88. 



Suitable offices were provided upon the grounds for the 

 Government of the Societies, judges and reporters. A refresh- 

 ment room was also there under the patronage of the Society, 

 but was in no way financially connected with the Society. 



Yorkshire being a part of England where many hunters are 

 bred, this class of horses formed a large part of the exhibition, 

 and a magnificent lot of animals they were. A large ring, 

 about 280 feet long by 130 feet wide, with rounded corners, 

 was used for judging them, and there was also a smaller ring 

 with a swinging hurdle in its centre for testing their leaping 

 powers. There was also a third ring for judging cattle, about 

 150 feet long by 100 feet wide. Each of these rings had two 

 swinging gates at either end, one having " Entrance " and the 

 other " Exit " over it, in white letters on a black ground. The 

 former was conspicuous only from outside the rings, and the 

 latter was readily seen from the inside. All chances of con- 

 fusion were thus very much lessened. In the centre of the 

 judging rings were seats for the judges, and a signal board, 

 upon either side of which were posted the number of the class, 

 as shown in the catalogues, and the numbers of the animals 

 receiving the prizes ; the numbers were changed as each class 

 left the ring. 



Each animal carried a white cardboard label, bearing its 

 catalogue number in black lettering, which was tied between 

 the horns of cattle and on the breast of the horses, as a means 

 of ready reference to the catalogue, where full descriptions of 

 all entries were given. The prizes are awarded and the rib- 

 bons attached to tlie animals by the judges before they are sent 

 from the rings. 



On the last day of the Yorkshire Show, which lasted three 

 days, there was a parade of the Short-Horns at 10 A. M., and 

 at 10.30, a parade of all the horses, in the largest ring in front 

 of the grand stand. The several rings were enclosed by a 

 wooden fence, formed by driving three-inch by four-inch joist 

 into the ground, about ciglit feet apart, leaving about four feet 

 out of the ground, then nailing a similar piece of joist along 

 their tops. The cattle were in open sheds, twenty feet wide 



