410 THE BREED IN THE SHOW- YARD. 



round the girth, was unable to keep the premier position 

 he secured at Perth. The more colossal proportions and 

 better filling up behind the shoulder possessed by Mr 

 Ferguson's Princess bull Prince of the Eealm 1695, 

 from Kinnochtry, rightly enough weighed with the 

 judges, and the coveted ticket went to the Princess 

 instead of the Jilt tribe. Mr H. D. Adamson's Pride 

 buU Knight of the Shire 1699 easily repeated his first 

 royal honours at Carlisle in the yearling class, although 

 at Aberdeen the week before a Drumin bred Lucy bull 

 from Pitfour, here second, was put before him. The 

 last-named bull, although lengthy and stylish, was not 

 so good over the fore-rib as the Pride bulL 



" Sybil 2nd, formerly referred to, had even before the 

 Perth show become the property of Mr H. D. Adamson. 

 And like every other animal that had constitution to 

 stand liberal feeding, she improved in his hands, and at 

 Carlisle Eoyal show she walked ahead of the Baads, Isla 

 and the Drumin Sunshine 2nd, and again at Kelso stood 

 easily first. Mr Skinner was in bad luck at Kelso as 

 well as at Carlisle, and the Perth winning yearling 

 had to be contented with a commended ticket on the 

 banks of the Tweed. Lord Airlie's Pavilion 3772, of 

 Mr Hannay's breeding and Drumin descent, the second 

 winner at Perth, when she obviously had more outcome 

 in her than the first, was invincible in the two-year-old 

 class at Kelso as well as at Carlisle. But unfortunately 

 she, like many other showyard heroines, died before she 

 was able to add to a herd's numbers. Lord Airlie was 

 also distinctly ahead of the others in the yearling heifer 

 class with an animal of his own breeding, that kept her 

 place next year at Stirling, and promises well for the 

 future. This is Miranda 4204. 



"At the Stirling Highland show in 1881 the polls 

 were once more the great feature of the cattle depart- 

 ment. Prince of the Piealm and Justice fought their 



