334 Report on the Exhibition of Live Stock at Warwick. 
of this club to the year 1851, being the last year in which the 
different breeds were shown in competition, the Hereford steers 
and oxen won 185 prizes, the Short-horns 82, the Devons 44, 
the Scotch 43, tlie Sussex 9, the Long-horns 4, the Cross-breeds 
8 ; making a total of 190 prizes for all other breeds, or only 5 
more than were awarded to the Herefords alone. 
Allusion was made in the Chester Report to the deficiency in 
the milking properties of the cow : this arises from the fact of 
breeders paying greater attention to their feeding than their 
milking properties ; but there are pure-bred herds in dairy 
districts where proper attention has been paid to them (the pro- 
duce being reared by hand instead of sucking their dams) that 
have resulted satisfactorily to their owners, as they stock their 
land thicker, and thus gain more from the increased number of 
animals reared than they lose in the dairy produce. This has 
been proved by carefully tried experiments, one of the earliest 
of which is recorded by Youatt.* The best Herefords being- 
small consumers, and of good constitution, are well ada])ted for 
cold situations, yet, like all other animals, the better they are 
kept the better they thrive, and. the quicker is the return they 
yield. 
The Hereford classes contained some very choice specimens of 
the breed, and, as a whole, no class of animals attracted so much 
attention. Until within the last four or five years they were 
shown in limited numbers, principally from the county wlience 
they take their name. This year they numbered 89. Those 
from the herd of H.R.H. the Prince Consort were highly 
deserving the distinction paid them by the judges. The 
entries extended over a broad space of country, viz., Salop, 
Montgomery, Radnor, Monmouth, Gloucester, and Warwick, 
many of them exhibiting successfully. It is a singular fact 
that "other counties" equally divided the prizes and com- 
mendations with those sent from Herefordshire, thus proving 
the fallacy of the statement, that they will not succeed when bred 
out of tlieir own county. 
Class I. — Bulls not exceedinrj 6 i/ears old: 11 entries. — The 
first prize was awarded to Mr. Hill's " Claret," winner of the 
first prize as a yearling at Chester. He possesses a mass of 
iieavy flesh and great depth of carcase, his girth of 8 ft. 5 in. 
being above the average for his age, which was only 2 years 10 
montlis ; yet he was short, and inclined to become unlevel. Lord 
Berwick's " Severn," winner of the second prize, was a remark- 
ably fine level animal, and this may also be said of Mr. Williams' 
" Sir Colin." H.R.H. the Prince Consort's " Windsor," as 
* Youatt ' Ou Cattle,' p. 34. 
