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Highland cattle/^ For a time^ the favoured bull- 

 districts were Lorn, Mull, with the Island of ColL 

 Morven, ^nth Ardnamurchan, Kinj^erloch, and Ard- 

 gower. Then three-year-old queys received prizes as 

 well as bulls ; and when Argyllshire ceased to have 

 a monopoly of the Society's cattle attentions, a prize 

 of ^5 was given to the man, either in that county, 

 Inverness-shire, Perthshire, or Ross-shire, "who 

 spaves most queys with success/^ In 1816, there 

 w^ere prizes for the improvement of work-horseSy 

 and by degrees a distinction was drawn between 

 Clydesdales for heavy and Clevel an ds for lighter land. 

 An attempt to encourage the breeding of chariot 

 horses ended in one pair being shown, and one of 

 them being disqualified for over age. At Kelso the 

 £50 blood-horse competition was nearly as un- 

 satisfactory; Captain Anstruther Thomson and 

 Captain Percy Williams threaded the ranks in vain 

 for anything worthy of the name of a hunter, and 

 so the Clydesdale has slowly and surely swallowed 

 up every other breed. 



Short- wools as well as long- wools were recognized 

 soon after ^16; and the Duke of Athole, Lord Lyne- 

 doch, and Mr. Smith of Methven judged them in 

 Perthshire, with instructions to " have regard both 

 to wool and carcase." Things had ripened by '21 

 into twelve district competitions for " black cattle,'' 

 two for horses, and three for sheep; and Donald 

 Ilorne of Langwell and John Hall of Seiber^s Cross 

 were showing their hands as Cheviot winners. 



