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next annual show premiums to the amount of £1000 for 

 encouraging the leading breeds of stock. 



The show at Glasgow in 1844 commenced on Wed- 

 nesday, 7th of August, and the ground was the high green 

 of the King's Park and the Flesher's Park. There were in 

 all 1450 head of stock, being the largest brought forward 

 up to that date at any show of the Society. Of these, no 

 fewer than 558 were cattle, that also being the largest 

 number ever exhibited in that section. Of horses and sheep 

 there were double the numbers of the animals exhibited 

 in these sections at the previous show at Glasgow in 

 1838. The amount awarded in prizes was £1600, being 

 the largest sum yet offered, and more than double what 

 was offered in 1838 at the previous show in Glasgow. Of 

 the 558 entries of cattle, 294 were Ayrshires, 80 West 

 Highlanders, and 71 Shorthorns. To Galloway, Angus, 

 and Aberdeen breeds, prizes were offered only for oxen. 

 There was only one class of the Fife breed, oxen under 

 four years, and only one pair was entered, the exhibitor 

 being David Wallace, Balgrummo, Leven, Fife, 



There was a fair display of Shorthorns. There was 

 only one class for bulls, in which there were twenty-nine 

 entries. The first honour was won by John Hunt, Thorn- 

 ington, Coldstream, with his Guy Faux, second prize in his 

 class at Edinburgh in 1842 ; the second premium went to 

 John Millar of Ballumbie for his Earl of Durham, first prize 

 in the yearling bull class in 1842. The Duke of Buccleuch 

 won the first prize in cows with an animal bred at Dalkeith, 

 the second prize going to England to Sir T. J. De Trafford 

 of Trafford Park, Lancaster. Mr Binning Home of Argaty 

 had at the show three cows bred by Mr Smith, Shidlaw, 

 and purchased by Mr Home in June 1843. The entries 

 also included Sir Thomas Fairfax 2nd 6493, shown by Mr 

 Grant Duff of Eden, and Fitzmaurice 3807, shown by Mr 

 Stewart of Southwick. 



The great feature of the show was the grand display 

 of Ayrshire cattle. There were in all sixt)'-one bulls, forty 

 cows, and the like number of cows in milk, besides nineteen 



