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5. The Competitions (except for Horses) must take place between the 1st 

 of April and the 20th of October, and are open to all parties within the Dis- 

 trict, whether memliers of the local Association or not. 



6. The Committee shall select the breed, and specify it in the returns. In 

 Cattle, the animals exhibited must belong to one of the following pure breeds 

 — Short-horn, Ayrshire, Polled (Galloway, Angus, or Aberdeen), Highland. 

 The Bulls may be of one breed, and the Heifers of another. In Sheep, the 

 breeds must be Leicester, Cheviot, or Blackfaced. 



7. Stock of an inferior description, or which does not fall mthin the pre- 

 scribed regulations, shall not be placed for comi^etition. 



8. An animal which has gained the Society's first Premium at a previous 

 District or General Show is inadmissible in the same Class, except in the 

 case of Clydesdale Stallions, Bulls, and Tups for the Medal; and one which 

 has gained a second Money Premium can only thereafter compete in that 

 Class for the first. 



9. The Premiums shall not be dixided. In Cattle, Horses, Sheep, and 

 Swine, four lots in each Class will warrant the award of full, and two lots 

 of half. Premiums. In Dairy Produce, eight Exhibitors in any one Class 

 will warrant an award of full, and four of half, Premimns. A competitor 

 may exhibit two lots in each Class, excej^t in Dairy Produce, where only one 

 lot is allowed from the same farm. For the Silver Medal to Proprietors two 

 lots are required. To authorise the award of the Medals in the intermediate 

 year, there must not be less than two lots in each Class. 



10. The Premiums for Stallions are open to General Competition. The 

 other Money Premiums are restricted to Tenant Farmers and Proprietors 

 farming the whole of their own lands, and not also Owners of land to an 

 extent exceeding L.500 per annum. 



11. A Tenant or Factor may compete with Proprietors for the Silver 

 Medal with a Bidl or a Tup which has gained the first Money Premium at a 

 previous District or General Show. When there is any doubt as to whether 

 a competitor shoidd be ranked as a Proprietor or a Tenant, the point is left 

 to the decision of the local Committee. 



12. A Bull the property of two or more Tenants, may compete, although 

 the Exhibitors may not be Joint- Tenants. 



13. Bulls for which Money Premiums are awarded may be required to 

 serve in the District at least one season; the rate of service to be fixed by 

 the Committee. 



14. Evidence must be produced that the Prize Stallions have had produce. 



15. Mares must have foals at foot (except when death of foal is certified), 

 or be entered as being in foal ; in the latter case, payment of the Premiums 

 will be deferred till certificate of birth, which must be within 11 months 

 from the date of the Show. 



16. Aged Tups shall have served for at least three weeks during the pre- 

 vious season. AH Prize Tups must serve within the district. Ewes and 

 (jinmiers must be taken from the Exhiliitor's stock, and must have been 

 bred by him in the district ; and Ewes must have reared Lambs during the 

 season. Fleeces must not be artificially coloured. 



17. Should it be proved to the satisfaction of the Committee that an 

 animal has been entered under a false name, jjedigree, or description, for the 

 purpose of misleading the Committee or Judges as to its qualifications or 

 properties, the case shall be reported to the Directors, and submitted Ijy them 

 to the first General Meeting, in order that the Exhil)itor maybe disqualified 

 from again competing for the Societj^'s Premiums, ami liis name, if he be a 

 member, struck from the roll. 



18. When an animal has previously been disqualified by the decision of 

 any Agricultural Association in Great Britain or Ireland, such disqualification 

 shall attach, if the Exhibitor, being aware of the disqualification, fail to state 



