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Rules of Adjudication. 
KULES OF ADJUDICATION. 
1. As the object of the Society in giving prizes for sheep and pigs is to 
promote improvement in hreeding stock, the Judges in making their awards 
will be instructed not to take into their consideration tlie present value to the 
butcher of animals exhibited, but to decide according to their relative merits 
for the purpose of breeding. 
2. If, in the opinion of the Judges, there should be equality of merit, they 
will be instructed to make a special report to the Council, who will decide ou 
the award. 
3. The Judges will be instructed to withhold any prize if they are of opinion 
that there is not suflicient merit in any of the stock exhibited for such prize 
to justify an award. 
4. The Judges \nl\ be instructed to give in a reserved number in each class 
of live stock ; viz., which animal would, in their opinion, possess sufficient 
merit for the prize in case tlie animal to which the prize is awarded should 
subsequently become disqualified. 
5. In the classes for stallions, mares, and fillies, the Judges in awarding the 
prizes will be instructed, in addition to symmetry, to take activity and 
strength intp their consideration. 
