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place with Rosie ; while in mares in foal, Sir William 

 Stirling-Maxwell was first with Rose. Archibald Johnston, 

 Lochburn, took the first prize for three-year-old fillies with 

 Maggie ; William Craig, Craig Villa, had the first prize in 

 two-year-olds with Maggie ; and H. H. Hardie, Borrows- 

 town ]\Iains, was first in yearlings with Ranee. 



Of sheep, there were 278 entries. Of these, sixty- 

 seven were Cheviots ; and in this breed, James Brydon, jr., 

 Holm of Dalquharn, took the first prize for tups ; John A. 

 Johnstone, Archbank, the first for dinmonts ; James Brydon, 

 Kinnelhead, the first for ewes ; and Thomas Elliot, Hind- 

 hope, the first for gimmers. Blackfaced numbered fift)-five 

 pens. John Archibald, Overshiels, took the first prizes for 

 tups, ewes, and gimmers ; the first premium for dinmonts 

 going to James Greenshields, West Town, Lesmahagow. 

 The portrait of Mr Greenshields' dinmont was afterwards 

 painted for the Society by Mr Gourlay Steell, as well as one 

 of the ewes and one of the gimmers belonging to Mr Archi- 

 bald. Of Border Leicesters^ there were sixty-seven ; and 

 the first premiums went, for tups, to Thomas Forster, jun., 

 Ellingham ; for dinmonts and gimmers, to John Lees, Mar- 

 vingston ; and for ewes, to James Nisbet of Lambden. Of 

 Leicesters, there were only fifteen entries ; and the first 

 prizes in both sections went to T. H. Hutchinson, Manor 

 House. Of long-woolled sheep, other than Leicester 

 and Border Leicester, John Bell Irving of Whitehill carried 

 the first prize for tups and gimmers with Lincoln sheep ; 

 and Russell Swanwich, Royal Agricultural College Farm, 

 Cirencester, the first prize for dinmonts with a Cotswold ; 

 Thomas Wilkin, the first prize for ewes with Lincolns. 

 For Southdowns, J. J. Colman, M.P., Euston Lodge Farm, 

 Norwich, won the first prizes in both tups and ewes. The 

 Prince of Wales was an exhibitor of Southdowns from the 

 farm at Sandringham, and won second and third prizes for 

 tups and a second prize for ewes. In Shropshires, the first 

 prizes both in tups and ewes were carried by the Earl of 

 Strathmore. For short-woolled sheep, other than South- 

 downs or Shropshires, there were three entries, but no award 

 was made. 



