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Maid of Perth 313 ; Lord Southcsk being third with Dul- 

 cinea 334. In two-year-old heifers, Mr M'Combie was first 

 with Maid of Orleans 580 ; Mr M'Combie of Easter Skene 

 second with a heifer by Hanton ; the Balw}-lIo Trustees being 

 third with Balwyllo Queen 445. In the yearling heifers, 

 Mr M'Combie, Tillyfour, was again first with his Pride of 

 Aberdeen 581 ; the second being an animal shown by John 

 Cruickshank, Cloves ; and the third being Evelyn 453, from 

 Balwyllo. 



Among the extra stock there was shown by Mr 

 Watson, Keillor, the Polled cow Old Grannie, No. i of the 

 Herd Book. At the date of the show this cow was thirty- 

 four years old. She was dam of twenty-five calves, and 

 only gave up breeding in her twenty-ninth year. The 

 Society awarded Mr Watson a medal as the exhibitor of 

 so remarkable an animal. The cattleman, Jas. Thomson, 

 who attended the cow all her lifetime, and had been in the 

 ser\'ice of Mr Watson for forty-two years, was, at this show, 

 presented with the medal and premium of 100 francs by 

 the ' Societe pour Protection des Animaux, Justice et 

 Compassion Hygiene de Paris,' through their Secretary, 

 M. Dutrone. The cow died at the age of thirty-five and a 

 half years. A good deal of attention was drawn to a lot of 

 ten cows, all Polled, exhibited in the extra class by Mr 

 Walker, Portlethen, for which he was awarded a medal. 



Of Ayrshires, there was a small exhibition, there being 

 only thirty-seven entries. All the first prizes in the five 

 classes were carried by one exhibitor — John Stewart, Burn- 

 side Cottage, Strathaven. 



Of the Highland breed, there was a fair display. The 

 Marquis of Breadalbane carried the first prizes in both the 

 classes for bulls, and in the class for cows. The first prize 

 for three-year-old heifers was won by Harry Shaw, Bogfern ; 

 the first premium in the class of two-year-old heifers falling 

 to Messrs Smith, Minmore, Glenlivet. 



There was a large and fine display of fat oxen, cross- 

 bred, Highland, and Polled. 



Of horses, there was a fair show. Aged stallions 

 numbered thirty-three, three-year-old colts twenty-one, 



