CHAPTER XXXIV. 



4TH SHOW AT INVERNESS, 1856; 6th AT GLASGOW, 1857; 

 AND 4TH AT ABERDEEN, 1858. 



Mr Hall Maxwell had to hurry back from Paris to 

 arrange for the show to be held in the most northern point 

 of Scotland visited by the Society — Inverness, now (1856) 

 visited for the fourth time. The show took place on the 6th, 

 7th, and 8th August, and the site was the same as in 1864. 

 The show of Shorthorns was fair. The first prize aged 

 bull was Prince of Coburg 15 100, bred at Sittyton, shown 

 by Arthur Harvey, Tillygreig ; the second was The Baron 

 13833, shown by A. Cruickshank ; and the third exhibited 

 by Charles Lyall, Kincraig, was Energy 145 11, bred by Mr 

 Boswell of Kingcausie. In the two-year-old class, T. Willis, 

 Manor House, Carperby, was first with British Boy 12496; 

 A. Cruickshank, Sitt}'ton, second with Lord Sackville 

 13249 ; while John Mackessack, Balnaferry, was third with 

 Randolph 15 128, bred at Orbliston. In the yearling class 

 the first prize was carried by Wm. Tod, Elphinstone Tower; 

 the second by Viscount Strathallan ; and the third by 

 Messrs Smith & Co., Hillhead, Nairn, with Goldsmith 

 14632. Mr Cruickshank, Sittyton, carried the first prizes 

 in the whole of the female classes, his cow being Hebe by 

 Lord Stanley 9328 ; his two-year-old heifer being Eugenie 

 by Matadore 11 800; and his yearling heifer being Lady 

 Buckingham by Dr Buckingham 14405. The second prize 

 cow was shown by Alex. M. Collie, Carsewell, and the third 

 by John Mackessack, Balnaferry. The second prize two- 

 year-old heifer was Lustre by Bloomsbury 9972, from Gor- 

 don Castle, and the third belonged to Viscount Strathallan ; 

 while the second and third prize yearlings were both shown 

 by Mr Geddes, Orbliston, both after Duke of Leinster 

 10155. 



Of the Highland breed there was a fair display. In the 



