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That three breed cups be offered as under :—f10 cup for Kentish or 
Romney Marsh, £10 cup for Suffolk and Dorset, and £10 cup for 
Cheviot and Mountain, instead of the £15 cup now given for these 
breeds of sheep collectively. 
That Tamworths have the same class prizes, &c., as the other breeds 
of pigs, viz., £10, £5 and £3 in each class, and £10 breed cup. 
That for the purposes of judging, the cattle be divided into four 
divisions, with two judges in each division, to award prizes and breed 
cups. Two other judges to award the £50 cups and champion plate 
(umpires previously selected for each division and for champion awards) 
the divisions being as under :—(1) Devons, Sussex, and Red Polled; (2) 
Herefords, Welsh, Kerry, and small cattle ; (3) Short-horns, Cross-breds, 
and extra classes; (4) Aberdeen-Angus, West Highland and Galloway. 
That the sheep classes be divided into six divisions, viz., Division 1, 
Leicesters and Lincolns ; 2, Cotswolds, Kentish or Romney Marsh, and 
Devon or other pure Long-woolled breeds ; 3, Southdowns and Shrop- 
shires; 4, Hampshires, Suffolks and Dorsets; 5, Oxfordshires and 
Cross-breds; 6, Cheviots and Mountain breeds; and that there be two 
judges in each division (with umpires), one judge from each of the three 
Long-woolled divisions to judge champion Longwools, and one judge 
from each of the three Short-woolled divisions to judge champion 
Shortwools. Dorsets to compete for champion with Shortwools. 
That the Pig classes be divided into two divisions, Whites and 
Blacks (Cross-breds to be judged in the ‘‘ White” division), and that 
there be two judges in each division (with umpire). One judge from 
each division to decide the champion prize, (with umpire). 
The Stock Prize Sheet Committee was requested to consider at 
their meeting in February, 1893, the practicability of instituting a 
block test at the shows of the Club. 
As the result of an interview of the Managing Director of the Royal 
Agricultural Hall Company with the Council, it was resolved that the 
requirements of the London County Council be complied with. 
The attention of the Council was called to the existence of swine 
fever in this country, and the action of local authorities for its sup- 
pression. It was felt that the diversity of action of local authorities did 
not conduce to the eradication of this disease, and the Council therefore 
passed the following resolution, a copy of which was sent to the Minister 
of Agriculture :— 
“The Council of the Smithfield Club beg to convey to the Right 
Hon. the President of the Board of Agriculture their unanimous 
concurrence with the sentiments conveyed to him by the deputa- 
tion of the members of the Farmers’ Club and Central and 
Associated Chambers of Agriculture, praying that similar 
measures to those adopted for stamping out pleuro-pneumonia in 
the United Kingdom may be adopted for stamping out swine fever.” 
jn the Annual General Meeting the following resolutions were 
passed :— 
“To the Right Hon. the Minister of Agriculture. 
(1) ‘In February last the Council of the Smithfield Club for- 
warded a resolution to the late Minister of Agriculture, 
praying ‘that similar measures be adopted for stamping out 
swine fever as those enforced for stamping out pleuro- 
pneumonia.’ The success of those measures with regard to 
pleuro-pneumonia are so apparent that the members of the 
Smithfield Club earnestly pray that they may now be extended 
to swine fever,” 
