CHAPTER XXVII. 



SHOW AT DUNDEE, 1843, AND FOURTH SHOW 

 AT GLASGOW, 1844. 



The show of the Society in 1843 was held in Dundee, the 

 first and only time in which a meeting of the Society took 

 place there. The exhibition, which was very successful, 

 and took place on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 

 the 8th, 9th, and 10th of August, was held in that part of 

 Dudhope Park immediately behind the Infantry Barracks. 

 In connection with this meeting. Professor Johnston de- 

 livered two lectures in the Watt Institution, Lord Kinnaird 

 in the chair. It was found, however, that the excitement 

 of the showyard and competition generally militated 

 against the attendance at the lectures. 



At this show there were about one hundred Shorthorn 

 entries. There were nineteen aged bulls, ten two-year-olds, 

 and twenty-two yearlings. The first prize in the aged class 

 was won by George A. Grey, Millfield Hill, Northumber- 

 land, with Recruit 4885, bred by Mr Atkinson, Peepy ; 

 the second going to David Hill, Edenhall, Cumberland, for 

 the four-year-old Eden 3689, bred by the Earl of Lonsdale. 

 Both animals were by the same sire, Gainford 2044. In 

 the class were Mr Boswell's Billy 315 1, bred at Ury ; The 

 Toucher 6596, shown jointly by Arthur Harvey of Tilly- 

 greig and Amos Cruickshank, Sittyton, and bred by the 

 Duke of Buccleuch ; Mr Millar's Earl of Durham 5965, 

 first as a yearling at Edinburgh; Buchan Laddie 5814, 

 from Pitfour ; besides bulls shown by Mr Tower of 

 Kinaldie ; Mr Tod, Elphinstone Tower ; Mr Forbes of 

 Blackford, Aberdeenshire, and others. In the two-year-old 

 class, the first premium was won by Nicol Milne of Faldon- 

 side, Roxburgh, with Ethelred 5990, bred by Thomas 

 Crofton, Holywell ; the second prize falling to Mr Watson, 

 Keillor, for a bull bred by himself. In the yearling class, 



