Related article: patronage of Lord Tredegar, upon his own domain, is of more than local interest, for it comprises not only farm stock, but hunters, and those who attend it always bring away a pleasant impression of what they have seen, and of the hospitality shown them. Birming- ham, of course, is more severely business, although there is always an agreeable gathering at the luncheon — and a very excellent one, too— on the opening day, when, as a rule, the President for the year makes a point of being present. Lord Craven, who has a fine residence near Birming- ham, Combe Abbey, was true to the tradition this year, bringing with him a party, which included Prince Victor Dhuleep Singh, Lord Dewhurst, Lord Villiers, and Capt. St. Aubyn, while among the other visitors were several more identified with the racecourse and the hunting-field than the home- stead, such as Lord Bradford, Lord Coventry, and Mr. Harry Fitz william, though Lord Coven- try, it need hardly be said, has been a successful breeder of Here- fords for many years. The weather, as usually the case at Birmingham, was villainous, especially on Satur- day, and there was no temptation to wander out into the unlovely streets of the Midland Metropolis, especially as about three o'clock a raucous newsboy brought us the result of the Manchester No- vember Handicap — a subject, how- ever, upon which it is too painful for me to dwell. So let me revert to the fat stock, upon which we do not " dash it down," unless it be in the form of a mild wager be- tween the Norwich and Birming- ham Champion winners as to which will come out on the top at Isling- ton. The former did not go to Bingley Hall, where the display of Herefords, Shorthorns, and De- vons was most disappointing in respect to numbers, and nothing out of the way in regard to quality. Her Majesty, who had Order Procardia Online only a single representative at Norwich, came out in greater force at Bir- mingham, as the special prizes for the best of the three breeds men- tioned above all went to the Royal exhibits, and the Shorthorn heifer, Margaret, which had not a very strong opposition to quench in her breed, came out to com- pete for the three Challenge Cups of 100 guineas, which lent ad- ditional lustre to the Birmingham prize-sheet. But here the Windsor heifer found her progress barred by Lord Strathmore's Polled Angus heifer, " Ju-ju of Glamis," who had won the Special Prize for the best of the Scotch, and was such a symmetrical and welt- fattened heifer that there was no getting away from her. The judges at Birmingham held this view, and in placing her first and 68 BAILY S MAGAZINE. [January the Queen's heifer second, they commanded general approval. " Ju-ju " was not — alas ! that I should have to speak of her in the past tense — a big heifer, her live- weight being 15 cwt. 2 qr. 15 lb., but I take it that she "killed" well, and Lord Strathmore, having . secured these three Challenge Cups once before, will, if he can bring oujt another animal good enough to win, be entitled to keep them. There was not a large show of sheep at Birmingham, but a few good pens of Southdowns stood out in relief, Sir Humphrey de Trafford and the Prince of Wales being first and second; and the pigs were, as on two or three previous occasions, absent, for swine fever, as one is sorry to hear, is still prevalent in the Mid- lands. With the usual interval of only a few days, the Smithfield Club Show opened at Islington on Mon- day, the 5th, and, as I have said, it was not an exceptionally large one, so far as cattle and sheep were concerned, especially when one takes into consideration that, by way of celebrating its centenary, the Club Generic Procardia had increased the prize- list from ^3,700 to ^"4,900, and that the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York had presented Challenge Cups of £100 and £"50 respectively for the best pens of sheep and pigs. What the dimen- sions of the Show would have been if Sir Walter Gilbey's pro- posals had been Buy Cheap Procardia carried out, it is, of course, impossible to say, but the probability is that we should then have had a " record M Show. However, the falling off was not great enough to affect the interest taken in the competition, several phases of which were got through in the presence of the Prince of Wales, who, the readers of Baily are no doubt aware, was the President for the year, this being Buy Procardia Online the third time that he had held that office. Nor did members of the Club need H.R.H.'s assurance, at the meet- ing held on the second day, of his interest in agriculture, and this interest, it may be added, has always been displayed at the Smithfield Club's Shows, for King George III. exhibited two " beasts" at the second Show in 1800, while a few years later his son, the Duke of York, sent pigs for com- petition. The present Duke of Cambridge's father was also a patron of the Show, which H.M. the Queen and the Prince Consort visited upon more than one occa- sion, while the latter also filled the Purchase Procardia Online post of President. Order Procardia Moreover, the Windsor stock have for a long time been in the thick of the fight, and five times within the last fifteen years has Her Majesty taken the Champion Plate for cattle, and once won her own Challenge Cup, first offered in 1884. The Prince of Wales has also won the Championship for cattle once and for sheep twice, and it Purchase Procardia is perhaps needless to say that both of them were well re- presented at Islington the other day, the Duke of York sending two head of cattle and Prince Christian a pen of Berkshire pigs. The Queen Buy Procardia sent the animals which had done so well at Bir- mingham, and she again won the Breed Cups with her Devon and Hereford, but her Shorthorn heifer Margaret was not so fortunate, as she could only take second prize in her class behind a heifer ex- hibited by Mr. Learner, and bred like the late Mr. Colman's cross- breds by Mr. John Ross, of Meikle Tarrel, who has been hav- ing a great time of it at these Christmas Shows. There was not anything of ex- ceptional merit in any of these three breeds, and the same may !»».] It OUR VAN.