596 Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Derby. 
Russell Svvanwic k, and the second to the executors of Arthur 
Stewart and to JVlr. Duckering, who exhibited animals in thir- 
teen out of the sixteen classes of pigs of the four breeds for 
which prizes weie offered. A pair of very good breeding sow 
pigs, owned by Mr. Hewer, were first, and Mr. Stewart's execu- 
tors came second, and first in the next class for Breeding Sows, 
Mr. Swanwick's sow being put second. 
Happily there were no cases of misstatement of age on the 
part ol exhibitors of pigs discovered by the Veterinary Inspectors, 
who went through the unpleasant process of examination with 
their usual assiduity. All must rejoice that this, at one time 
serious evil, has been checked by the firmness of the Council in 
coming down upon offenders. 
Bcport of the Judges. 
Tlie show of jiigs w as fxiHy up to the average in quality. 
The large Brted was well n presented, and the classes of both Aged 
Boars and Sows contained animals of the highest merit. 
The same cannot be said of the t mall lllaclc Breid. The entries were 
small in number and poor in quality, and we are of opinion that as these 
pigs are so rarely bred, it is a question whether it is necessary for the 
ISociety to continue classes for thtm. 
The Small Whites mustered much better, and the Aged Boar in this 
class was a pig of a very high standard. We wish here to remark that 
several pigs shown in these classes were of the old Middle Breed, and that 
though they are most admirable specimens of this useful sort, were not 
eligible to compete. 
The Berksltires were well represented, and took the lead in point of 
numbers, and in merit also ranked very high. The class for Aged Boars 
and Sows brought some magnificent specimens, and gave the Judges some 
difBeulty in selection. In both these classes the Judges held that some 
animals, though good pigs, did not possess the true I3erkshire type, and 
especially in the want of firmness of flesh, and they considered such pigs 
disqualified in consequence. 
'I he Judges cannot conclude without thanking their Steward, Mr. Foster, 
for the most kind and able assistance w hich he rendered them. 
Alfred Ashworth. 
John Angus Joseph Smith. 
Cheese and Buttee. 
" There were thirty-six entries of Cheese, and only twenty-two 
entries of Butter, in the four classes for Cheese, with prizes to the 
amount of 75/., and two classes for Butter with ten prizes, amount- 
ing to 30/. The paucity of the entries, and the comparatively 
indifferent quality of the samples exhibited are somewhat remark- 
able, when it is considered that Derby is situated in a dairy country, 
and that there is such an extensive demand for good Englis h 
cheese and butter, and that now for some time the importance 
