110 DISQUALIFIED PIGS AT THE BIRMINGHAM SHOW. 
“ To the Editor of the ^ Mark Lane Express,' 
^^SiR,—I think it right to make known the steps which I 
have taken, in consequence of the disqualification (on the 
ground of their not being of the same litter) of some pigs sent 
from my farm to the late exhibition at Birmingham. Feeling 
that it was due to the character of my farm bailiff (Mr. Smith) 
that I should afford him the fullest opportunity of vindicating 
himself from the charge of dishonesty or inaccuracy, which is 
implied in the decision of Professor Gamgee, I immediately 
ordered the sale of the pigs in question to be stopped, and 
that they should be sent back to this place—my bailiff writing 
at the same time to the seeretary of the Birmingham Society, 
requesting that some one connected with the Society should 
have the pigs marked. I have called for the highest available 
professional opinion on the pigs, which opinion will be made 
public; and I have ordered that the pigs should eventually 
be killed at my own farm, and the jaws carefully preserved, 
in order that they may remain permanent evidence of the 
accuracy or the inaccuracy of the opinion pronounced at 
Birmingham. The declaration of my bailiff, and of the man 
in charge of the pigs, will be made public.—I am, &c. 
E. G. Douglas Pennant. 
^^Dec. 13, 1862.’’ 
^\ To the Editor of the ^ Mark Lane Express J 
Sir, —In accordance with the pledge given in my letter of 
the I3th instant, I now forward the opinions of three veteri¬ 
nary surgeons, who have examined the pigs sent from my 
farm, which were disqualified at Birmingham. The first is 
that of Mr. Barth, a veterinary surgeon of considerable expe¬ 
rience and practice at Chester; the second, that of Mr. Farrall, 
the consulting referee of the Royal Agricultural Society of 
Ireland; the third, that of Professor Simonds, of the Royal 
Agricultural Society of England. I also furnish the statement 
of my farm bailiff (Mr. Smith); and as'he has been but for a 
short time in my service, I think it due to him to state that 
I received, on taking him into my employment, the highest 
recommendation of him from General Hood, who had known 
him for a considerable time, and from whom I have lately 
received a letter expressing his conviction that he would not 
be wilfully guilty of deceiving me or the public by exhibiting 
animals of a different age from that represented. I have only 
