CHAPTER XIX. 



SHOW AT AYR, 1835. 



I\ 1835 the Society held their first and only general show 

 at Ayr. The place of meeting was an enclosure in the 

 Fort, and the date was Friday the 2nd October. Naturally 

 the first place in the prize list was awarded to the Ayrshire 

 breed. Prizes were offered for two classes of bulls, one not 

 under three years nor exceeding six years and ten months 

 old, and the other two years. In the former there were 

 sixteen entries, of which eleven were from the county of 

 Ayr ; two from the county of Lanark, and one each from 

 the county of Stirling, the county of Renfrew, and the 

 county of Dumbarton. The first prize was won by John 

 Baird, Highcross, Old Monkland. In the two-year-old 

 class of bulls there were nineteen entries, seventeen from 

 the county of Ayr, and two from Renfrewshire. The 

 first prize was awarded to John Gray, Tongue, Ayrshire. 

 Thirteen Ayrshire cows were exhibited, ten from the 

 county of Ayr, and one each from Stirling, Lanark, and 

 Dumbarton. The first prize was awarded to William 

 Hunter, Montfod, Ayrshire. In the class of pairs of 

 heifers two years old there were eighteen entries, all from 

 the county of Ayr. The first prize was won by John 

 Findlay, Lyonstone. In the class of quey stirks there were 

 twenty-two entries, all with one exception from Ayrshire, 

 but curiously the only animal entered outside of Ayrshire 

 carried the prize, the winner being John Forrest, Sandy- 

 lands, Lanarkshire. 



Of the Galloway breed only four bulls were entered, 

 one from Wigtownshire and three from Ayrshire. The first 

 premium was won by Wm. Brown, Endrick, Wigtown. In 

 the class of cows there were only four entries, and one of 

 these was not forward. The prize was awarded to Thomas 



