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Prizes were also offered for the best bull, cow, heifer, 

 and ox of the ' Aberdeenshire Horned breed,' but, one says 

 it with regret, for these four classes not one single entry was 

 made. This circumstance seems to indicate that the Aber- 

 deenshire Horned breed were not bred to any extent out- 

 side of Aberdeenshire, and the adjacent counties. Similar 

 prizes were offered for the 'Aberdeenshire Polled breed.' No 

 entries of oxen were made of this breed, but a few entries 

 were made in the class of bulls and heifers, and with 

 one entry in the section of cows. There were two bulls, 

 one by Peter Brown, Linkwood, Elginshire, the other by 

 Major Forbes Mackenzie of Fodderty, Cromarty. The 

 prize was awarded to Mr Brown's bull, which was bred by 

 Mr Robinson, Mains of Eden, near Banff. This is the same 

 gentleman who also held the farm of Corskie, near Banff, on 

 the estate of the Earl of Fife, so that this animal, the second 

 Polled bull to carry a prize at a Highland Society's show, 

 may be held as belonging to the Corskie tribe of Polled 

 cattle. Major Mackenzie's bull was bred by William Alex- 

 ander, Straloch, Aberdeenshire. The single cow was shown 

 by Major Forbes Mackenzie, and was bred by Mr Aberdeen, 

 farmer, in the parish of Skene, Aberdeenshire. Four heifers 

 of the breed were shown, the whole of them from Mr 

 Brown's farm at Linkwood, and they were all bred by the 

 exhibitor. In the ' Galloway breed,' prizes were offered for 

 bull, cow, heifer, and ox. There was a pretty fair muster 

 of the breed, but the exhibitors were not numerous. In 

 fact, there were only three exhibitors — Jas. Bain, Antfield, 

 Inverness, who exhibited a bull ; the Duke of Gordon, who 

 exhibited a bull and an ox ; the other and the chief exhibi- 

 tor being Alexander Craig, Kirkton, Sutherland, who ex- 

 hibited two bulls, and who sent all the animals, five in 

 number, entered for the cow premium, and the three ani- 

 mals entered for the heifer premium, together with five 

 animals entered for the ox premium. Mr Craig's cattle 

 were all bred to himself, except one of the cows, which was 

 bred by the Duke of Gordon. The prizes all went to Mr 

 Craig, except that for the bull, which was won by the Duke 

 of Gordon with an animal bred at Gordon Castle. The 



