gg Shropshire Sheep. 
Shropshire Sheep Exported. 
1913 
1912 
1911 
1910 
1909 
1908 
1907 
1906 
1905 
1904 
1903 
North America (U.S.A., 
Canada, and Newfound- 
land) .... 
400 
61 
733 
968 
1,352 
1,774 
1,427 
1,057 
253 
217 
65 
S. America (Buenos Aires, 
Uruguay. Monte Video, 
Chili, Peru, Brazil) 
105 
7 
78 
65 
115 
205 
569 
657 
497 
275 
288 
Australia, Tasmania, and 
New Zealand 
17 
8 
7 
2 
3 
11 
212 
82 
153 
66 
331 
South Africa, Algiers, Algoa 
Bay, &c. . • • • 
Russia, Germany, France, 
120 
2 
26 
11 
9 
21 
45 
52 
54 
27 
46 
Spain, Denmark, Sweden, 
Hungary, Jamaica, Fin- 
land, Greece, Portugal, &c. 
43 
38 
39 
25 
122 
35 
61 
54 
75 
118 
58 
Totals .... 
685 
116 
883 
1,071 
1,601 
2,046 
2,314 
1,902 
1,032 
703 
788 
The public appearance of the breed in the Royal Showyard 
at Gloucester in 1853 was the turning point with the Shropshire 
sheep, and encouraged breeders to use their best judgment in 
selection, and do all in their power to place their breed of 
sheep in the front rank. The reports available state that 
Shropshires were in great force amongst the other short- 
woolled sheep. 
The prizes on this occasion were won by Mr. Thomas 
Horton and Mr. W. 0. Foster, the other exhibitors including 
Mr. Samuel Meire, Castle Hill, Much Wenlock ; Mr. Charles 
Ran dell, Chadbury, Evesham ; Mr. George Haugliton, Pitch- 
ford ; Mr. B. Vaughan, Biirway, Ludlow ; the Earl of Ayles- 
ford, and Mr. James Hand and Mr. F. Lloyd, both of Ludlow, 
who exhibited respectively what were styled old Shropshire 
grey ewes and Shropshire Down ewes. 
It should, however, be noted that at the Royal Show at 
Shrewsbury in 1845 several Shropshire rams of various ages 
were exhibited by Mr. John Davies, of Halford, Ludlow, and 
that Mr. Forester, of High Ercall, Salop, also exhibited a ram 
forty months old, bred by Mr. Salisbury, Dordon, near 
Ather stone. 
Shropshires were next seen at the Great National Show 
in 1857 at Salisbury. Reporting on this Show in the Farmers' 
Magazine we have the following : — 
“ The Shropshire Downs have for several years stood high 
as a distinct breed, they are very prolific breeders, they fatten 
upon very moderate food, their form is in good proportion, and 
they yield good fleeces. 
“ In reporting upon the Gloucester meeting (1853) we said 
something like this, that the best sheep in the Show was 
Shropshire Down. From that time our eye has been upon 
