446 Report of the Steioards of Stock at the Newcastle Show. 
wools in Great Britain, the show of wool did not equal their expectations, 
cither as to quantity or quality. 
" The class of Leicester and Border Leicester was moderate, and specimens 
were found which they considered were not pure Leicester, but descended from 
the Cheviot ewe. They would recommend the Council to have a special 
class for wools of mixed breeds. The single specimens of Cotswolds and Lin- 
colns being of no merit either for breed or texture, the prizes were withheld. 
The Shropshire specimens were very good, and that which obtained the prize 
was first-rate wool, both as regards breed and quality of staple, combined with 
strength and cleanliness. The other descriptions being only moderately repre- 
sented need no comment." 
Pigs. 
In spite of the proximity of Newcastle to the great pig 
breeding districts of the West Riding, the entries under this 
head showed a decrease of twenty as compared with Worcester. 
The local committee gave no prizes, but the deficiency was 
mainly to be found in the small white and Berkshire classes, 
which far more than counterbalanced an increase of one-third in 
the large whites. 
Class CI., for Large White Boars, was better than last year, 
and there were more of them. The first prize, Mr. H. Harrison's 
" Young Hero," from a sow of Mr. Wainman's breed, wanted a 
little more hair, but was an easy winner. He is a very good and 
level pig, with great width between the ears and over the 
shoulders, and remarkably well filled up about the head. Mr. 
Duckering's " Victor," the second prize taker, had no tail to 
speak of; which is too often the first symptom of in and in 
breeding. 
The Small White Boars made up a very good class (CII.), but 
smaller than last year, when Mr. Mangles had six entries, and 
was third with " Cupid." This gentleman now wins with 
Cupid's own brother, "Brutus," which was then the reserve 
number, and has grown into a very excellent pig, both in flesh, 
form, and hair. Mr. Findlay, of Easterhill, was second with 
" George I.," a good thick-fleshed pig, and Mr. Stearn third with 
" Young Duke," which was very much younger than either. 
Among the Small Black Boars (Class CI1I.) there was rather 
a tendency to be short of hair, a want which the profusion of 
black essence with which they are covered can hardly be said to 
supply. The hair of both Mr. Sexton's " General Peel " and 
his " Blair Athol," the first and second prize winners, both of 
them by "Battersea Prince," was perhaps a little too coarse. The 
former had a fine outline, but the latter fails slightly behind the 
shoulder. Mr. Steam's "Sambo" was softer in the hair, but 
there was too little of it. 
