346 HI(illLAM) AND AGRlCULTURAf, SOCIETY. 



The show was held from 31st July to 3rd August on the 

 farm of Lincluden Mains. In the showyard, the place 

 of honour was accorded to Galloway cattle, of which 

 there were in all eighty entries. In the aged bull class, 

 Mr Beattie, Newbie House, won the first prize with his 

 Mosstrooper 3rd 279 ; in the two-year-old class, Robert 

 Stobo, Halliday Hill, won the first prize ; and in the 

 yearling class, Mr Beattie was again first with Hero. In 

 the cow class, Mr Graham, Meikle Culloch, was first with 

 his Harriet 223; while Messrs Shennan, Balig, were first in 

 the two-year-old heifer class, taking the prize with Jenny 

 Burns 1334; and Mr Cunningham, Whitecairn, first in 

 yearling class. Mr Russell of Pilmuir, reporting on the 

 show, remarked that ' the resemblance which some of 

 the finest specimens of the Galloways have to the more 

 kindly and better pointed Angus was interesting. This 

 was such as to give increased probability to the opinion, 

 which we have heard some good judges maintain, that 

 the one animal is but the effect of better treatment and 

 culture over the other.' We may note that to Mr Beattie's 

 Mosstrooper 3rd was awarded M. Dutrone's medal, as ' the 

 best Polled bull in the yard.' 



Of the Aberdeen or Angus, there was only a small 

 show. The first prize in the aged bull class was carried by 

 Mr Bowie, Mains of Kelly, with Young Panmure 232 ; the 

 honours in the two-year-old class going to Mr M'Combie 

 with Lord Clyde 249 ; and in the yearling class to the 

 Balwyllo Trustees for The Doctor 307. In the cow class, 

 Mr M'Combie was first with Pride of Aberdeen 581 ; in 

 the class of two-year-old heifers, George Brown, Wester- 

 town, was first with Maggie of Westertown 386 ; the first 

 prize in the yearling class going to Balwyllo for a daughter 

 of Noble 245. In the extra class, Mr M'Combie exhibited 

 four cows which had won prizes in 1854, 1856, 1857, and 

 1858. The specimens of the Angus or Aberdeen, if few, 

 were of rare quality ; and Mr Russell remarked that 'the 

 absence of inferior specimens from the breed puts one in 

 mind of a good picture without any back-ground of relief 

 to so great excellences.' 



