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and was bred by the exhibitor." He was also the bull 

 exhibited by Mr Watson at the show of the Royal Agri- 

 cultural Society of Ireland at Londonderry in 1847, when 

 he gained the first prize. The name under which he was 

 entered at that show was Strathmore ; and the confusion 

 of names is still further increased by it being said in the 

 catalogue that he was after Old Jock this designation 

 having apparently been applied to the various Keillor bulls 

 in the order of seniority. The age of Old Jock is placed 

 beyond dispute by the entries in the show-catalogues. 

 Thus he wins the first prize as a yearling at the High- 

 land Society's show at Dundee in 1843 ; at the Highland 

 Society's show at Inverness in 1846 he is entered as "aged 

 four years and six months ; " at the Royal Irish Society's 

 show at Londonderry in 1847 he is described as having 

 been " calved in March 1842," these three separate entries 

 strictly corresponding on the point of age. 



Old Jock also gained the sweepstakes for bulls at the 

 Perth Highland show in 1852, when he was about eleven 

 years old, although he is entered in the catalogue as four- 

 teen years and four months old. A somewhat noteworthy 

 reference to Old Jock was made in the report of the ' Perth- 

 shire Advertiser' on the show at Perth in 1852. The re- 

 port was evidently from the pen of a gentleman who had 

 acted as a judge at the Londonderry show in 1847, and 

 went on to say : " In the class of old bulls, Mr Watson 

 showed his celebrated bull, Jock, for the sweepstakes ; he 

 being disqualified for competing for the premium, having 

 obtained the Society's first prize at Inverness in 1846. 

 This bull is confessedly the best animal of the polled 

 breed ever exhibited in a showyard. Four years ago, at 

 the meeting of the Irish Agricultural Society at London- 

 derry, we assisted in judging Jock with his competing 

 brethren. He was not only the best bull in his own class, 

 but he stood second for Mr Purcell's 100-guinea cup for 

 the best animal in the showyard ; and it was our opin- 



