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but too short-lived herd of the Marquis of Huntly. 

 Eventually, however, she had to give way at Dumfries 

 to Fuschia 979, from Ballindallocli, a very deep, short- 

 legged heifer of rare quality under the hand. Mr 

 Skinner got to the front in the yearling class with 

 Heather Bell 962, a tidy, smart heifer, not big, but well 

 brought out, and displaying a little white in her face and 

 in the underline. 



" In the bull classes the cream of the honours, so to 

 speak, went to Portlethen, Ballindalloch, and Westertown. 

 Palmerston B74 was the best aged bull. His hind legs 

 came rather far in below him when he stood ' at ease,' 

 and he had rather much of bone; but his quality and 

 wealth of flesh were remarkable, and he was a popular 

 first. After leaving Portlethen, where he, like many 

 other notable animals, was bred, he did good service in 

 Lord Fife's herd. The subsequently famous Juryman 

 404 of the Jnt tribe, from Ballindalloch, the place of his 

 birth, made his first appearance in the national show at 

 Dumfries. His frame was then, as always, just a trifle 

 narrow, and his hind quarters drooped rather too much ; 

 but his quality under the hand, his head, neck, and 

 shoulders and chine atoned for any defects, and be was 

 popularly placed first, a Ballindalloch -bred bull from 

 Castle Fraser getting second honours. Baron Settrington 

 356, from Westertown, was a grandly furnished yearling, 

 and was not to be denied in his class any more than he 

 was at Perth in 1871, where Juryman, looking nobly 

 although rather restlessly, — he was nervous and keen, — 

 proved too heavy for a large class of old buUs. The 

 Ballindalloch herd made a complete sweep of the three 

 money prizes for cows on the South Inch of Perth in 

 1871. Eisa was easily first, and a remarkably sweet, 

 ladylike, evenly - balanced cow she was. Indeed, I 

 hardly think that for genuine cow -character, quality, 

 and symmetry combined, any of the Highland Society's 



