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Alexander Geekie of Baldowrie won the single prize offered 

 with Strathmore 6547, bred by himself. The young class 

 was particularly strong. It included, amongst others, Mr 

 Boswcll's Young Holkar, son of Mr Grant Duff's Holkar 

 4041 ; Mr Cruickshank's Premier 6308, a son of Mr Bar- 

 clay's Mahomed ; two bulls from Monyruy, two from the 

 Duke of Buccleuch, and one from Keillor, bred there out 

 of Ranunculus by Conservative 1865. The first prize cow 

 was Playful, bred by John Parkinson, Leyfields, Notts, and 

 shown by Lewis Crombic, Kirkhill ; the second going to 

 John Millar of Ballumbie. The class comprised three 

 entries from Baldowrie, two being purchased from Ury ; 

 one entry each from Sittyton, the Duke of Buccleuch, 

 Monyruy, Pitfour, and Keillor. The last was a cow bred 

 by John Kirkham, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, and purchased 

 from him by Mr Watson in 1839. The prize in the class 

 of pairs of cows was won by the Duke of Buccleuch with 

 animals bred by his Grace. Sittyton had good success in 

 the heifer classes ; Mr Cruickshank winning the first prize 

 in the two-year-old class, where a pair were required to be 

 shown, and the first prize in the yearling class. Of his pair, 

 one was his Lady Picton, shown as a yearling at Edinburgh, 

 and the other Dahlia, bred by Christopher Coates, York- 

 shire. The second prize in the two-year-olds fell to Mr 

 VVatson, Keillor, for a full sister of his second prize bull. 

 It is curious to find at this show so many evidences that 

 the great breeder of Polled Angus was at the same time a 

 breeder and successful exhibitor of Shorthorns. 



Mr Watson had not more than his own share of the 

 honours in the Polled classes at Dundee. The first prize 

 for aged bulls was won by William Fullerton, Mains of 

 Ardovie, Forfarshire, with Panmure 51, bred by Lord 

 Panmure, and purchased from his lordship in October 1841. 

 The second prize in the class was carried by Alexander 

 Ronaldson, Little Gight, Aberdeenshire, with an animal 

 bred by Robert Walker, Montbletton, and purchased by 

 Mr Ronaldson from Mr Prott, Meikle Colp. The exhibi- 

 tors in the class included Sir Thomas Burnett, Sir James 

 Carnegie, Robert Adamson, Middle Drums, Forfarshire ; 



