188 The Agricultural Features of the Paris Exhibition. 
recent years, few of the owners of Polled Scotch cattle were 
good feeders. The animals were not kept progressing from birth. 
All this has been changed within the last fifteen years ; and 
when liberal feeding and good management are bestowed, it 
has been proved to demonstration that the Polled Angus or 
Aberdeen cattle are early maturers, and very profitable beef- 
making animals. 
Scotch Highland. — Of this shaggy breed there was only one 
exhibitor, namely, Mr. James Duncan, Benmore, Kilmun, 
Argyleshire. He showed half-a-dozen, all good specimens of the 
breed. Among them was the fine three-year-old bull got by 
" Prince," and out of " Queen," and that won the first prize 
at the Highland Show at Edinburgh in 1877. His outline is 
good, and his quality and style are excellent, his countenance 
being that of a true West Highlander. In the cow class the 
handsome six-year-old cow of the Bochcastle stock, after 
" Athole," that won the first prize as a three-year-old at the 
Highland Show at Glasgow and the third at Edinburgh in 
1877, stood alone, and was readily awarded the first prize. Four 
very good animals were entered in the heifer class ; a very 
handsome two-year-old, also of the Bochcastle stock — as, indeed, 
were all the lot — getting the first prize. The regulations pre- 
cluded Mr. Duncan, as well as every other exhibitor, from taking 
more than one prize in each class, so that only three first prizes 
were awarded in the Highland Section. Two of these amounted 
in value to 400 francs, or 16/. each, and the other to 700 francs, or 
28Z. It is worthy of mention that Mr. Duncan had the honour of . 
forwarding his first-prize bull and first-prize cow to the residence 
of Rosa Bonheur, to be immortalised by the brush of that talented 
artist. The Bochcastle herd, from which several of Mr. Duncan's 
animals were descended, has long been one of the best of its kind. 
Only the other year a two-year-old Highland bull, bred by Mr. 
Stewart, was sold for 200 guineas. 
Ayrshires. — This valuable dairy breed was almost without 
representation — at any rate in the " Foreign Division," for in it 
only one specimen was exhibited — a fair five-year-old cow, shown 
by Mr. Wood, The Wilderness, Aintree, near Liverpool'. She 
was awarded a third prize, of the value of 250 francs. As ex- 
plained in the introduction, a better display of this breed would 
have come forward if exhibitors had had any prospect of their 
stock being judged by men acquainted with the characteristics 
of this useful race of cattle. 
luisH Cattle. 
Kerry Breed. — In the Cattle Department, Ireland was re- 
presented by one breed, namely, the small black Kerry cattle. 
