3-074-822 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Birmingham Cattle, Poultry, and Dog Show, 1883. '101; First Prize; 681; Weight; Shape; Poodle - 817 - 1st Prize; The "Show" Nuisance; "I'll Gie yer Threpunce for yer Catalogue Sir"; A Novel Advertiser; Preserved Eggs; 2582...The thirty-fifth yearly exhibition of fat cattle, sheep, pigs, roots, corn, implements, poultry, and pigeons...[was held] in Bingley Hall...the useful sort of barn-door produce was encouraged by the offer of prizes...for preserved eggs...The subject of our first Illustration is No. 101 in the list of cattle, a four-year-old ox, of the longhorn breed, owned by the Duke of Buckingham, which was adjudged "the heaviest and best beast of any breed or age." No. 85 is the cow belonging to Mr. John Baker, of Wisbech, but bred by Lord Lovat, which won an extra prize...The mandarin duck. No. 2582, belonging to Mr. S. Wade, of Leeds, will be noticed for the singular arrangement of its tail-feathers'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.