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display of polled Aberdeen or Angus cattle at the 

 Dumfries Highland show in July of 1878. That circum- 

 stance was possibly not alone to blame for the compara- 

 tively small turnout at Dumfries. The distance of the 

 show-yard from the stronghold of the breed also affected 

 their muster prejudicially. In a moderately good class 

 of aged bulls, the Tillyfour bred bull the Shah 680, from 

 Kinnochtry, where he did good service, was a worthy first. 

 He was big, lengthy, and massive, with good cover of flesh. 

 In the two-year-old bull class Mr Tayler's Sir Maurice 

 1319, bred at Fyvie Castle, turned the tables on Warrior 

 1291, from Aboyne, who was second, closely followed by 

 the Aboyne-bred bull Monarch 1182, of whom more 

 anon. Size and substance more than character and 

 quality, pulled Mr Cartwright's Black Prince 1244 to 

 the front in the yearling bull class. Mr Eeid's sym- 

 metrical, little, ladylike cow Isla 1965, from Baads, was 

 a distinct first in her class, and testified to the good 

 material in the Baads herd, of which exhibitors had a 

 taste in Inverness in 1874. Sunshine 2nd 333.3, 

 from Drumin, led away very easily in the two-year-old 

 heifer class. She was really a grand two-year-old, far 

 better than she was as a yearling, or than she afterwards 

 appeared. Deep-quartered, round-ribbed, full of hair, of 

 excellent symmetry and quality, she was perhaps the best 

 northern poll at Dumfries — I say northern, because the 

 polled Galloways formed the leading feature of the bovine 

 sections at the Highland show of 1878. Mr Ferguson, 

 Kinnochtry, with a capital representative of his fine old 

 Princess tribe of Keillor descent, had a hard pull in the 

 yearling heifer class, with a well brought out heifer from 

 Easter Skene. To Kinnochtry ultimately the coveted 

 ticket was sent ; and not unworthily so, for the Princess 

 heifer had a head, neck, and front generally that were 

 hard to get over. 



" Before I come to the Perth Highland show in 1879, 



