402 THE BREED IN THE SHOW- YARD. 



Prince Albert of Baads 1336, first winner at Perth, 

 Kelso, and Carlisle in 1879 and 1880. These two 

 bulls have been the best looking of modern show-yard 

 polled males at anyrate. Gainsborough 596, in virtue 

 of his symmetry and quality, won at Inverness over the 

 much heavier aged bulls John Bright 642 and Scotsman 

 474. While on the same principle Mr Scott's Bluebeard 

 468, from Easter Tulloch, won rightly enough in the 

 two-year-old class. 



"At the Glasgow Highland show in 1875 there was 

 a select if not not a large display of the northern polls. 

 The Marquis of Huntly's Westertown bred Duke of Perth 

 357, and Sir George Macpherson-Grant's Tillyfour bred 

 Scotsman 474, were the only combatants in the aged 

 bull class, and a protracted engagement they had. 

 Scotsman was the bigger and the fatter of the two, and 

 his head and neck, barring the objectionable ' scurs/ were 

 decidedly better than his rival possessed. The Duke, on 

 the other hand, had better symmetry and quality, with 

 great neatness over the loin and hind quarter. Still the 

 size, substance, and gayer head of Scotsman impressed 

 themselves favourably on Mr Bowie, who, however, 

 eventually gave way to Mr Ferguson and Mr Mackessack, 

 and after nearly an hour's tussle the award was in favour 

 of the Aboyne bull. Scotsman went from that show 

 to the butcher, and the Duke returned to some years of 

 useful service in Lord Huntly's herd. 



"Young Viscount 736, in a fairly good class of two- 

 year-olds, looking compact and shapely, though less 

 striking than he afterwards appeared, was a clear first. 

 Sir Thomas Gladstone's Adrian 2nd 622, of handsome 

 proportions but rather hard hair, stood second, and was 

 then transferred to Mr Skinner's herd at Drumin, where 

 he begot several prize winners. In the yearling bull 

 class Lord Fife's Erica bull St Glair 1160, sired by 

 Palmerston 374, the first-prize bull at the Highland 



