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Rh colnshire Show, where he last year won the three money prizes and the reserve ticket.

So far there have been no sensational prices paid for Lincolnshire Red Shorthorns, as they are still for the most part in the hands of tenant farmers; but the steady average, with a slight upward tendency each year, shows the growing popularity of the breed, and that there is money to be made out of this typical tenant-farmers' cattle. At the annual bull sales of the Lincolnshire Red Shorthorn Association, held at the county town each April, there is always a fine display, and the following figures will give an idea of the numbers and prices. In 1901, 165 bulls were sold at an average price of £25 3s. 6d., the best return being secured by Messrs. R. and R. Chatterton, Stenigot, whose animals averaged £56 14s. In 1902 the average was slightly lower, £25 2s. 9d., but five more bulls were disposed of, and this time £45 8s. 3d., obtained by Mr. T. Bett, Benniworth, was the best average. Close on 200 changed hands the following year, the executors of the late Mr. John Abraham obtaining an average of £49 12s. 3d., and in 1904 the entries rose to 293, but there were many of indifferent character that failed to find customers. That year Mr. G. E. Sanders, Scampton House, Lincoln, obtained an average of £61 8s. 6d. and sold one to go into the Burton herd for 130 guineas, while Mr. J. Mason, Calceby, gave 100 guineas for another. In 1905 the number of entries dropped somewhat, but there were still a few unsold, and their owners would have been wise to have converted them into steers. Mr. Sanders's average of £52 10s. was again the best, and one of his bulls went to Mr. Leslie Stephenson, South Thoresby, for 100 guineas. But three fresh records were set up in April, 1906, for at the Association's Bull Sales at Lincoln one of Mr. Sanders's bulls, Scampton Goldreef, was sold to go to Chili at 305 guineas, and the average for the seven bulls from the Scampton herd was £89 5s., while in all 166 bulls changed hands at an average of £27 10s. 11d.

The principal breeders of Lincolnshire Red Shorthorns are Mr. John Evens, Burton, whose animals are always in brisk demand for the great dairy countries of Europe and the principal milking herds of the United Kingdom; Mr. R. Chatterton, Stenigot, at whose sale in 1901, 124 lots (including thirty-six calves averaging under six months old) averaged £25 10s. 2d., the grand young bull Red Chief going to Mr. T. Bett, Benniworth, for 110 guineas; Mr. W. J. Atkinson, Weston St. Mary, who held a sale in 1904, when sixty-five lots, including sixteen calves and nine yearling bulls, averaged £27 4s.; and Messrs. S. E. Dean and Sons, Dowsby Hall, who purchased the bull calf Imperial Favourite at the late Mr. W. Marr's sale at Uppermill for 600 guineas, and who had a most successful sale in 1905. Other leading breeders are Mr. T. Bett, Benniworth; Mr. G. J. Brown, Tothby House, Alford; Mr. E. H. Cartwright, Keddington Grange; Messrs. T. and W. Dickinson, Worlaby; Messrs. J. W. Farrow and Sons, Strubby Manor, Alford; Mr. G. Frier, Deeping St. Nicholas; Messrs. T. and J. B. Freshney, South Somercotes; Lord Heneage, Hainton Hall; Mr. Everett King, Northborough, Market Deeping; Mr. J.Mason, Calceby Manor; Mr. J. W. Measures, Dunsby; Mr. Reuben Roberts, Horncastle; Mr. John Searby, Croft; Mr. B. Simons, Willoughby Grange; and Mr. W. B. Swallow, Wootton, Ulceby.

There are very few C.H.B. Shorthorn herds in the county, while it is only here and there the Shorthorn is crossed with the Aberdeen-Angus. The