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lie carried the special prizes as best male and female in 

 Smithfield ; while for the 100 guinea champion plate 

 the contest ultimately lay solely between these two 

 beautiful animals, the heifer having been at last pre- 

 ferred. That unexampled performance in the Smithfield 

 show history redounded to Mr Walker's credit, and also 

 to the credit of the early maturing and splendid flesh- 

 forming properties of the polled breed." 



Performances at French Exhibitions. 



In France the polled cattle of the North-East of Scot- 

 land have on four notable occasions displayed their 

 superiority over most other breeds at the International 

 Exhibitions at Paris in 1856, 1862, and 1878, and at 

 Poissy in 1857. In reference to the Exhibitions of 1 8 5 6 

 and 1857, we have been favoured with some very useful 

 notes from the able and facile pen of M. F. E. de la 

 Trehonnais, the well-known agricultural authority, who, 

 by his valuable work, entitled Revue Agricole de 

 TAngleterre, and by other means, has done much to 

 make his countrymen acquainted with agricultural 

 progress in the British Isles, more particularly in regard 

 to live-stock matters. At the first International Exhi- 

 bition at Paris in 1855, no polled cattle were shown 

 from this country, but one bull of the Aberdeen or 

 Angus breed was exhibited by Mons. Dutrone, who was 

 for many years a passionate advocate of polled cattle, 

 and who never lost an opportunity of extolling the 

 virtues of the northern Scotch polls. The bull he 

 exhibited in 1855, which was awarded a premium, was 

 Monk 149, bred by Sir James Carnegie, got by Balna- 

 moon 36, and out of Meg 708. 



The Exhibition of 1856 was carried out on a liberal 

 scale. In regard to it M. Trehonnais says : " It was a 

 happy thought, for in my long recollection of similar 



