560 Report, on the Exhibition of Live-Stoch at Derby. 
urged ; but as the difference is only as between 132 and 146, it 
can hardly be admitted. It scarcely can be imagined that the 
diminution of each prize by a few pounds would prevent breeders 
from sending animals duly prepared and ready. The depressed 
state of agriculture is no doubt one cause of fewer entries in all 
the classes for cattle, as well as the gradually growing feeling 
that the high feeding necessary for prize-winning animals is not 
conducive to their utility for breeding purposes, and that breeders 
of recognised strains of the leading breeds, who have never 
shown a head of cattle, have no difficulty in selling good animals 
for home use or for exportation. Frequently also would-be 
exhibitors are prevented from showing in the classes for aged 
animals, because they believe that their animals would stand 
no chance against well-established veterans which have gone 
from show to show, year after year, and swept away the prizes. 
Of such are " Telemachus Oth," " The Duke of Howl John," 
" Attractive Lord," " Vice- Admiral," and others of that type, 
which have rung the changes at the Royal and other Shows with 
varying success, according to the tastes and predilections of 
different judges. For such animals, which have gained a 
position, a Champion Class might be established. This would 
give agriculturists the opportunity of seeing the finest types of 
grand old animals together ; and at the same time make room 
for young animals to come to the front, whose owners keep them 
back now, knowing that they have but little chance against bulls 
which are fully developed in every point, and are perfectly well 
known to the Judges. In their report of the Shorthorns at 
Derby, the Judges confirm this opinion, as they say with 
reference to Mr. Handley's three-year-old bull, "Master Har- 
binger :" " Mr. Handley's is high on leg with light thighs, though 
he may improve in these parts with years." And again they say, 
with reference to " Great Northern Diver," commended in his 
class : "This latter will probably develop into a very good animal ; 
at present he, in common with other three-year-olds, is at a bad 
age to compare with the rest of his class." Let us, for example, 
take the case of the first-prize bull in the Old Bull Class, " Vice- 
Admiral," 4 years and 10 months old. This bull has taken a 
first prize in every class in which he has appeared at the Rojal 
Shows, with the exception of the Carlisle Show, when he stood 
second to the " Duke of Howl John." Surely " Vice-Admiral " 
may now be put on the retired list, or be relegated to a Cham- 
pion Class — an " upper house " — for distinguished " Dukes " 
and " Attractive Lords." It is a somewhat curious fact that 
every reporter upon live-stock for this Society has made some- 
what disparaging remarks concerning this animal. Thus at 
Liverpool, Mr. Macdonald says : — " ' Vice-Admiral ' is a fleshy. 
