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the effect of this restriction, which, it will be recollected, 

 operated against Mr Rennie obtaining the prize for Short- 

 horn cows at the show in 1824, the Committee suggested 

 that the regulation should be altered ' with reference to all 

 breeding stock.' Effect was given to the suggestion at all 

 subsequent competitions. It is noted, in connection with 

 this show, that ]\Ir Stuart of Dunearn sold two Fife oxen 

 for sixty guineas. The two Galloway heifers above men- 

 tioned he sold for ^60, and two oxen bred in Ross-shire 

 for £'/0. A notice of this show mentions the following 

 gentlemen as the ' practical judges,' to whom the Society 

 and Committee and public were much indebted for the 

 trouble they had taken : Lord Tweeddale ; Captain Barclay 

 of Ury ; Mr CuUey, Coupland Castle ; Mr Lome Campbell, 

 Roseneath ; ]Mr Gulland of Stripeside ; Mr Inches, Cardean ; 

 Mr William Plummer, Dalkeith ; and Mr Hugh Watson, 

 Keillor. It is noted that two Russian noblemen attended 

 the showyard in the forenoon, and appeared to be much 

 interested. 



On this occasion, the Society had an exhibition of 

 improved implements of husbandr)- and of roots and seeds 

 for agricultural purposes. Xo prizes were given, but the 

 exhibition was viewed with much interest. The seeds were 

 shown by ^Messrs LaA\"son & Son, and ^Messrs Cormack, 

 Son, & Sinclair of London ; while various landowners and 

 farmers exhibited roots and r}-egrass, Sir John Buchan 

 Hepburn showing some mangel-wurzel, with an account of 

 its quality. 



