444 Report on the Exhibition of Live Stock at Leicester. 
Mr. Sanday, Mr. Borton, Mr. Geo. Turner, Jun., and Mr. Wm. 
Brown were the prize takers, and Lord Berners and Mr. Riley 
were highly commended. 
COTSWOLDS. 
Although few of the old breeders on the Cotswolds exhibited, 
the classes were well filled. The Judges, Messrs. Clarke, Lord, 
and Bartholomew, report : — 
That Class LVIL, Shearling Earns, is not equal to former years, wliile 
Class LVIII., older Earns, is very superior. They also consider Class LIX., 
Shearling Ewes, generally good, and equal, if not superior, to those sheep 
heretofore exhibited at Royal shows. 
LiNCOLNS AND OTHER LONG WoOLS. 
The same judges officiated in these classes, and report : — 
In Class LX., Shearling Earns, we found nineteen in number, and some 
few of them tolerably good, but some cross-bred amongst them, which we 
think should be shown in a class to themselves. We consider the class in 
general only moderate in quality. 
Class LXI., Rams of any age. — We found in this class some very good 
specimens of Lincolns, and altogether a good class of breed. 
Class LXII., Shearling Ewes, was a very good lot generally, and highly 
creditable to the breeders. 
Oxfordshire Downs. 
Messrs. Turner, Little, and Newton adjudicated the prizes in 
the Oxfordshire Downs, Hampshires, and Southdowns, and we 
have great pleasure in giving their excellent report : — 
The class of Oxfordshire Shearling Earns was tolerably represented as to 
numbers, there being twenty-one entries. There was nothing particularly 
striking in any of the animals exhibited. Mr. Wallis's sheep were not quite 
so symmetrical as those he has shown on former occasions ; he was, however, 
successful in carryiug off the first and second jDrizes, and Mr. Roberts, a new 
exhibitor, the third prize. Mr. Bryant's shearlings did not come up to their 
former standard. Mr. Treadwell's sheep are well formed, heavy animals, but 
their coats too much resemble the Cotswold for sheep bearing the name of 
Downs, hence most jjrobably the disqualification of his two pens of shearling 
ewes by the inspectors of shearing ; had they not been set aside, the award of 
the Judges would have been materially altered in the ewe class. There was 
not much competition in the old sheep class ; not sufficient, indeed, to enable the 
Judges to award the third prize ; Mr. Wallis is first, and Mr. Treadwell 
second, with two useful well formed sheep, Mr. Wallis's sheep in this class 
being of good quality and character. In the Shearling Ewe class there was 
not much competition, Mr. Treadwell's two pens being disqualified. Mr. 
AVallis won the first prize easily ; the second prize was awarded to Mr. Over- 
man's pen. The contrast in the coats of these and Mr. Treadwell's was so 
great that it was difficult to reconcile their belonging to the same class of sheep. 
Hampshire Downs. 
The show of Hampshire Downs was very limited, there being only sixteen 
entries altogether, viz., 9 shearling rams, 4 older rams, and three pens of 
shearling ewes. 
