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Cashley, Glenlyon ; and Messrs Stewart, Invermeran, Fort- 

 ingal. The prizes for cows and heifers were shared by 

 Mr Malcolm of Poltalloch, the Marquis of Breadalbane, 

 and Donald M'Laren, Brae-Leny, Callander. The official 

 report of the show says that ' the exhibition of aged bulls 

 was not nearly so good as might have been expected in the 

 district in which the show was held, the animals wanting 

 both symmetry and high breeding, and many were coarse 

 and inferior. The two-year-olds were better than the aged 

 bulls, there being some fair specimens ; but even the best 

 of them wanted size and growth, and their number, besides, 

 was limited beyond expectation. It is questionable whether 

 there ought to be a premium for yearling West Highland 

 bulls, as at that age their points are not developed, and it 

 is difficult to tell how they may turn out. One pen of cows 

 was good, and well bred, but the remainder were inferior. 

 Some of the heifers were good, but unequal. Amongst 

 the oxen some fair animals were exhibited. The show of 

 this breed generally disappointed expectation.' 



The show of horses is described as ' superior to any at 

 the Society's meetings for many years back,' In a class of 

 thirty-two aged stallions, the first premium went to Robert 

 Arkley, Philipstoun, Linlithgow, for Lothian Tam 506. In 

 a smaller class of three-year-olds, S. Clark, Manswraes, won 

 the first place. The first premium for mares and three- 

 year-old fillies went to A. W. Buttery, Monkland, Airdrie, 

 Adverting to the horse section of the show, the official 

 report said — ' The show-yard indicated that much care is 

 bestowed on the breeding of horses in the district of 

 Clydesdale ; still, it cannot be denied that a large pro- 

 portion of ordinary farmers use both mares and stallions, 

 for renewing their working stock, affected by hereditary 

 disease. Whenever a stallion or mare is affected with con- 

 tracted feet, founder, sandcracks, ringbones, bone-spavin, 

 curb, bog-spavin, diseases of the eye,* broken wind, roaring, 

 and such like, it ought to be rejected for breeding purposes. 



* Several of the diseases enumerated are not hereditary, such as founder, 

 sandcracks, and diseases of the eye. Still, animals having these diseases should 

 be rejected for breeding purposes, 



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