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place of meeting was the King's Park. The premiums 

 offered comprehended moderate sums in the shape of prizes 

 for Shorthorns. The prize for best bull was twenty sove- 

 reigns, and for the second best ten sovereigns. Prizes were 

 also offered for cows and two-year-old heifers of the breed. 

 No prizes were offered for breeding stock of any other class 

 except the Ayrshire and West Highlanders. Premiums 

 were offered for oxen of the Polled, Fife, Aberdeenshire 

 Horned, and any other breed. 



Eleven Shorthorn bulls were exhibited, the competitors 

 being David Dr}sdale, King of Muirs, Clackmannanshire ; 

 \Vm. Duncan, near Haddington ; David L. Jolly, Grange 

 of Elcho ; John Moubray of Cambus ; \Vm. Ramsay of 

 Barnton ; John Ritchie, Cultmalundie, Perthshire ; Thomas 

 Ritchie, Bowhouse, Clackmannan ; Archibald Stirling of 

 Keir ; Robert Walker. Ferr}-gate ; and A. M. Welwood of 

 Pitfur, Fifeshire. The first prize was awarded to Mr 

 Dr}-sdale for a bull three and a half years old, bred by I\Ir 

 Moubray of Cambus ; and the second to ^Ir Duncan, near 

 Haddington, for a bull bred by himself Respecting the 

 other animals, we may notice that one of the bulls shown 

 by Mr Moubray was bred b}- Mr Grey, Millfield Hill, and 

 Mr Welwood's was bred by ^Ir Heriot, Ladykirk. In the 

 cow section there was a large display, there being fifteen 

 animals exhibited. The Duke of Buccleuch exhibited one; 

 Mr Moubray five ; Mr Stirling of Keir three ; while two 

 were shown by ^Ir Andrew Bannerman of Tullibardine, 

 Perthshire ; one by Mr ^lorris, Tinian, Fifeshire ; one by 

 Mr Ritchie. Bowhouse ; one by Mr Walker, Ferrygate ; and 

 one by Mr Dudgeon, Humbie. The Duke of Buccleuch's 

 cow was bred b}- Mr Robertson of Lad}-kirk ; two of Mr 

 Moubray's were bred by ]\Ir Grey, Millfield Hill ; and one of 

 the other two by Mr Bell, South Linton. Mr Ritchie's cow 

 was bred by Mr Wetherell, Yorkshire. The first prize was 

 gained by Mr Moubray of Cambus, and the second prize 

 by the Duke of Buccleuch. Of two-year-old heifers, there 

 were only four entries, three of them being by Mr Moubray 

 of Cambus, and bred by himself, and the fourth by Mr 

 Ritchie, Bowhouse. A contemporary notice of the show 



