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an argument, wliere the sheep looked far more like " ornament 
than use." The veterinary inspector, Mr. Brown, on being ap- 
pealed to, certainly declared against one sheep as " useless for 
breeding purposes," and this was the four-year-old Lincoln ; the 
Judges' report running thus : — 
Class 84. The shearling rams are not a good class. 
Class 85. This we think a very good class, and generally commend it. 
I Professor Brown's opinion of the sheep Xo. 870 was that he was useless for 
I breeding purposes. 
Class 8G. We are of opinion that this class, though having but few entries, 
, is one of very high character, the ewes taking the first prize being excep- 
tionally good. 
It is very clear that any reform in this way must be brought 
about through the Judges, who should act both as Judge and Jury. 
It is a wholesome sign, however, when a Judge is ready to follow 
up his own acts and deeds, and one of the freest buyers at the 
Thorpe Constantino sale of Leicesters was Mr. William Torr, 
I one of the Judges at Cardiff, who gave the highest price 
of the day, 141 guineas, for a shearling. Signal as was Mr. 
Inge's success, this had already been presaged, as the champion 
ram, that is the best of all the sheep, at the Exeter Devon County 
Society, was one with a Constantino pedigree, and the best sheep 
at the Dorchester meeting traced to the same blood which has 
penetrated through Devon down to the Land's End where 
anything of " any good " is pretty sure to show " a bit of Leicester." 
^ Subjoined is Mr. Riley's Report : — 
' Class 77. Shearling rams. — The first prize, Xo. 72o, was a grand sheep, good 
neck, firm loin, a most beautiful fleece, altogether the best specimen of a 
' Leicester, I have seen for some time. No. 745, the second prize, a fine upstand- 
ing sheep, a little too long in the neck. No. 740, the third prize, a very 
nice sheep but rather faulty in his fleece. Xo. 742, the reserve number, fame 
I as 745. Xo. 732 the highly commended, a very good sheej), but stood badly 
on his ancles. With the exception of the first-j^rize sheep, the class was 
j scarcely equal to what I have seen exhibited. 
' Class 78. X'^o. 753, the first prize, a very good three-shear with a capital 
fleece, and good firm mutton. X^o. 762, the second prize, is also a very good 
three-shear. Xo. 754, the third prize, is a useful two-shear, good loin and firm 
■ mutton — the class as a whole good. 
Class 79. Xo. 765, the first-prize pen, I thought superior to any I had 
\ seen exhibited for some j^ears, the perfect type of a Leicester. Xo. 767, the 
second prize, were very good, though the fleece was not quite perfect. Both 
the othci*pens shown were verj' good. 
\ Notwithstanding that many of the leading flock-masters still 
keep aloof, there was a better show than of late of Cotswolds, in 
which classes Mr. Thomas of St. Hilary, and other local breeders, 
gave good evidence of how well this variety of sheep is answering 
in South Wales. The report of the Judges on the Glamorgan- 
shire ewes is very satisfactory : 
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