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competitors. The Earl of Seafield gave the Tenantry of 

 Scotland, and Mr Brown, Linkwood, responded. The Hon. 

 T. C. Bruce giving the Commercial and Manufacturing 

 Interests, Sir James Elphinstone spoke in reply, and re- 

 ferred to the opening of the Great North of Scotland Rail- 

 way as far as Huntly, which had just been accomplished. 



The show of 1856 was the last of the great competi- 

 tions held biennially. The Society the more readily 

 resumed the annual competitions that the place of meeting 

 for 1857 was at Glasgow, at which there has always been 

 a good exhibition, accompanied with satisfactory financial 

 results, arising from the large population and the numbers 

 who attend the show. The show was held from the 4th to 

 the 7th of August. The post of honour in the show 

 was assigned to the Ayrshire cattle, which mustered in 

 large force, numbering no fewer than 195 entries. In the 

 aged bull class, the first premium went to Ivie Campbell, 

 Dalgig, New Cumnock ; the second to John Stewart, cattle 

 dealer, Strathaven ; and the third to James Rennie, Kess- 

 ington. East Kilpatrick. John Stewart, Strathaven, was 

 first in the two-year-old class, and John Parker, Nether 

 Broomlands, Irv'ine, in the yearling class. James Frew, 

 Balmalloch, Kilsyth, showed the first prize in the class of 

 cows calved before 1854; and John Stewart, Strathaven, 

 in the class for three-year-old cows. John Parker, Nether 

 Broomlands, was first in cows of any age ; James Stark, 

 Garngadhill, Glasgow, in two-year-old heifers ; and George 

 Pender, Dumbreck, in yearling heifers. 



The show of Shorthorns was superior in point of 

 quality. The judges of this breed were Mr Anthony 

 Cruickshank, Aberdeen, and Mr William Torr, Aylesby 

 Manor ; the attending member being Mr G. Hope, Fenton- 

 barns. In the class of aged bulls, the first honours were 

 awarded to Mr Stirling of Keir for John o' Groat 13090 ; 

 the second going to Sir F. W. Heygate, Bart., Bellarena, 

 Londonderry ; and the third to Thomas Bell, Ballinshoe, 

 Kirriemuir, for Nimrod 13388. In the two-year-old class, 

 Mr Douglas, Athelstan.eford, was awarded the first prize for 



