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evenly-balanced, moving with greater freedom, as might be 
expected from her moderate condition, was Mr. George Keid's 
" Isla," the preferred of the Dumfries Highland Show of 1878. 
The third, a lengthy cow, " Sunshine 2nd," in moderate con- 
<lition and milking freely, was contributed by Mr. W. M. 
Skinner. At three consecutive Highland Shows she was first 
as a yearling and two-year, but training to milk rather than beef, 
has dropped as a cow to the third place. 
Heifers under three years old contributed one of the best 
females on the ground, the Earl of Airlie's "Pavilion;" 
charming in her outlines, wealthy in flesh, captivating in style. 
Mr. Adamson's "Pride of Aberdeen 19tli" followed; good 
along her back, nice in her flesh, but not so well developed 
along the floor of her chest. Mr. John Hannay was third with 
a useful stylish heifer, grand in her forehand, but somewhat 
wanting in girth. The Earl of Strathmore's yearling, shown to 
disadvantage amongst older competitors, well deserved her 
commendation. 
The Judges furnished the following enthusiastic remarks on 
the merits of the Angus breed, and some particulars as to their 
awards : — 
Exhibitors of the beautiful " Angus Doddie"' — for the production of first-class 
beef so clearly ahead of all other breeds of cattle — cannot be too highly com- 
plimented on the fine display they liavo made. " Such fine cattle those 
North-country black-polls are," was a common remark from agriculturists who 
bad never previously had an opportunitj' of witnessing such a collection of 
the handsome Polled Angus. And no wonder it is that the " Angus Doddies " 
are objects of general admiration, as indeed they were at Carlisle, alike to 
interested and disinterested lookers-on. Those acquainted with the charac- 
teristics of the breed know that in symmetry of form, quality of flesh, and 
early maturity, the sonsie Angus yield to no other breed ; while) with the 
general uninformed non-agricultural public, they seem to be first favourites 
on account of their glossy black skins, and the gracefulness and beauty of their 
forms. 
Breeders ot this valuable class of stock have to regret that during the past 
year their ranks have been thinned by the death of two of the oldest and most 
prominent cultivators of t.he breed. To these two gentlemen, Mr. William 
Fullerton, of Mains of Ardestie, Forfarshire, and Mr. William McCombie, of 
Tillyfour, Aberdeenshire, breeders of Polled Angus cattle owe much. Mr. 
Fullerton, who was contemporary with the early Forfarshire breeders and 
improvers who flourished in the first and second quarters of this century, did 
a great deal for the breed in the earlier stages of its popularity ; and a great 
number of the best polled cattle in the North of Scotland trace to his herd. By 
building upon the foundation which Mr. Fullerton had laid, and by resorting 
to the parent Keillor herd in Angusshire for his bulls, the late Mr. McCombie 
raised his herd at Tillyfour to a high state of perfection. As is well known, 
he gained the " Grand Prix " at the Paris Exhibition in 1878, with a group 
from his herd, and during his lifetime he did a great deal to bring this breed 
prominently forward by exhibiting animals far and wide, and " conquering in 
a hundred fields." By treading, as it were, in the footsteps of his exemplar, 
Mr. Hugh Watson — the presiding genius of the Angus cattle at their head- 
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