CHAPTER XI. 



SHOWS OF 1827 AND 1828. 



In 1827 the Society was back at Edinburgh. The example 

 set by the Magistrates of Glasgow in voting a sum of 

 money to the Society was not without its influence on the 

 Magistrates of the capital, for we find that the Lord 

 Provost and Magistrates had placed at the disposal of the 

 Society a sum of one hundred sovereigns. The show was 

 fixed for the 5th December, and the place of meeting was, 

 not the area behind Queensberry House, but the spacious 

 premises belonging to the Portable Gas Company at Tan- 

 field on the Warriston Road. The premiums offered 

 were liberal, amounting in all to £224. Of this sum £6^ 

 was allocated to Shorthorns for breeding purposes. For 

 the first time the Society offered three premiums for 

 Shorthorn bulls of ;^25, ^15, and £10 ; and two premiums 

 of ^10 and £$ for the best two heifers of the Shorthorn 

 breed not exceeding twenty months old. It was con- 

 ditioned that exhibitors of bulls for the prizes should be 

 prepared to let out the animals for season 1828 for service 

 in Scotland, provided the sum of ;i^50 was offered for hire. 

 Before speaking of the stock, we may mention that the 

 judges were Mr Barclay of Ury ; and Mr Heriot, 

 Ladykirk, both of them breeders, and good judges of 

 Shorthorns, the other judges being Mr Lome Campbell, 

 Roseneath ; Mr Thomson, Bogend ; and Mr Smith of 

 Budale. The premiums for Shorthorns were open to Eng- 

 land and Ireland, but the animals shown were all exhibited 

 by Scotch agriculturists. 



For the premiums offered for Shorthorn bulls, eleven 

 entries were made. As this is the first exhibition of the 

 Society at which premiums were offered for Shorthorn bulls, 

 it may be interesting to mention in some detail the animals 



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