Report on Live-Stock at Carlisle. 
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Class 94. Bulls Two Years old und upwards. — " Daveyson 3rd," first — 
a wonderful good animal, with massive frame, good quality, and very level. 
" King Charles " took second honours, well deserving of his position. " Stout," 
third, a very promising youns; animal. 
Class 95. Btdh not exceeding Two Years old. — " Daveyson 7th " took first 
honours — a very nice level animal. The second, " Ben," was good. 
Class 9G. Cows in-Calfor in-Milk, Three Years old or upwards. — '-" Fanny," 
8 years 10 months, took first prize ; a very good animal, showing excellent 
quality and good level outlines. The second, " Flirt," is a very good cow. 
Class 97. Heifers under Three Years old. — "Silence" took first honours, 
being a very nice heifer, and does her owner great credit. The second-prize 
heifer is a very good specimen of the Norfolk breed. 
John Price. 
Ayrshire. 
Ayrshires, although tempted across the Border by prizes 
amounting to over lOOZ., made a provokingly limited exhi- 
bition of eleven animals, nearly all sent by the Duke of 
Buccleuch. V Surmising that the Duke was to be a large ex- 
hibitor, astute Scotch breeders were apparently averse to enter 
against odds of winning prizes. The Duke's only competitor 
was Mr. James Duncan, of Benmore, Kilmure, Greenock, who, in 
charge of a pair of good useful cows, sent a stout sonsie dairy- 
woman. The Duke of Buccleuch at Drumlanrig has about 
fifty Ayrshires in-milk ; for half a century they have been care- 
fully cultivated ; for about ten years picked specimens have 
been sent to the principal Shows ; great pains are taken to per- 
petuate the best milking strains ; special attention is given to a 
capacious milk-vessel, broad and firmly attached to the body 
behind, extending well forward, with square-placed, shapely 
teats, 2 inches to 2^ inches apart. Perhaps most breeders sacri- 
fice too much to milk. Some strains want substance and con- 
stitution, others are running to unpleasantly light colour, which 
is said to have the best reputation for milk. At Drumlanrig, 
cows in their prime, milked twice daily, yield 18 imperial pints 
at each meal. The heifers, generally kept in poor condition, 
to favour milk rather than flesh, calve at three years old. Not- 
withstanding spare diet and physic, occasional losses result 
from milk-fever, occurring within three days after calving ; the 
risks of which, however, may be diminished by not drying the 
adult best milking cows, but dripping them daily, or every second 
day, right up to the time of calving. 
The Duke of Buccleuch's four-year-old " Morning Star," 
white and dark-brown, bred by Mr. W. Hunter, Abington, 
Lanark, is an admirable type of the breed ; with more substance 
and natural flesh, and a better twist than is usually seen, and 
carrying himself gaily, as in proud consciousness of never 
having been beaten. The second bull, " Lord of the Isles," 
