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classification according to ages — a recommendation to 

 which effect was given at the next show at Glasgow, when 

 there were three classes for filHes. 



Of Leicester sheep there was a large show. The first 

 aged tup was shown b)' Thomas Cockburn, Sisterpath ; 

 and the first prize shearling b}' William Smith, New Lear- 

 month, Coldstream. Of this section the judges remarked 

 that many breeders who exhibited had ' deviated from the 

 true character of Leicester sheep by attempting to attain a 

 large size and great weight of wool, so much so that, at the 

 English Agricultural Society's show at Newcastle two years 

 since, the larger proportion of such animals would have 

 been classed as " long-woolled sheep," and not as Leicester.' 

 Of Cheviots, in point of quality, the show was superior to 

 that of any former occasion. James Brydon, Moodlaw, 

 showed the first prize aged tup ; John Dodd, Catcleuch, the 

 first prize shearling ; and T. C. Borthwick of Hopsrig the 

 best pen of ewes. In Blackfaced sheep the premiums went 

 to David Foyer, Knowehead, Stirling, and Adam Blacklock, 

 Minnygap, Moffat. The judges remarked that they could 

 not speak favourably of the Blackfaced as a class, and they 

 added that improvement was not to be expected till as 

 much attention was paid to Blackfaced as to Cheviots. Of 

 Southdowns there was a fair display. The Duke of Rich- 

 mond carried the prizes in the classes both of tups and 

 ewes. In Southdowns the Duke of Richmond was first for 

 tups, shearling tups, and ewes. 



The Society's official report notices that, ' In the im- 

 plement department, James Wilkie & Co., Uddingston, 

 Glasgow, exhibited a curious and interesting relic of " sixty 

 years since," an old two-horse swing plough, supposed to 

 be the veritable original and first iron plough that was 

 made in Scotland — the maker's name, William Allan, 

 Bellshill, Glasgow. The appearance of this somewhat 

 ancient implement carried the truth in the face of it. 

 The assemblage and mode of fixing the parts resemble 

 so entirely the structure of the old wooden ploughs, 

 that no doubt need remain of the authenticity of this 

 relic' 



