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very great. It was supposed that on Thursday as many as 

 35,000 persons had entered the exhibition. The sum taken 

 for admission and for catalogues during the show was 

 ;^2343 13s. 9d. 



Mr M'Lagan of Pumpherston, in a report he made of 

 the show, observes that the Shorthorn cattle gave evidence 

 of considerable improvement between 1848 and 1859. The 

 animals had become ' more compact, with shorter legs, and 

 the beef laid on with more Icvelness over the whole body.' 

 In the aged bull class, the prize was carried by George 

 Shepherd, Shethin, with Cherry Duke 2nd 14265 ; John 

 Hunter, Dipple, was first in the two-year-old class with The 

 Duke, a son of Magnum Bonum 13277; while in the yearling 

 class, the first prize went to Lord Kinnaird. In the cows, 

 the first prize was carried by Mr Douglas with his three- 

 year-old white Venus de Medicis. Mr Douglas also won 

 the first and second prizes in the two-year-old heifer class, 

 the former with Lady of Athelstane, and the latter with 

 Maid of Athelstane. The first prize yearling heifer was 

 shown by Messrs Turnbull, Bonhill Place, Dumbarton. 



The Polled Angus and Aberdeen and Galloways were 

 shown in separate clas.ses. In the former, in the aged bull 

 class, the first prize was Windsor 221, shown by the Earl 

 of Southesk. The first prize two-year-old bull was The 

 Earl 291, shown by Robert Walker, Montbletton. In the 

 yearling class, the Balwyllo herd carried the first prize with 

 Lord Clyde 249. John Collie, Ardgay, took the first prize 

 in cows with Fair Maid of Perth 313. In the two-year-old 

 heifer class, the first honour went to Mr M'Combie, Tilly- 

 four, for his Pride of Aberdeen 581 ; the first prize in the 

 yearlings going to Balwyllo for Heiress of Balwyllo 461. 



Of Galloways, there were only twenty in all. The first 

 prize in aged bulls was won by Messrs Shennan, Balig, with 

 Bob Burns 235. The other first prizes were won by Samuel 

 Thomson, Blaiket ; John Cunningham, Whitecairn ; John 

 Cruickshank, Cloves, Forres ; and Samuel Cunningham, 

 Dunrod Mill. 



Of Ayrshires, there were seventy-eight entries. The 

 winners of the first prizes were Sir James Colquhoun of 



