FIRST SHOW AT GLASGOW. I75 



in the extension of the prizes open for the favourite Ayr- 

 shire breed. Thus it was determined to offer a third prize 

 for the best milk cow, also second and third prizes for the 

 best pair of yearling heifers, together with prizes, first, 

 second, and third, for two-year-old heifers, as well as first, 

 second, and third prizes for the best lots of three milk cows 

 of the Ayrshire breed belonging to the same person. 



In addition to these prizes for breeding cattle, the 

 Society also resolved to offer premiums for the best and 

 second best Clydesdale mares in the counties of Renfrew, 

 Lanark, Stirling, Dumbarton, and Ayr ; and the best and 

 second best three-year-old colt or filly of the same breed in 

 the same districts. This is the first occasion on which the 

 Society offered prizes for horses at any general show. 



A few alterations in the prize list are worthy of 

 remark. For the first time there appears a premium for a 

 cross-bred animal. Ten sovereigns were offered ' for the 

 ox of any breed, crossed with the Shorthorn, showing most 

 symmetry, fat, and weight.' We think it very likely that 

 this premium was suggested by the admirable appearance 

 of the cross between the Shorthorn bull and West-High- 

 land cow exhibited in the previous year by Mr Stirling of 

 Keir. It is to be noted that no premium was offered for 

 either the Fife or Aberdeen or Angus oxen. In place of 

 the prize for oxen of the Angus, Aberdeen, or Fife breeds, 

 a prize was offered ' for the best ox of the Ayrshire breed, 

 between three and six years old.' As regards sheep, a 

 prize was offered for the best pen of five wethers ' of any 

 cross with the blackfaced breed by which the quality of the 

 wool may be improved, without a material falling off of the 

 carcase.' It is to be pointed out that the show took place, 

 not at Christmas, like all that had preceded it, but early in 

 the autumn, being held on 27th September. The Exhibi- 

 tion found accommodation in what was then the new and 

 spacious Market Place, the interior arrangements of which, 

 'by the exertions of the Magistrates, were completed just 

 in time for the show.' 



As may be supposed, the strength of the show lay in 

 the Ayrshire breed. For the prizes for the best Ayrshire 



