stock. The Judges endeavoured to hit a happy medium between 
the two ; but it would have been well to have had their opinion 
as to the experiment of growing Jerseys to such a scale as is 
now occasionally seen. Moreover, there are indications of the 
Jerseys being overdone for show, and a Jersey heifer going fast 
to beef should surely be something of an anomaly. The Guern- 
seys were more satisfactory ; of finer quality, and more dairy 
character than those sent over but a few vears since ; as one of 
these yellow and white heifers looked more like a milker than 
anything on the ground. Subjoined is the Official Report on 
the Channel Island classes : — 
There was an increase in the numher of entries in these breeds of cattle as 
compared with the two former years, but, owing to the prevalence of the Foot- 
