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Kelso battle over again, with a different result. The 

 former, not having been so fat and so sweet-looking as 

 the latter, lost his place ; but had his advocates for the 

 first premium, although the extraordinary quality and 

 the grand out-bringing of Justice left little or no room 

 for cavil. Knight of the Shire 1699, by this time the 

 property of Messrs Auld & Anderson at 145 guineas, 

 kept his place in the two-year-old class, and looked 

 compact and handsome. Mr M'Combie of Easter Skene 

 had decidedly the best yearling bull in the out-coming 

 specimen of that fine old herd. The cow class was not 

 popularly judged. The Ballindalloch cow Maid of Aven 

 2995, placed first, had a beautiful skin, and looked her 

 best, but her shoulders were rather prominent to win in 

 such company as Lord Tweedmouth's Pride 18th 4321, 

 of Tillfour descent. This three-year-old, which cost 160 

 guineas at Mr Adamson's sale the previous April, and 

 was second to Pavilion at Carlisle and Kelso in 1880, 

 was generally regarded as the best in the cow class at 

 Stirling, although only placed third. The writer certainly 

 considered her the best, with possibly a little to spare. 

 Lord Airlie's Kelso yearling Miranda 4204 improved in 

 the interval, and was clearly abreast of her opponents in 

 the two-year-old class at Stirling. The yearling heifer 

 from Glamis, a 110 guinea purchase at Mr Adamson's 

 sale, and daughter of Sybil 2nd, was handsome, but too 

 thick in the skin. I liked better the second heifer from 

 Kinnaird Castle, Essence 4547, a very sweet Erica, that 

 by a good judicial bench at the Forfarshire show a week 

 afterwards was placed before the Glamis heifer. So 

 much for the diversity of opinion among judges. 



" In the leading national fat shows, as well as in 

 breeding stock exhibitions, Scotch breeders and feeders 

 of polled cattle have during the last twenty years done 

 much to bring their cherished variety into popular favour. 

 In 1867 the late Mr M'Combie occasioned no little 



