566 Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Derby. 
commended at Tunbridge Wells, Mr. Turner's " Silvia " being 
there put second. This was the best Hereford class bj a long 
way, and the Judges gave a prize or commendation to each animal 
in it. Mr. Carwardine took the first and second prizes in the 
Heifer Calf Class with his pretty pair, " Venus " and "Henrietta," 
making five prizes in all, three firsts and two seconds, four out 
of these prize-winners being got by " Lord Wilton," a well- 
known sire. The Judges sent in the following concise report. 
Having been requested to make a Keport on the Herefords, it is our duty to 
say a few words. They number few entries as compared with some former 
Sliows of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. There are some very 
good animals, but we think the entries sliould have been better for a Eoyal 
Show. Oil the whole, with few exceptions, we do not think them up to the 
usual standard of merit. -r ^ 
John Craxe. 
Fra>;cis Evaks. 
Devons. 
From an entry of 22 Devons, belonging to four owners, 21 
came to Derby to compete for prizes to the amount of 215/. 
There were 32 entries at Carlisle, and about the same number at 
Bristol ; but the decrease at Derby is due to the absence of any 
representatives of Mr. Farthing's well-known herd, which either 
has taken prizes or received high commendations at every Royal 
Show since 1850. It is understood that Mr. Farthing has dis- 
continued the exhibition of animals, and has left the field where 
he has won so much distinction clear for others. No one has 
done so much as Mr. Farthing to preserve the pure type of 
Devon and to illustrate it with the most perfect and most 
symmetrical examples. The show of Devons cannot be con- 
sidered first-rate, an opinion evidently shared by the Judges, 
who did not award the third prize in any case ; and in Class 60, 
in which there were only two entries, merely commended the 
second in merit. This is carrying out the rules of the Society 
literally and properly, and it would be well if all the Judges 
would consider that the prizes are not to be awarded as a matter 
of course, nor as a matter of right to the exhibitors, but only in 
cases of undoubted and undeniable merit. 
Lord Falmouth's first-prize bull " Sir Michael," which took 
the first honours at Carlisle and at the Bath and West of England 
Show at Tunbridge Wells, is a splendid beast, level, and exceed- 
ingly good in his quarters ; Mr. Skinner came second with 
" Fancy's Robin," a very good animal. " Sweet William," from 
Mr. Fryer's herd, was placed first in the Two Yearling Class, 
having taken the second place as a yearling at Carlisle, and 
Mrs. Langdon's " Jonquil " second. Mrs. Langdon's " Duke of 
Flitton 15th" was rightly considered the best yearling, though 
Lord Falmouth's " Banjo " ran him close. Only three Bull 
