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Keir exhibited a Teeswater ox, for which he was awarded a 

 silver medal. Much curiosity was excited by a litter of 

 pigs, which, being deprived of their mother, were found 

 sucking with avidity cow teats, which had been ingeniously 

 fastened by Duncan M'Millan, the exhibitor, on the lower 

 side of a trough, into which milk was poured. 



The sum drawn for admission to the showyard greatly 

 exceeded expectations, amounting to no less than ^400 19s. 



At the dinner which followed the show, 400 gentlemen 

 were present. The Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, Pre- 

 sident of the Society, was in the chair. The only talk of 

 much consequence at the dinner was about a reaping ma- 

 chine which had been tested that day, but sufficient time 

 had not been allowed to examine it fully. It w^as stated 

 by one of the speakers that the work had been done well, 

 the sheaves being laid down in a neat manner, and that it 

 was perfectly capable of cutting ten or twelve acres a day, 

 with five or six persons to bind or stook. 



