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We would fain hope we may welcome some of them at Carlisle, 
with brighter suns and under happier auspices ; and though 
we cannot hope to show them a Windsor, or a Woburn, or 
a Rothamsted, nor perhaps farm-houses standing in their 
flowery lawns, they will see how our north-country farmers 
have held their own against the hardships of their climate, 
and may visit a border land rich in the traditions of Scotch and 
English life, and I am sure they will meet with a hearty and 
appreciative welcome. 
XI. — Report of the Judges of Foreign Draught Horses 
at Kiiburn, 1879.'* 
These horses were entered in the Catalogue in several classes 
under the following names : — " Percheron and Eoulonnais," 
" Flemish," and " other Foreign Draught Horses." The classes 
represented were Nos. 238 and 239, and 242 to 245 ; but in 
these six classes there were altogether only sixteen entries. 
The abstention of foreign exhibitors is very much to be re- 
gretted, but its solution is to be found in the difficulty of con- 
veying animals across the sea, and more especially in the measures 
of sanitary police which the English Government has felt bound 
to take with regard to foreign animals. It is true that these 
precautionary regulations do not apply to horses, but many 
breeders, frightened already by the inconveniences of the journey, 
have recoiled before the precautions which they believed were 
applicable to them, but which also they did not clearly under- 
stand. 
Class 238. — Percheron and Boulonnais Stallions, — This class contained 
five entries, all of which were present; and of the six classes which we had 
to judge it was certainly the one which came before us under the best cir- 
cumstances. All tlie horses in this class possessed the characteristic grey 
colour of the Percheron and Boulonnais breeds, to which they all belonged 
more or less. The tirst-prize stallion, " Turenne," No. 7692, belonging to 
M. Pierre Louis Modesse-Berquet, a French exhibitor, was I'oaled in 1871, 
in the department of the Pas-de-Calais. It is one of the best types of the 
French draught horse, being both strong and light. Its head is delicate, 
the stride long, body near the ground, and the limbs are big and well 
set on. This horse trots with perfect ease. It carried off the first prize 
at the Universal Exhibition at Paris for draught stallions under 16 haiids 
high. The second prize, " Brilliant," No. 2b88, belonging to His Grace the 
Duke of Westminster, is also of French extraction ; it possesses those 
qualities which are appreciated in a draught stallion, while at the same time 
* This Eeport was received too late to be included in the " Eeport on the 
Horses at Kilburn," published in the last number of the ' Journal,' pp. 565-601. 
— Editor. 
