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Mr. Robert Garne, a member of the Council, died. A vote of 
condolence and sympathy was passed. 
A suggestion that pigs should be included in the block test, and 
that the pigs exhibited in the other classes should be weighed, was 
referred to the Carcase and Stock Prize Committees. 
It having been reported that certain local authorities were adopting 
the method of isolation in place of slaughter in cases of swine fever, the 
following resolution was passed, and ordered to be forwarded to the 
Board of Agriculture :— . 
“That the Council of the Smithfield Club trust that the immediate 
slaughter of pigs in outbreaks of swine fever will still be adhered 
to by the Board of Agriculture.” 
The following resolution was received from the National Sheep 
Breeders’ Association in reply to the resolution passed by the Club. 
‘“‘ That this Association deprecates the excessive use of oiling or 
colouring of Show Sheep, but at the same time think as little 
interference as possible should be exercised in allowing 
exhibitors to show their sheep in the best possible form.” 
Resolved— 
“That the Smithfield Club appoint a Committee to wait upon the 
Government with a view of bringing before them the question 
of compensation for carcases confiscated as affected with 
tuberculosis.” 
Her Majesty the Queen’s Challenge Cup for cattle was awarded to 
Her Majesty for the third time,* and His Royal Highness the Prince 
of Wales’ Challenge Cup for sheep was awarded to the Earl of 
Ellesmere for the second time in succession, both cups being thus won 
outright. 
* Her Majesty’s heifer, which won this Cup, not being slaughtered as required by the rules, the 
Cup a to the Earl of Strathmore, and as the Earl had won it twice previously, it became his own 
property. 
