510 Report on the Exhibition of Live Stock at Manchester. 
the Society liad notliins; whatever to do with the proceedings; 
and it leaves the Council open to the charge of encouraging, for 
the mere sake of money making, what after all partakes more 
of the nature of a circus, than of any part of an Agricultural 
Society's Show. 
Horses entered for the Society's prizes are no longer required 
to undergo a preliminary veterinary examination, although it 
is competent for the Judges to call for the assistance of the 
Veterinary Surgeons if they consider it expedient to have any 
horse examined. This alteration of the old rule was not 
attended, so far as could be seen, by any disadvantages, but it 
will be necessary to watch the effect of it very narrowly, 
especially with respect to stallions and brood mares, as by the 
award of prizes and commendations to animals unsound, or 
having hereditary diseases, the Society might do irreparable 
mischief. 
The Reports of the Judges of Stock are given in most cases 
at length ; as the opinions of the persons deliberately chosen by 
the Society to make their awards are of material importance, 
and are read with great interest. 
The Judges of horses for agricultural purposes send in very 
meagre Reports, hardly, perhaps, doing justice to the importance 
of the classes under their adjudication. 
The Report of one of the Judges merely says — 
In several classes, numbers very short, and not satisfactory. The dray, or 
working horse classes very good generally. The first class, of entire horses, 
satisfactorj'. 
Another Report says — 
Class 1 and Class 2 good, particularly the horses to which the prizes were 
awarded. 
„ 5. Good, but not much competition. 
„ 6. Only one shown. 
„ 25 and 26. Tolerably good. 
,, 28. Passable, but short in numbers. 
„ 29. A^ery good indeed. 
„ 30. Good, but not much competition. 
„ 31. Only one shown. 
„ 32. Well represented. 
„ 33. Good, but short in number. 
';■ ,, 34. Only one shown. 
„ 35. Very good ; a pair of the best dray horses 1 ever saw. 
,, 36. Good, especially the first prize animal. 
„ 37. All the animals good in this class. 
„ 38. The prizes horses very good indeed. 
„ 39. Very well represented, good animals altogether. 
I consider the show at Manchester the best for all sorts of horses I ever 
saw. 
There were 79 entries, in all, in the agricultural horse classes. 
In some, therefore, as there were 20 classes, the entries were 
