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The shearling 1 ewes made up a very beautiful class, and it 
would be difficult to 'find a match for the first prize pen, sent by 
Lord Walsingham. The Goodwood ewes were a very level lot, 
but not on quite so large a scale, and hardly so well got up. The 
four other pens, those of the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of 
Radnor, Lord Walsingham, and Sir Thomas Lennard, were all 
highly commended, and most deservedly so. 
The judges of the Slivopshire sheep, Classes LXXXIX.- 
XCI., who remark that " some of the breeders of pens will in 
future do well to pay greater regard to the appearance, the 
character, and the wool of their sheep," and mention ten entries 
sent by five different owners, have handed in the following 
report : — 
" The Shropshires form, we believe, the Largest of any of the Sheep classes at 
the Royal Meeting of the present year, the numbers entered being as follows, 
viz. : — 
" Class LXXXIX.— Shearling Earns 4G 
„ XC— Older Earns 9 
„ XCI. — Shearling Ewes 10 
" 'Ibis number of entries we consider comparatively large, taking into con- 
sideration the distance at which the Show is held from the counties whence 
they sprung, and the districts where they have hitherto been best known and 
appreciated. 
"We have great pleasure in recording our opinion that the Shropshires 
exhibited at Newcastle are, with a few exceptions, uniform in character and 
quality, and combine good size and weight with excellent wool-growing pro- 
perties ; and that they are in all respects well calculated to maintain their 
position as a useful and profitable breed, and to obtain the favour of those 
persons who study to breed an animal capable of producing at once a high-class 
and plentiful supply of mutton and a heavy fleece of good wool. 
" We find the class much more distinctive and uniform in character than in 
former years, the result, no doubt, of the sheep being recognised by the Boyal 
Agricultural Society of England, and the consequent stimulus to flockmastcrs 
to breed from pure sires, possessing natural perfections and blood of unquestion- 
able purity. 
" In making our selections, we have endeavoured to adhere to the type we 
consider best calculated to maintain the reputation of the breed, and to promote 
the advantages of sheep breeders and the public generally ; and while we have 
kept in view the importance of producing a heavy fleece, we have not forgotten 
the necessity of recommending the animals most capable of producing heavy 
muscular flesh, and those best calculated in their own natures to perpetuate a 
symmetrical, heavy, and hardy sheep. 
" We are pleased to note that the general excellence of the Class of Shearling 
Earns caused us much trouble in making our decisions, no fewer than 18 speci- 
mens being ordered by us into the ring to make our final selections from, and 
we do not hesitate in pronouncing them to be the best 18 sheep we ever saw 
together." 
The first prize for Shropshire shearlings was awarded to a 
totally new exhibitor, Mr. E. Thornton, of Pitchford, with 
Mr. H. Matthews and Mr. J. Coxon second and third ; and the 
strength of this class may be judged of from the fact that the 
