102 PIELD AND FERX. 



three-year-old classes were a sort of peaceful duel be- 

 tween the two brothers-in-law, as they had the com- 

 petition all to themselves, except in one class, where 

 Mr. Eraser of Brackla, a well-known Nairnshire 

 feeder, was second to Mr. Harris's pair, which 

 contained the crack bullock of the day. It might 

 have been led to the shambles, as within living me- 

 mory many an ox of far smaller pretensions has been, 

 bedecked with ribbons and preceded or ridden by a 

 piper, seeing that it produced for society eighteen 

 hundred and ninety pounds of beef and 264 pounds 

 of tallow. Four out of the ten in Mr. Harris's win- 

 ning lot were black polled, one grey and the rest red 

 and white crosses ; while the Grange Green ten were 

 all black polled. Then curiously enough, in the lots 

 of six, Grange Green, w^th its red and white crosses, 

 turned the tables on to the Earnhill polls. Mitchell 

 of Wester Alves, Ross of Hill Head, Ferguson of East 

 Grange, Tew of Teaninich, Smith of Minmore, and 

 Garden of Netherton, were among the winners on 

 this December day, when one hundred and eleven 

 beasts were in the ranks, and the Morayshire Farm- 

 ers 3 Club and the Forres Fat Show fairly joined hands 

 with Mr. Hall Maxwell as witness. 



Sir A. P. Gordon Gumming of Altyre was also 

 among the prize-takers. The baronet, who resides 

 within three or four miles from Forres, rears about 

 fifty young cattle, West Highland and cross-bred> 

 annually, and feeds oft 7 the same number, besides 

 keeping a flock of three hundred half-bred ewes. He 



