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The Society's Show of 1905. 
non-compliance with the regulation as to farrowing before 
September 1, 1905. The first prize winner in this class was 
awarded the Championship in the Showyard ; but owing to the 
disqualifications the first prize winner in Class 241, which 
was Reserve Number, succeeded to this honour. Class 244 
“ contained several good pens of well-grown sow pigs, the 
winning exhibits being very closely followed by the non-prize 
winners.” 
The Middle Whites as a whole made a very nice show. 
The class (245) for boars, farrowed in 1903 or 1904, was headed 
by Sir Gilbert Greenall’s exhibit (No. 1922), which also secured 
the Champion Gold Medal. The remaining classes were very 
good, the young sows (Class 248) “ containing a lot of nice 
level pigs, displaying fine quality and substance.” 
The two entries sent by the Hon. D. P. Bouverie in each 
of the Small White classes quite merited the prizes given. 
Berkshires. — Class 251, for boars, was well filled with 
many animals of considerable merit. The first prize was won 
by Mr. J. Jefferson with No. 1970, which also obtained the 
Champion prize offered by the British Berkshire Society. 
Class 252 was well filled with some promising young boar 
pigs. The winning pens contained some “ well-marked fine 
quality exhibits, although too many of them showed more 
white spots than the British Berkshire Society care to 
recognise.” Class 253 contained “many very first-class 
sows, which ran the prize winners very close.” Some good 
specimens were exhibited amongst the pens of sow pigs 
(Class 254), the animals being “ well marked and of excellent 
coat and quality. Yet in this class, as well as in the other, a 
little judicious weeding was needed to keep the points of the 
Berkshire breed as pure as possible.” 
Tamworths. — The boar class (255) included some fine 
pigs ; but their condition, including that of even the winners, 
was disappointing. The first and second prize pens of boars, 
farrowed in 1905 (Class 256), were in “ excellent condition, 
good in colour, and well matched, and followed one another 
very closely.” The Champion and first prize sow in Class 257, 
exhibited by Mr. E. J. Morant, is of an “ improved type, long 
and deep in body, on short legs, with a good coat of the 
correct colour and of fine quality. The second and third prize 
winners were also worthy of mention, being very good 
specimens of the breed.” The same remarks apply to the 
young sows (Class 258). 
Large Black. — All four classes were well filled. The Silver 
Challenge Cup of the Large Black Pig Society, for the best sow 
in Class 261, was awarded to Mr. C. F. Marriner for No. 2089, 
and the same exhibitor also carried off the Male Championship 
