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The Cheviots were by no means so pood as we have seen them 
at the Highland Society's meetings, and there were no entries 
from Messrs. Brydon, Borthwick, and Hunter, who carried off 
a great majority of the prizes at Battersea. There was not a 
single Scottish entry in the Blackfaccd classes, which were 
furnished by Yorkshire, Durham, Northumberland, Westmore- 
land, and Cumberland. The Herdwicks were pretty nearly a 
Cumberland class, as that county sent thirteen entries out of 
sixteen, but still Westmoreland and the Messrs. Browne had the 
best of it in the prize list. 
" The kingdom of Scotland and Northumberland," as the 
breeders of Border Leicesters term it, did its duty very fairly. This 
class of sheep has been coming into repute for some years past with 
the English flockmasters, many of whom attend the great Kelso 
ram sale in September. Last year no less than 2180 rams were sold 
there in one day. The Border type is so marked that the Judges 
at once disqualified two English Leicesters which were entered in 
the ram class. The black spots which are discernible about the 
head and ears of so many of them tell of their descent from the 
old Teeswaters. They are small in the scrag, but have fine 
general substance and size, and cross well with the Lincolns and 
Cotswolds. They also do well on moderate land, and bear 
storms well at the foot of the Cheviots. It is the speciality of 
the ewes to be very prolific, and to "milk like goats." They 
are rather bare on their bellies, and have fine but rather light 
weighing wool. Their breeders go for open wool as much as 
possible, so as to correct the close coat of the Cheviots in 
crossing ; and if there is one thing they avoid more than another 
it is a tendency to blueness about the head. In the prize list the 
Messrs. Simson were especially successful. 
The Judges report as follows on these four breeds 
" In the Class of Cheviot Shearling Earns there is a good entry, and the 
breed is well represented. The shearling ewes are also a fair lot; but. the 
aged rams are limited in numbers, and, with one or two exceptions, only of 
ordinary quality. 
" The Blackfaced breed is poorly represented in all the classes. 
" The Tlerdwirls are a good lot in all the classes. 
"In the Border Leicester classes there is a good show of shearling rams, 
several of which are of superior quality. In the other classes the entries arc 
fair, but in each the breed is well represented." 
The two Wool Judges have handed in the subjoined Re- 
port : — 
" In presenting their Report the Judges wish to observe that, considering 
the reputation of Northumberland as a wool-producing country, and its 
contiguity to Berwickshire, which produces the most valuable, deep-staplo 1 
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