572 Report on the Exhihition of Live-Stock at Derby. 
dairying is largely carried on in the district, and that the noted 
pastures of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, and Warwickshire 
are within easy distance, while the rich grass-land of Cheshire is 
not very far off. Yet, for prizes amounting in the aggregate to 
95Z., there were only four entries, of which it hardly will be 
credited two were made by a resident in Surrey, and only one by 
an inhabitant of Derbyshire. In Class 89, Mr. Vale, of Breadsall, 
Derby, took the lead with four cross-bred Shorthorn cows, with 
good bags, and evidently good milkers ; and the Judges recom- 
mended that the second prize should be given to the other 
exhibitor, Mr. Ferme, of Streatham Hill, Surrey, for his some- 
what ordinary Ayrshires. Two cows had been entered in 
Class 90, for the best pair of pure-bred Shorthorns, by Mr. 
Foljambe, but these poor animals, unfortunately, were very 
badly burned in the railway trucks on their way to Derby. It 
appeared that the sheeting above them was set on fire by sparks 
from an engine, and the litter under the cows was ignited. 
Before the fire was discovered and put out, it had seriously 
injured both animals, their udders being very much burned, 
as well as their breasts and bellies. They were taken to the 
hospital attached to the Showyard on their arrival, and carefully 
nursed under the direction of the veterinary officers, but were 
utterly unfit for exhibition. No one but Mr. Ferme, of Surrey, 
had the pluck to try for the prize offered for a pair of heifers 
of any breed or cross, in-milk, under three years old. His cows 
were Ayrshires of average quality. In the next class, for a pair 
of heifers of any breed or cross under two years old, literally 
there was no entry, though the conditions were wide enough 
and broad enough in all conscience, comprehending all races of 
cattle under the sun. Very much disappointment was felt by all 
dairy farmers and those interested in the improvement and ex- 
tension of this branch of agriculture, at the unsatisfactory result 
of this competition, which its promoters, as well as the Council 
of the Society and the visitors to the Showyard, confidently 
expected would have been large, and peculiarly interesting. 
The Report of the Judges of Longhorns (Classes 68 to 74), and 
of Dairy Cows is given below : — 
Class 68. — Prize animals are good representatives of tlie breed. 
Class 69. — A very useful class ; the prize animals very good. 
Class 70. — Not a good class. 
Class 71. — An excellent class ; prize animals showinrr good dairy properties. 
Class 72. — A very good class ; Nos. 503, 500, and 502 very superior. 
Class 73. — Prize animals useful. 
Class 74. — The noticed calves are good useful animals. 
Class 89. — First- prize covs's very good, showing good milking properties. "We 
recommend second jirize to No. 645, they exhibiting great milking qualities. 
Class 91. — One heifer good, the other secondary. 
Edmund Ltthall. 
John Treadwell. 
