408 THE BEEED IN THE SHOW-YARD. 



I must glance at the polls exhibited at the International 

 KUburn show in the end of June of that year. They 

 were necessarily few, but good. Young Viscount 736, 

 which the previous autumn had become the property of 

 Sir George Macpherson Grant at 225 guineas, was not to 

 be gainsaid. He, looking a little paunchy, but otherwise 

 remarkably well, gained the first prize in his class, and 

 the champion prize as the best polled animal worthUy 

 indeed. All the bloom of youth and quality which the 

 three-year-old bull Monarch 1182, from Aboyne, could 

 command, failed to bring him in higher in such com- 

 pany than second. The Pitfour bull Logie the Laird 

 3rd 862, first at Edinburgh in 1877, ha\ing lost form 

 somewhat, was only commended. Madge 1217, from 

 Aboyne, the dam of Monarch, was the winning cow easily, 

 and also the best female. 



" At Perth Highland show, three weeks afterwards. 

 Monarch was a sure first, followed by Sir Maurice, from 

 Eothiemay, -which topped the two-year-old class the year 

 before, but had become less even and compact than 

 Monarch, who, barring a slight deficiency in thighs, 

 would have been very bad to beat. Monarch was very 

 well filled behind the fore-arm, and all over was much 

 more than an average specimen, having possibly been the 

 best animal from a showyard point of view bred in the 

 Marquis of Huntly's herd 



" The best polled animal at Perth, as at Aberdeen the 

 week before, was Mr Anderson's Prince Albert of Baads 

 1336, from Daugh, Tarland, bred at Baads. This bull 

 won very clearly in the two-year-old class, and was alto- 

 gether an astonishingly good animal, big, handsome, and 

 quality all over — rare combinations. Sir George Mac- 

 pherson Grant came to the front in a really good class of 

 yearUngs with the splendidly brought out buU Justice 

 1462, the last calf from the seventeen-year-old Tillyfour 

 bred cow Jilt 973, of kindred breeding to the Madges 



