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Ravenscroft, and continued in a few subsequent volumes of the 
work conducted by Messrs. Ramsay and Adamson ; but after the 
fourth volume, the Galloway Cattle Society obtained the copy- 
right of the Galloway portion of the Herd-book, which has since 
formed a separate work, edited by the Rev. John Gillespie. 
The main points of connection between its history and the 
Shows of the Royal Agricultural Society of England may be told 
very briefly. In the miscellaneous Classes, and in the Classes 
for Scotch Polled cattle, they had to compete with heavier stock, 
and size, merit being equal, usually wins. The breeders did not 
exhibit very hopefully, nor, therefore, so often as they might 
have done under stronger inducements. The breed, however, 
has its special recommendations, and in some districts for which 
larger breeds would be unsuitable, and in districts where a 
" dreadnought " great-coat is necessary to existence, it is the breed 
that exactly meets all wants. When special Classes have been 
granted, excluding the Aberdeen- Angus, the Galloway has some- 
times shown its strength. At the Battersea International Show, 
1862, separate Classes were provided, but the distance was very 
great for a local breed, and two of the Classes of bulls were failures, 
the Second Class having no entries and the Third Class only two. 
The merit of the older bulls, however, went far to compensate for 
those deficiencies. The cows and heifers, although their Classes 
filled and contained some good animals, were not quite equal in 
merit to animals since exhibited in corresponding Classes. At 
Manchester, 1869, the competition for the Local Committee's 
prizes was not great, but the breed was fairly represented. When 
the Society's Shows were held at Hull, 1873, and Liverpool, 
1877, the Galloway breed had special Classes, no Classes on either 
of those occasions being granted to the Aberdeen- Angus cattle ; 
but Galloway breeders in Scotland scarcely did what was expected 
of them, and, with the exception of the Duke of Buccleuch's 
entries at Hull and Mr.Cunningham's at Liverpool, all the winners 
belonged to Cumberland men, Mr. J. Graham of Parcelstown 
scoring well at both Shows. 
At the Kilburn Show only eleven animals were entered, 
but they were exceedingly good, and each animal exhibited 
received a card. Cumberland, again, where the breed has 
been long established, took most of the honours. In the Two- 
year-old Heifer Class, two exhibited by the Prince of Wales, 
but bred in that county by Mr. Murray of Close Gill, had 
the First Prize and Reserve Number respectively, Mr. James 
Graham's two coming in as Second and Third between those 
of His Royal Highness, and Messrs. J. and T. Graham and J. 
Little, all Cumberland men, took the rest of the prizes, excepting 
