On Cross Breeding. 
capabilities of the little Exmoor sheep to an amount of excellence 
which no inspector of the ordinary breed Avould have believed 
them capable of attaining. But whilst this instance proves how 
much can be done by careful selection, vigorous weeding, and 
pure breeding, and conveys a warning to any rash and heedless 
practitioner of crossing, yet, if we regard it as a bar against the 
system, we deprive by anticipation the spirited introducer of this 
great improvement of the fair reward for his labours which he 
has a reasonable prospect of obtaining from the proprietors and 
improvers of other mountain-breeds. 
Although tlie term rnoiujrel is jirobably correct as referring to 
a mixed breed, yet, as it is generally used as a term of reproach, 
it should not be fairly applied to those recognised breeds which, 
however mixed or mongrel might liave been their origin, have 
yet by vigilance and skill become in the course of years almost 
as marked and vigorous and distinctive as the Anglo-Saxon race 
itself, whose name we are proud to bear, and whose mixed 
ancestry no one is anxious to deny. 
Let us conclude by repeating the advice that, when equal 
advantages can be attained by keeping a pure breed of sheep, 
such pure breed should imcpiestionably be preferred ; and that, 
although crossing for the purposes of the butcher may be practised 
with impunity, and even with advantage, yet no one should do 
so for the purpose of establishing a new breed, unless he has 
clear and well defined views of the object he seeks to accom- 
plish, and has duly studied the principles on which it can be 
carried out, and is determined to bestow for the space of half 
a lifetime his constant and unremitting attention to the discovery 
and removal of defects. 
Elirifj, Southampton. 
XVII. — Report on the Exhibition and Trial of Implements at the 
Warwick Meeting. By Charles Baenett, Senior Steward. 
As the Report of the trials of Steam Cultivators, Ploughs, Harrows, 
Clod-Crushers, Rollers, and other Implements employed in the 
cultivation of the soil, as well as Miscellaneous Articles, is given 
at considerable length and with great minuteness by the Judges, it is 
quite unnecessary for me to make any lengthened observations on 
those trials. Although the place of meeting at Warwick might 
not claim all the advantages of the far-famed " Roodee " at Ches- 
ter, yet it was a site well adapted to the requirements of an 
Exhibition of the Royal Agricultural Society of England that 
was numerically in excess of all former meetings, both in imple- 
