406 HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Society had done, it was entitled to no mean praise ; for 

 by doing so it had conferred a national benefit. Let them 

 look back to the shows the Society held at the beginning 

 of its career, and compare these with what was being held 

 this week in Edinburgh. There had been other exhibi- 

 tions at which there had, perhaps, been more entries, but 

 he did not think that a show ought to be estimated by 

 numbers alone. It was the quality of the exhibits that 

 ought to be the test. Even so far as numbers went, how- 

 ever, few shows had exceeded the present ; while in respect 

 of quality, he thought they might congratulate the Society 

 on having, perhaps, the best show that it ever had. Mr 

 Gillon of Wallhouse proposed the National Agricultural 

 Societies of England and Ireland, to which Jacob Wilson, 

 a member of the Royal English Society, replied. Mr 

 Walker of Bowland proposed The Exhibitors, which was 

 responded to by David Riddell. The noble Chairman 

 proposed the health of the Judges, to which Mr Yeoman, 

 Marsk Hall, Yorkshire, replied. The Earl of Rosslyn, in 

 giving the Tenantry of Scotland, said they were a body 

 of men second to none. They took advantage of all 

 modern appliances for the cultivation and improvement of 

 their farms, and no one placed more complete reliance on 

 their judgment than their own landlords. The toast was 

 acknowledged by Mr Melvin, Bonnington. 



The show of 1878 took place at Dumfries, which was 

 visited for the sixth time. The exhibition was held, as in 

 1870, on the farm of Rotchell. 



Of Galloways, which, as usual at the show on the Nith 

 took the premier place, there was a larger muster than at 

 any previous show, there being in all seventy-eight animals 

 entered. The first premium in aged bulls was won by 

 James Cunningham, Tarbreoch, with The Mackintosh 

 1009; in two-year-olds by James Little, Fauld, with Lord 

 Walter 1024 ; and in yearlings by the Duke of Buccleuch 

 with Sportsman 11 57. The Duke of Buccleuch carried all 

 the first premiums in the female classes — in cows of any age 

 with Beauty 1755 ; in three-year-old cows with Countess 



