CHAPTER XXXI. 



THIRD SHOW AT PERTH IN 1852. 



After an absence of sixteen years, the Society visited 

 Perth in 1852. In 1850, the Directors were memorialised 

 by a number of influential proprietors in Perthshire to fix a 

 meeting at Perth for 185 1, but, on account of the Great Ex- 

 hibition in London, it was considered expedient to post- 

 pone it till 1852. The exhibition, which was held on the 

 South Inch on the 4th, 5th, and 6th August, furnished 

 proof of the advance made in the interval. There were 

 now eighty-two Shorthorns, against forty-five in 1836 ; 

 fifty-four Polled in place of fourteen ; fifty-three Ayrshire 

 instead of thirty-three. The West Highland cattle were 

 stationary, the numbers being respectively sixty-five in 

 1836, and sixty-four in 1852 ; while the entries of the Fife 

 breed were fourteen, as compared with twenty in 1836. 

 Horses showed 135 entries in place of forty-six, and sheep 

 662 against 416; swine, fifty against eighteen; while of 

 poultry there were 186 entries, none being shown in 1836; 

 and dairy produce showed 123 entries against six; and 

 implements numbered 339, against seventeen. 



In the Shorthorns, Thomas Chrisp, Hawkhill, Aln- 

 wick, won the sweepstakes and the first prize in the aged 

 bull class, with his Phoenix 10608. In the two-year-old 

 class A. Cruickshank won with the roan Matadore 11800, 

 son of Mr Booth's Hopewell. In the yearling class the 

 Duke of Buccleuch carried the prize with an animal bred 

 by S. E. Bolden, Lancaster. Mr Douglas, Athelstaneford, 

 had wonderful success, being first in the cow class with his 

 red-and-white Rose of Autumn ; first in the two-year-old 

 heifer class with his Village Belle ; and first in the yearling 

 class with his white Purity. Mr Grant Duff got second 

 prize for two-year-old heifers with his Iris, by Louis d'Or, 

 out of Ladye Love, a grand-daughter of Sylph, by Sir 



