286 THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE HOUNDS. 



CHAPTER XX. 



TRENTHAM ANNUAL SHOW — CUB-HUNTING — FUTURE PROS- 

 PECTS OF THE NORTH STAFFORD HUNT. 



The latest North Staffordshire Hunt Agricultural Show 

 and Puppy Judging Luncheon was held on July 24th, 

 1902, and is thus reported at length in the Staffordshire 

 Advertiser of the same week : 



NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE HUNT AGRICULTURAL SHOW. 



The tenth annual meeting under the auspices of the Master and gentlemen of 

 the North Staffordshire Hunt was held at Trentham on Thursday. This exhi- 

 bition is limited to exhibitors being tenant farmers, or farmers owning not more 

 than fifty acres, residing and farming on their own account within the district of 

 the Hunt. All exhibits must be the loud fide property of the exhibitors, and 

 must have been so from April 1st last, and with a few exceptions all animals 

 exhibited must have been bred within the limits of the Hunt. There is a 

 stringent rule disqualifjnng any exhibitor having strands of wire in fences on 

 his farm who refuses to let the same be removed during the hunting season at 

 the expense of the Hunt. As is well known, this question of the use of barbed 

 wire requires continual watching in the interests of the Hunt. Skilled hedgers 

 are employed on the Trentham estate to demonstrate the best methods of pre- 

 serving and adding to the hedgerows, which form so characteristic a part of 

 English landscapes. In furtherance of the same object, the Hunt give prizes for 

 the best-fenced farms. 



The Duke of Sutherland, M.F.H., is president of the exhibition, and it was a 

 subject of regret that owing to their absence from Trentham neither the Duke 

 nor the Duchess was present at the show. It will be gratifying to them to know 

 that they were held in the kindest remembrance throughout the proceedings of 

 the day. The vice-presidents are Sir Delves Broughton, Bart., Major Stamer, 

 Messrs. W. E. Bowers, H, Ker Colville, W. W. Dobson, B. Fitzherbert, F. J, 

 Harrison, G. E. Meakin, James Meakin, J. W. Philips, A. W. Radford-Norcop, 

 R. Sneyd, and T. W. Twyford. The committee is formed as follows : Mr. 

 J. W. Philips (chairman), Mr. W. W. Dobson (vice-chairman), Sir George 

 (yhetwode, Bart., Major Stamer, Messrs. J. S. Billington, J. Bourne, W. E. 

 Bowers, C. Byrd, H. Ker Colville, F. J. Harrison, A. W. Leedam, J. Q. Lamb, 

 F. G. Mather, James Meakin, George Menzies, A. W. Radford-Norcop, Alexander 



