354 



On the Exhibition of Live Stock at Chester. 



bearing willing testimony to his untiring zeal and energy in conducting our 

 annual meetings, and his officials are as exact and indefatigable as their em- 

 ployer." * 



Mr. Jonas has well expressed the feelings of the Chester 

 stewards upon the question of " admission orders." Names of 

 persons quite unconnected with the stock are too often sent up 

 to the Director, and not a few try to practise some deception 

 upon the authorities in order to procure admittance before the 

 Judges have made their award. This subject engrossed so much 

 attention at Chester, that I adopt Mr. Jonas's words, as con- 

 tained in his Salisbury Report : — 



" I am anxious to draw the attention of the Council to the constant vigilance 

 required to ])revent improper persons from entering the Show Yard, and I 

 must say that I could not have believed, until 1 saw it, the constant and varied 

 attempts made by exhibitors themselves or their agents to get into the yard 

 before the Judges have made their awards : I trust the perusal of these remarks 

 will induce persons to desist from such practices in future." 



Before entering upon the merits of our breeds of live stock, I 

 will place upon record the tabular documents I have men- 

 tioned, giving the numbers of the principal stock shown since 

 the Lewes Meeting, and adding to tliem in Table X. Mr. Jonas's 

 *' Summary of Live Stock exhibited " up to that time. 



Table II. — Herefobds. 



* Mr. Brandreth Gibbs has performed these onerous duties during the last 

 fifteen years, and also assisted his brother, Mr. Brandreth (the then Honorary 

 Director), at the first five shows. 



