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CHAPTER III. 



EARLY PREMIUMS AWARDED BY THE SOCIETY. 

 First Offer of Premiums — Earliest Awards^Linen and Woollen Manufactures 

 — Rearing and Selling 0.\en — Essays and Reports — Cultivating various 

 kinds of Grasses — Potatoes — District Cattle Competitions — Reclamation of 

 Land — Establishment of Local Societies — Implements and Machines — 

 Cultivation of Turnips — Irrigation — Draining — Dairy Produce — Thirlage — 

 Special and Meritorious Services ........ 102 



CHAPTER IV. 



GAELIC LANGUAGE, POETRY, AND MUSIC. 

 Ossian Inquiry and Report — Gaelic Manuscripts Collected by the Society — 

 Deposited in Advocates' Librarj' — Gaelic Dictionary — Its Publication and 

 Dedication to George III. — Votes in connection with Highland Music — 

 Chair of Celtic Language in Edinburgh University . . . . .132 



CHAPTER V. 



AWARDS AT PLOUGHING COMPETITIONS OF THE SOCIETY. 



First and Second Ploughing Matches held in Annandale — Successive Com- 

 petitions — Great attendance of spectators . . . . . . -139 



CHAPTER VI. 



WOODS AND PLANTATIONS. 



Offer of Premiums for raising Osiers and Willows — Premiums for raising 

 greatest extents of Planting, larch or hardwood — Awards — Reports on 

 various estates and districts . . 151 



CHAPTER VII. 



PREMIUMS BEGUN BETWEEN l8l2 AND 182O. 

 Best Managed Farms — Soiling — Sheep Drains — Improving the Quality of 

 Grain — Horses for Agricultural Purposes — Sheep . . . . • ^55 



CHAPTER VIII. 



FIRST GENERAL SHOW, 1822. 

 Increase of Membership of Society — Mr Rennie, yr. of Phantassie, suggests a 

 show of Fat Stock — First General Show — Classification of the Cattle — The 

 Scotch Breeds — Shorthorns — Awards — Good price for best lot . . . 160 



CHAPTER IX. 



SHOWS AT EDINBURGH, 1823-1825. 

 Shmv of 182 J : — Chief Honours to Shorthorns — Prizes to Aberdeenshires — A 

 "Dodded" Ox'— Sheep Prizes. Show of 1824: — Prizes first offered for 

 Store Stock — Prizes first offered for Breeding Stock — Distinguished Visitors 

 — Hea\y Oxen — Large Prices — Small competition in Store Slock except 

 Galloways — Inferior show of cows, except cows bred in England — The bull 

 Jerr)' — Prize Sheep from Perthshire and Inverness-shire — Weighty Mutton 

 — First Display of Implements — The Scottish Farmer now giving attention 

 to Live Stock. Show of 182^ : — Mr Wilson's Shorthorns — .Shorthorn Bulls 

 — Hea\-y Oxen from Keith-hall, F'etteresso, Keir, Blair-Drummond, Menzies, 

 and Dunearn — Premiums first offered for Shorthorn Heifers find no entries 

 — Galloway and West Highland Heifers — Boars exhibited, but ineligible 

 because not bred in Scotland — This restriction removed — " Practical Judges" 

 — Exhibition of Implements, Seeds, and Roots 164 



