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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
Other Breeds. 
{Not including Short-Horns, Herefords, or Devons.) 
Class 1. — Bulls , calved previously to the \st July , 1854, and not exceeding 
four years old. 
First Prize, 20/., to No. 178, Lord Sondes, of Elmham Hall, Thetford. 
Second Prize, 10/., to No. 175, James S. Turner, of Ckyngton Farm, 
Seaford, Sussex. 
Class 2. — Bulls , calved since the 1st July , 1854, and more than one year old. 
The Prize, 10/., to No. 180, G.D. Badham, of the Sparrows Nest, Ipswich. 
Class 3. — Cows, in-milk or in-calf 
First Prize, 10/., to No. 183, James Gorringe, of Tilton-Selmeston, Lewes. 
Second Prize, 5/., to No. 186, Thomas M. Hudson, of Castle-Acre, 
Swaffham. 
Class 4. — Heifers in-milk or in-calf not exceeding three years old. 
The Prize, 10/., to No. 192, Lord Sondes, of Elmham Hall, Thetford. 
Class 5. — Yearling heifers. 
The Prize, 5/., to No. 196, G. D. Badham, of the Sparrows Nest, Ipswich. 
Sheep. — A finer collection of these animals, perhaps, has 
never been brought together at any former meeting of the 
Society. The Southdowns were excellent, and the Cotswolds 
left nothing to be desired. The Leicesters were also well 
represented, and were in greater request than of late by 
foreign purchasers. Many of the sheep, like the cattle, 
realised great prices. Indeed, this must ever be the case, or 
at least so long as the Old and the New Continent vie with 
each other and with the “Land of Gold,” for the possession of 
the best of fair England’s flocks and herds. We are un- 
willing to criticise the decision of the judges, but we cannot 
refrain from recording our opinion in favour of those who 
thought that the merits of Mr. Jonas Webb’s sheep were not 
duly appreciated, as likewise those of some of the animals 
belonging to other Southdown breeders. Mr. Overman’s 
sheep, the winner of the first prize in Class 1, was unques- 
tionably a fine animal, but to our mind he was deficient in 
some of his points, also in the quality of his wool and general 
condition, to others in the yard. 
