. Farmer and stockbreeder . mbs. BORDER LEICESTERS This breed was much admired: they moved so wellwhen out of the pen that many who were tin-acquainted witli the breed were attracted by thefine gay carriage and also by the freedom of theircoats from colour or oil, and equally so by the even-ness of the fleece. Messrs. R. G. Murray & Sonwere winners in the old ram class with abeautiful sheep, to which champion honours Rt. Hon. A. J. Balfour was second with anothervery handsome ram, with grand carriage, type andcharacter, Mr. W. R. Ko=w taking third anilreserve. In tlie yearling ram cla
. Farmer and stockbreeder . mbs. BORDER LEICESTERS This breed was much admired: they moved so wellwhen out of the pen that many who were tin-acquainted witli the breed were attracted by thefine gay carriage and also by the freedom of theircoats from colour or oil, and equally so by the even-ness of the fleece. Messrs. R. G. Murray & Sonwere winners in the old ram class with abeautiful sheep, to which champion honours Rt. Hon. A. J. Balfour was second with anothervery handsome ram, with grand carriage, type andcharacter, Mr. W. R. Ko=w taking third anilreserve. In tlie yearling ram class we found keen competi-tion. The Rt. Hon. A. J. Balfour was first and com-mended: his nearest competitor, Mr. W. W. Hope,pushed him hard for the leading place. & Sons were third, With Mr. W. R. Ross asreserve. J he yearling ewe class shown singly was one ofoutstanding merit throughout; the leading winner,owned by the Rt. Hon. A. J. Balfour, w is real rVefor champion honours, her flock-mate being cor?-. Photo oy] Some Views of the Sheep Judging [Sport and General. excellent one, Messrs. F. J. Mersons & Sons pairbeing first and second winners. They were excellentrams with most typical horn and head and goodflesh. Next came a well-gTown ram owned byMessrs. Kingswell, that moved one might almost 6aymajestically, followed by Mr. F. C. Browns, whocame in as reserve. The last mentioned exhibitorwas second in the ram lamb class with a trio of realgood rams. Some .thought they might have gonefirst, but taking all into consideration, the winningpen owned by Messrs. Kingswell were the had a bit more type and were good rams,full of good flesh. The third winners were J. Merson & Sons, an old flock and well repre-sented by this excellent exhibit. We greatly admired the very excellent class of year-ling ewes. Mr. E. P. Brown led with a notably goodpen, with good heads, bodies and even fleeces. G. Heal, a fresh competitor at the Royal, hadthree good e
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