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Of fat stock there were twenty-one entries. First 

 premiums were carried by C. S. H. Drummond Moray of 

 Blair Drummond ; the Earl of Seafield, Castle Grant ; Mr 

 M'Combie of Tillyfour ; J. & W. Martin, Aberdeen ; Alex. 

 Munro, Ord ; and Adam Henderson, Grange, Dunfermline. 



Of horses there were in all 342. David Riddell, Black- 

 hall, Paisley, took the first premium in aged stallions with 

 Darnley 222, while he also carried the first for yearling 

 colts. In three-year-old colts the first premium was won 

 by Alexander Weir, Newhouse Mill, with Prince George 

 Frederick 644; while in two-year-olds the first went to 

 John Thompson, Baillieknowe, for Lord Salisbury. In the 

 class of mares with foal at foot, W. H. Hardie, Borrowstoun 

 Mains, took the first premium with Ranee. The first 

 premium in mares in foal was awarded to Sir William 

 Stirling Maxwell for Netty ; but the mare not proving in 

 foal, the premium went to Lawrence Drew for Sheba. In 

 three-year-old fillies the first premium was won by W. J. 

 Houldsworth, Coltness, with Sally ; in two-year-olds, by 

 John M. Martin, Auchendennan Farm, with Damsel ; and 

 in yearlings, by the Earl of Strathmore, with Bess. 



Sheep numbered 305 entries. Cheviots mustered 

 eighty-two pens. The first premium in aged tups was 

 taken by Thomas Welsh, Ericstane ; in two-shear tups by 

 James Brydon,jun., Holm of Dalquhairn ; and in shearling 

 tups by Herbert Brydon, Thirlstane Hope. James Archi- 

 bald, Glcngelt, took first premiums both in ewes and 

 gimmers. Of the Blackfaced breed there were 106 pens. 

 David Foyer, Knowehead, took the first premium for three- 

 shear tups ; John Archibald, Overshiels, for two-shear; and 

 J. Watson, Culterallers, for shearlings. The first premium 

 in ewes was won by James J. Currie, Yorkston, and in 

 gimmers by Patrick Melrose, West Loch, Of Border 

 Leicesters there were sixty-eight pens. In aged tups, Wm. 

 Pur\'es, Thurdistoft, took the first premium, and James 

 Clark, Oldhamstocks Mains, took the first prize for shear- 

 ling tups and for gimmers, the first premium for ewes falling 

 to James Nisbet of Lambden. Of Leicesters there were 

 eleven pens, shown by two exhibitors. Eric Sutherland, 



