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added that the Directors, however, would not be deterred 

 from making another trial, in the hope of greater success, 

 at Glasgow. 



The second show, accordingly, took place in the Cattle 

 Market, Glasgow, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 12th 

 and 13th December 1854. The number of cattle was 

 eighty-seven ; sheep, forty-three, in pens of three each ; 

 pigs, seventeen ; poultry, 186, in coops of three each ; dairy 

 produce, eighty-seven ; seeds and roots, 270. At this show 

 Mr M'Combie sold two oxen, which were first and second 

 in the Polled breed, for £110 ; Mr Pollok of Broom sold a 

 cross ox for £6^ ; and a cross ox was sold by Mr Stirling 

 of Keir for fifty guineas. 



At the General Meeting in January 1855, Captain 

 Falconar again reported that, notwithstanding every at- 

 tempt to curtail the expense and to add to the interest of 

 the exhibition, the Glasgow winter show, had ended in a 

 very considerable loss, and stated that the Directors had no 

 hesitation in discountenancing the repetition of an experi- 

 ment which, without enlisting public sympathy and support, 

 would most probably again land the Society in a large 

 pecuniary loss. 



The abandonment of the shows was then unanimously 

 resolved upon, as a measure indispensably necessary, how- 

 ever much to be regretted. The deficit on the Glasgow 

 show was above ^500. 



A movement soon after took place with the view of 

 raising a subscription to guarantee the Society against loss, 

 and to enable the Directors to re-establish these shows. 

 The result was a report, by Capt. Falconar, to the General 

 Meeting on nth July 1855, to the effect that the supporters 

 had not succeeded in making any arrangement which 

 would warrant the Directors in proposing to cancel the 

 resolution of the January meeting. 



The Edinburgh Christmas Club Show was afterwards 

 established, and to it the Society contributes the sum of 

 fifty pounds and medium gold medal. 



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