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Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Derby. 
the words of Professor Wilson : " The coarseness of the animal 
frame of the Lincolns gradually disappeared, the flesh was laid 
on more uniformly, maturity was advanced fully one year, less 
food was required, and an aptitude to fatten induced . . , the 
fleece was slightly diminished in weight, but improved in 
quality."* It is said that whole clips of wool of hoggs in large 
flocks have averaged as much as 12 lbs. per fleece, and that 
well-fed rams will shear from 14 to 21 lbs., and, in exceptional 
cases, as much as 28 or even 30 lbs. of wool. This, of course, 
only holds upon certain soils, and in certain localities ; and it 
is gathered that Lincolns are not by any means the best sheep 
for land of poor quality. The prize-winners in all the classes at 
Derby fully exemplified the characteristic qualities of the breed, 
together with fine conformation and manifest aptitude to fatten ; 
and it is satisfactory to find, from a statement kindly sent by 
Mr. Prankish, that the Judges at the recent Lincolnshire Show 
awarded the prizes to the same sheep, in their respective classes. 
There was no difficulty in adjudging Mr. Wright's sheep, 
Nos. 732 and 734, in spite of a somewhat loose handling on 
their backs, to be the best rams in the Shearling Class, which 
was not otherwise of much merit. In the Old Ram Class, a 
small class of nine, of which Mr. H. Smith, of Cropwell Butler, 
contributed seven, the three prizes were taken by his sheep — 
" Manchester," "Lord Lyons," and " Starnhill " — the first-named 
of which is probably as good a specimen of a Lincoln as could 
be produced. Mr, Wright took the first prize for Shearling Ewes 
with a level pen of sheep, and Mr. Roe obtained lOZ., given by 
the Derby Local Committee, with ten breeding ewes of all ages 
and shapes. 
The Judges of the Leicesters and Lincolns also took Class 106, 
in which the Derby Local Committee offered a prize for the 
best pen of ten Longwoolled Breeding Ewes, not Cotswold or 
Lincoln. One pen of Devon Longwoolled, of various ages and 
qualities, belonging to Mr. Norris, walked over for this. 
The following is the Judges' description of the classes of 
Leicesters, Lincolns, and Longwools. 
Leicesters. 
Class 93. — Poor class, with the exception of the prize sheep. 
Class 94. — Fair class. 
Class 95. — Only five pens exhibited ; third prize not awarded accordingly. 
Quality fair. 
Lincolns. 
Class 99. — Large class, but, with the exception of half-a-dozen animals, an 
inferior class. 
♦ ' On the various Breeds of Sheep in Great Britain, especially with reference 
to the character of their Wool.' By J. Wilson, Professor of Agriculture in the 
University of Edinburgh, Eoy. Agri. Soc. Jour., vol. xvi. p. 228. 
