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the quality which would ensure a good butchers' price. It would 
be instructive, and a useful guide to the Judges, if the cows in 
these dairy classes, when first they enter the Showyard, were 
milked dry under supervision, and their yield for several sub- 
sequent milkings was then carefully measured and recorded. 
The Judges' award is subjoined : — 
In Classes 111 and 112 the Judges were much disappointed to find so 
few entries for prizes given to encourage the jM-oduction of millc, considering 
that Carlisle is the centre of a very large and very important dairy district. 
In Class 111 only two pairs of cows were exhibited, a pair of Shorthorns 
and a pair of pretty Kerries; the Shorthorns were disquaUfied from incorrect 
entry, the prize going to the Kerries. 
In Class 112 only three cows were exhibited, two of which, showing more 
than ordinary milking qualities, were awarded prizes. The reserve number, a 
good cow, gave more indication of making flesh. 
J. n. BURBERT. 
Thomas Bowstead. 
SHEEP. 
Sheep contributed 448 entries, in 40 classes. The entries at 
Kilburn were 760, at Bristol 396, at Liverpool 410. All the 
important breeds were fairly represented, and the agriculturist 
must be capricious or his locality peculiar who could not find 
amongst these samples of some fifteen sorts animals likely to 
suit his taste or situation, and pay for his good management. 
Shropshires and Southdowns made the largest entries, and con- 
tained, moreover, many excellent sheep. In many classes where 
competition was restricted, as amongst Oxfords and Hampshires, 
a very high standard of usefulness and excellence was also 
reached. Classes for rams, as formerly, filled much better than 
those for ewes, and notwithstanding the admitted difficulty of 
producing superior male animals, all breeds furnished better 
rams than ewes. Flockmasters are perhaps naturally averse 
to sacrifice their best females even for showyard honours. 
Amongst breeds peculiar to the district, Border Leicesters made 
an admirable exhibition, combining the several advantages of 
size, constitution, and early maturity, with good mutton and 
wool. Throughout the North of England and Scotland, they are 
deservedly prized for crossing all the commoner sorts. Cheviots, 
although a very small muster, brought out some capital sheep, 
from two of the oldest and best Border flocks. The mountain 
sheep, retaining their essential hardiness, are becoming more 
compact and shapely, and are clothed with a better fleece. The 
black-spotted goat-like Herdwicks, and the long-legged some- 
what Cheviot-like Lonks, are still susceptible of considerable 
improvement. 
Leicesters are unrivalled in their uniformity of type. Long 
