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the winning pairs were drawn and placed for tlie 

 Plate. Both cattle and sheep mustered stronger 

 than ever in '24, when a West Highland ox made 

 lis. per stone,, and an 160-stone ox arrived in a van. 

 Well might an Edinburgh paper ^'^not wish to boast^^ ; 

 ^' but yet we have no hesitation in expressing our wil- 

 lingness to compare notes with our friends at Smith- 

 field.^^ 



Store cattle had been admitted the previous year, 

 but even that advance and the opening of the classes 

 to England and Ireland did not help the show in ^25 

 (at which Mr. Stirling's Shorthorn- West-Highland 

 played first part), and in the following year it 

 was determined to talve it to Glasgow, and have 

 classes for horses as well. Change of scene brought 

 with it a complete revival. The Duke of Montrose 

 kept up the honour of the district with his oxen 

 Romulus and Riva, and nineteen Clydesdale brood 

 mares were in the ranks. Glasgow has always stood 

 highest in the entries. In its ^44 show there were 558 

 cattle, in its '57 show 240 horses and 112 swine, and 

 it has only been beaten by Berwick-on- Tweed in 

 ^54, and Edinburgh in '48, for top place with the 

 sheep. 



The first decided symptom of the impetus which 

 had been given might be seen in the announce- 

 ment that the Highland Society were directing 

 their attention to the habit of letting bulls and 

 rams, and that "all who had paid attention to 

 the selection of individual animals, native or im- 



