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ibi- increased protluctiou at less cost, nothing conlcl conduce more to the benefit of 

 ag^rituilture in general, and to the Higldand Society as rcpri'seuting the agrienlture of 

 Scotland, than a suflli-ii'iit show of agricidtnral iniidenients. Tliercfore, if there was 

 any way in which the directors conld meet the views of Mr Greig, they were most 

 willing to do so. 'I'lic directors thouglit that iierhajis the addition of seven or eight 

 names" all of imi>lenient makers or manufacturers, would perhaps make the committee 

 rather large ; Imt having understood from Mr CJreig that the society wliich he repre- 

 sented would lie quite willing to accept three or four members, thi^ directors jiroposed 

 to meet him or a dejiutation Irom the society next morning to eonsidt as to the adding 

 of three or four im]ileiiient niakei's to the committee. 



Galloway a>.-d Anous 11 khd-books. — Mr Guaham, Parcelstown, moved — " Tliat 

 the ride 18, regarding Shorthorns, be also apjilied to Galloways, also to Angus or Aber- 

 deen, if breeders of Angus or Aberdeen cattle wish it." He proposed that Galloway 

 cattle eligible for conqietition should be entered in the (ialloway herd-book. Thei'e 

 was an animal exhibited at this show which it was dillicult for any person to say what 

 breed it belonged to. Even at the Roy.al Show at Kilburn there was a three-yearold 

 heifer which had eight broad teeth, winch in ordinary circumstances meant five years 

 old. Now, if animals entered in the herd-book were only eligiljle for exhibition, there 

 would be mnch less liability to deception either as to age or otherwise. 



The Chairman said— perhaps the only objection to the motion was that it was rather 

 premature, as the herd-book was rather new. It might be a hardship to some who 

 conld show .animals not entered in the herd-book. The motion might be postponed for 

 a little while in order to allow e.xhiVntors to enter, and then a sutHciently .strong repre- 

 sentation .should be made to show that it was the general wish of the exhibitors. 



Mr Graham said the herd-book was not new, and that it had existed for sixrteen 

 years. 



The subiectthen dropped. 



JuDorNG Rings.— The Chairman read the following motion, given notice of by Lord 

 Arthnr t'ccil :— " That, in the opinion of this meeting, proper and substantial .indging 

 rings slionld be provided for the various classes, both of horses and cattle ; and that the 

 ilirectors are requested to arrange that at future shows snch rings are substituted for 

 the ropes liitherto used." 



Lord Arthur Cecil said— that as the hint given in his motion had been .substantially 

 adopted at this .show, he took the liberty of w-ithdrawing his motion. 



Hki'orts of Committees. — The progi-.amnie having been gone through, a cordial vote 

 of thanks was awarded to the chairman for presiding, on the motion of Lord Tolwarth. 



As the meetiiig was separating, 



Mr J. M. Martin, jt. of Anchendennan,rose and asked that he might be kindly allowed 

 to Y>\\t a question. It would be in the memory of many present that two committees 

 were appointed at the January meeting — one upon circuit .shows, and the other upon 

 the Transactions of the Society. His motion was that a committee should be appointed 

 to report to the meeting in June, but he was told that six months was too short, and 

 that it would be necessary to adjourn the report to the meeting in January. So far as 

 he was aware, that committee liad not met to the present day. They did him the 

 honour to make him a memljer of that committee, but he had not been asked to attend 

 a meeting. The other connnittee was in the same condition. 



The Chairman said that the chairman of the committee had left the room, and he 

 was not in a position to answer the question. 



The meeting then separated. 



GENERAL MEETING, 21st JANUARY 1880. 

 Most Noble thk Marquis of Lothian, K.T., President, in the chair. 



New Members. — Sixty-four new members were balloted for ami elected. 



New Office-Bearers". — The following noblemen and gentlemen were elected to fdl 

 the vacancies in the list of oflice-bearei's -.— Vice Premdentx— 'Earl of Haddington, Earl 

 of Wemyss and March, Lord Naiiier and Ettrick, K.T., Lord Reay. OnUnarii Directws 

 —Lord Arthnr Cecil, Orchard Mains; Sir Hew Dalrymple of North Ber^\ick, Bart. ; 

 James Cunningham, Tarbreoch ; John Scott Dudgeon, Longnewton ; John Forman, 

 Dimcrahill ; R. II. Harris, Earnhill ; William Eliott Lockhart of Borthwickbrae ; 

 David R. Williamson of Lawers. Extraordinary Directors— hord Elcho, M.P. ; Hon. 

 Henry Constable Maxwell-Stuart of Traquair ; Su- Robert Hay of Haystonne, Bart. ; 

 Sir William Scott of Ancrum, Bart. ; Sir George H. Scott Douglas of Simngwood Park, 

 Bart., M.P. ; Sir Dudlev Coutts Marjoribanks of Guisachan, Bart., M.P. ; Dand Milne 

 Home of Milne-Graden, Colin J. Mackenzie of Portmore, James Smith, C^iief Jlagis- 

 trate of Kelso ; Ai-chibald Campbell Swinton of Kimmerghame. 



