THIRD SHOW AT DUMFRIES, 1 845. 28/ 



The prizes for West Highlanders and Angus cattle were 

 only for oxen. 



In the Galloways, the Duke of Buccleuch carried the 

 first prize with a bull purchased from ]\Ir Grierson, Bishop- 

 ton ; the first prize for pairs of cows was won by James 

 Gillespie, Annanbank, Moffat ; the prize in the single cow 

 class being carried by the Duke of Buccleuch. John 

 Palmer, Hallflatt, Scaleby, Carlisle, had a considerable 

 number of entries. John Halliday, Moloch, had first prize 

 in pairs of heifers. 



The first prize Shorthorn, a son of Locomotive 4242, 

 was shown by C. W. Harvey, Walton, near Liverpool ; the 

 second prize, a son of Bates's 2nd Duke of Northumberland, 

 was exhibited by William Jobson, Chillingham. Mr Car- 

 ruthers of Dormont, Dumfriesshire, exhibited many entries, 

 and was pretty successful, gaining the first prizes in the 

 cows, and in both the heifer classes. In Ayrshires, the 

 first prize aged bull was shown by Geo. Lorimer, Kirkland, 

 near Sanquhar; and the first yearling bull by J as. Grierson, 

 Morton Mains, Thornhill ; and the first prize cow was 

 shown by Wm. Young Herries of Spottes, Castle-Douglas. 

 The first prize in the West Highland oxen was won by Mr 

 Stirling of Keir. 



The receipts for admission and for catalogues amounted 

 to ;^440 1 8s. II d. 



The dinner which followed the show was presided over 

 by the Duke of Montrose, and about 1000 gentlemen were 

 present. The number included the Duke of Buccleuch, 

 the Marquis of Queensberr>-, the Earl of Selkirk, the Earl 

 of Traquair, Sir J. H. Maxwell, Mr Hope Johnstone, 

 M.P., Sir David Maxwell, Mr IVlaxwell of Nithsdale, ]\Ir 

 Maxwell of Terregles. A discussion took place about 

 drainage, in the course of which Mr Dudgeon, Spylaw, 

 said he had in the past three years drained nearly 600 

 acres, and laid down one million of tiles and soles. 



In 1845, the Society lost the services of Sir Charles 

 Gordon, who had been Secretary for thirty years. After a 

 short interval, during which Mr Stodart Macdonald acted 



