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exhibited. Adam Bogue of Woodhall showed two bulls, 

 one bred by himself, got by Mr Rennie's bull Snawdon ; 

 the other, bred at Woodhall, and got by a grandson of Comet. 

 Andrew Somerville, Athelstaneford Mains, showed a bull 

 bred by ]\Ir Rennie of Phantassie, got by Satellite (1420), 

 dam bred by Mr Robertson of Ladykirk, got by Barmpton 

 (54). David Murray, Legerwood, Earlston, showed a bull 

 bred by Mr Johnston of Mountsan, of which no pedigree 

 was furnished. James Dickson, Edinburgh, showed the 

 bull Pizarro, bred by John Hunt, Thornington, having for 

 sire the Coupland bull, his dam being Countess by a son of 

 Robert Colling's Minor (441). John Wilson of Cumledge, 

 near Dunse, showed a bull bred by himself, got by a bull 

 bred by Edward Smith of Marldown, Durham, the dam 

 being by a son of W^ellington (679). James Wilson, from 

 near Dunse, showed a bull bred by the late Abraham 

 Wilson, sire Diamond, the dam by Wellington. John 

 Rennie, now described as of Linton, exhibited a bull bred 

 at Ladykirk, sire Memnon (12 18), out of Nekeiah by Dia- 

 mond, yir P. Turnbull, Crooks, showed a bull bred by him- 

 self, having for sire Arthur by Northern Light by North 

 Star (458), dam by Wellington. Thos. Walker, Reddles- 

 ton Hill, near Kelso, showed a bull bred by Mr Pringle, 

 Kerse Mains, sire Sultan, a bull bred by Mr Jobson of 

 Newton. John Watson, Craigmillar, near Edinburgh, 

 showed a bull bred by himself, having for sire Leopold by 

 Lionel, and for dam a cow belonging to Robert Dale, 

 Liberton. It will be observed that the whole of these bulls 

 belonged to exhibitors resident on the south and east of 

 Edinburgh, many of them from the neighbourhood of 

 Dunse. The judges awarded the first prize to Mr Rennie's 

 bull ; the second prize to Mr Somerville's bull, and the third 

 prize to the bull shown by Mr Turnbull. It will be noticed 

 that all three are of good pedigree. 



While the gentlemen who exhibited them had evidently 

 in these bulls first class blood, it does not appear that many 

 of them had kept pure Shorthorn stocks. At all events, 

 for the Society's premiums for pairs of Shorthorn heifers 

 under twenty months, there were only two entries, both by 



