General Regulations for Exhibition. ix 



INSTRUCTIONS TO THE JUDGES. 



As the object of the Society in giving the prizes for neat cattle, sheep, 

 and pigs, is to promote improvement in breeding stock, the Judges, in 

 making their award, are instructed not to take into their consideration 

 the present value to the butcher of animals exhibited, but to decide 

 according to their relative merits for the purpose of breeding. 



In the Class for Horses, the Judges, in awarding the prizes, are 

 instructed, in addition to symmetry, to take activity and strength into 

 their consideration. 



ESSAYS AND REPORTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. 



^rijes; for 1843. 



PRIZE ESSAYS. 



1. Artificial Food for Cattle or Sheep. 



Twenty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 

 for an Account of the best mode of ascertaining the relative value of 

 different sorts of Artificial Food for Cattle or Sheep. 



Competitors will be required to attend to the following conditions in 

 their prosecution of experiments on this subject : — 



1. One or more head of cattle or sheep to be put to each of the sorts of 



artificial food selected for trial. 



2. To ascertain by measurement or weighing the state of the animals 



when first put to feed, and at given intervals afterwards. 



3. When the increase has been ascertained at the end of one or two 



months, the experiment to be reversed, and the animals put to the 

 sort of food which in the first month was consumed by their com- 

 petitors, and the increase ascertained in a manner similar to that 

 applied in the first month. 



4. In all cases, the quantity of food consumed by each class of cattle 



or sheep to be accurately stated. 



2. Natural Food for Cattle or Sheep. 



Twenty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 

 for an Account of the best mode of ascertaining the relative value of 

 different sorts of Natural Food for Cattle or Sheep. 



Competitors will be required to attend to the same conditions in 

 reference to this prize as in the preceding. 



