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which had for sire Berwickshire, dam by Robin Hood, 

 bred by Mr Rennie, Phantassie ; (6) one by Thos. Jopling, 

 Castlelaw, The Chief 5425 ; (7) one by John Nisbet, Rum- 

 bleton, which was got by Hogarth's bull ; (8) one by 

 Andrew Park, Birkenside ; and (9) one by John Wilson of 

 Cumledge, got by Borderer, dam by George 2057. 



Bulls from Mid-Lothian were shown by Thomas Ferme, 

 Braidwood, bred by Mr Hutton, near Northallerton, York- 

 shire, his sire Matchem ; and by John Proudfoot, Inveresk, 

 bred by the Duke of Buccleuch, descended from North Star. 



The bull from Aberdeenshire was exhibited by Fergu- 

 son Simpson, Pitfour, and was the same animal, Buchan 

 Hero, which carried the first prize in the yearling class in 

 the show at Aberdeen the previous year. The judges again 

 awarded this bull the first premium, and it was no small 

 honour to a tenant farmer in the far North of Scotland that 

 he should have won the highest premium ever given by the 

 Highland Society for a Shorthorn bull in a competition 

 open to the whole kingdom at so early a stage in the his- 

 tory of shows and of the diffusion of the breed. Mr Ste- 

 phens, editor of the 'Quarterly Journal of Agriculture,' in 

 his notice of the show does not speak very highly of the 

 first prize bull. He says ' Buchan Hero, though a good 

 animal, was certainly not of that high quality which a pre- 

 mium of iJ"ioo might have tempted a breeder to enter for 

 competition. He was in useful condition, and evidently 

 had not been fed up for the show. He was, moreover, of 

 true blood, which was no doubt the inducement for Messrs 

 Tempest and Whitaker, Yorkshire, to give ;^200 for him.' 

 The second prize was won by Thomas Howey, Lilburn 

 Grange ; and the animal next in merit belonged to Mr 

 Hood, Pathhead. 



We have noticed the absence of the two bulls entered 

 from Yorkshire, and it was stated freely at the show, by 

 those who had seen these animals in England, that they 

 considered them to be better than any bull on the ground. 

 They were subsequently sold by their owners — Sir Thomas 

 Fairfax for 150 guineas, and Clementi for 155 guineas. 



In the class of yearling bulls, there were sixteen exhi- 



