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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
balance in favour of the Society of something like a £1000, 
after all the expences have been paid. This large amount 
of money shows the interest which was created by the 
Society’s second visit to the town of Newcastle; but 
perhaps this is best exemplified by the fact, that nearly 
115,000 persons visited the show yard during the week of 
the exhibition. 
The show of stock was upon the whole satisfactory, but 
some classes were not so numerously or so well represented 
as could have been wished, arising chiefly from the great 
distance northwards that many of the animals would have 
had to travel. An exception to this necessarily belongs to 
the short-horns, which were at home in the district, and 
consequently they mustered in great strength, there being 
no less than 175 entries in the several classes of bulls, cows, 
heifers, and calves. Never perhaps was a finer show of 
these beautiful and most valuable animals ever seen; and 
certainly a more healthy lot, or one more free from here¬ 
ditary disease, was never brought together. 
The Herefords were fairly represented, but in the number 
of the Devons there was a great falling off. The specimens 
sent, however, maintained in both these classes the valuable 
points of each distinctive breed. 
To go seriatim through the several classes of cattle, 
sheep, and pigs, making only a few general remarks on each, 
would necessarily encroach too much on our limited space ; 
besides which we have to remember that we write for the 
veterinary surgeon and not for the agriculturist. Not¬ 
withstanding this, it will doubtless be expected that we 
should say something about the horses. Here, however, 
we have to confess to a disappointment, for with a few ex¬ 
ceptions, they were not equal to those brought together on 
many former occasions. Nine competitors only entered 
the list for the £100 prize for the best thorough-bred 
stallion. The winner —“ Laughing-stock,” a five-years- 
old bay, by “ Stockwell,” was rightly placed ; and he with 
“ Cavendish,” who took the second prize, were by far the 
best horses in the class. It is satisfactory to know that 
the thoroughbreds passed the veterinary inspection, with 
