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aged and }-carling ; and for cows and heifers. Only one 

 animal appeared in each of the four classes — two of them, 

 the aged bull and heifer, being shown by Alexander Keith, 

 Netherthird. 



The show of Ayrshires was very small. The prize for 

 best aged bull was given to Arch. Macintyre, Dunallan; in 

 two-year-old class to Alex. Forbes, Beechwood, Inverness ; 

 and for best cow to Dr J. Inglis Nicol, Campfield, Inverness. 



For the first time, prizes were offered for cross-bred 

 oxen. The result was not encouraging. In two of the 

 classes there was ' no entry.' In the classes of extra stock, 

 there appeared in the section for Aberdeen and Angus 

 Polled a two-year-old heifer, bred by William M'Combie, 

 Tillyfour, and shown by Robert Scott, Balwyllo. 



In the horse class, the first prize for stallions above 

 four years went to Joseph Skea, Aberdeen, and the second 

 to William Wilson, Whiteside, Alford, with Blyth 80, an 

 animal bred by Robert Simpson of Cobairdy ; and for the 

 best entire colt, to Robert Wilson, Brangan, Portsoy. 

 Prizes were also carried in the horse classes by Robert 

 Gentle, Dell ; William Hay, Shethin ; Alex. Cruickshank, 

 Pluscarden ; the Duke of Sutherland, and Lord Lovat. 



The sheep classes were poorly filled. The first prize 

 aged Blackfaced tup was shown by A. H. Mitchelson, Old 

 Faskally, Pitlochry. The leading prizes in Cheviots were 

 won by Donald Home of Langwell, and Alexander Craig, 

 Kirkton, Sutherland. In Leicesters, the prizes went to 

 Keillor, Gordon Castle, Thomas Watson. Esperston, East 

 Lothian ; David Wallace, Balgrummo ; Hugh Fraser, 

 Balloch ; and John Wallace, Banbeath. 



Of horses in the extra class, the Judges commended a 

 Highland pony mare, of the extraordinary age of thirty 

 years and four months, with her twentieth foal, the pro- 

 perty of Daniel Gilchrist of Ospisdale, Sutherland. 



Among the extra stock exhibited at the show was a 

 grotesque little animal, a ' specimen of the old dwarf High- 

 land cow, which one would suppose was only suited for 

 giving milk to the fairies ; while beside her stood a little 

 grey hump-backed Chinese cow, exhibited by Provost 



