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further enlargement of the Hall, in order to provide 
increased accommodation for implement exhibitors at the 
Club’s Shows. 
The Report of the Hall Committee embodying this 
proposal was adopted by the Council, and the enlargement 
became an actual fact in 1883-—the year of H.R.H. the 
Prince of Wales’ second Presidency—the Club contributing 
the sum of £2,000 towards its cost. The leading manu- 
facturers of the kingdom have, as was anticipated, taken 
such advantage of the extra facilities offered, that it is now 
possible for farmers and others coming up to the Annual 
Shows to see at the same time, what is perhaps the most 
perfect museum, for its compass, of agricultural implements, 
machinery, seeds, roots and feeding stuffs, to be found in 
the kingdom. 
Besides the grant for this addition, a further sum of 
£200 was subsequently made towards the cost of widening 
the Galleries in the Main Hall. 
In 1894, the Hall Company submitted plans of a new 
building adjoining the Great Hall, which it was proposed 
to erect, and which would accommodate the pigs and the 
overflow of sheep entries. The scheme was approved of, and 
the Council contributed £1,500 towards the necessary out- 
lay. A further sum of £200 was contributed by the Club 
towards the provision of a room, for the use of the herdsmen 
and shepherds attending the Show. 
This last great enlargement gave an opportunity of pro- 
viding for the carrying out of a new scheme, relating to the 
carcases of animals shown, which is interesting because it is 
really a return to the principle underlying some of the con- 
ditions of the Shows, in the first days of its existence. 
At the earlier Shows of the Club the Judges had to select 
the two best animals in each class, and these had to remain 
for public exhibition. The Judges had then to inspect the 
killing of them, and were instructéd to take an account of 
the weights, distinguishing the fore and hind quarters, 
tallow, hide, pelt, offal, blood, &c., and having ascertained 
these points, then to decide which animal was to be placed 
first, and which second, in each class. 
The return of the dead weights could not continue to be 
-given by the Judges, however, because the butchers objected 
‘'to purchase the animals under the conditions laid down by 
the Club; therefore, in 1804, the exhibitors of prize animals 
were required to obtain this information from the butchers. 
The prizes were not paid to the successful competitors until 
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