Rules of Adjudication. 
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Sheep. 
13. All rams, except shearlings, must have been used in the preceding year. 
14. Sheep exhibited for any of the prizes must have been really and fairly 
shorn bare after the 1st of April in the year of the Exhibition ; and the 
date of such shearing must form part of the Certificate of Entry. Inspectors 
will be apix)inted by the Council to examine the sheep on their admission 
to the Show- Yard, with instructions to report to the Stewards any cases in 
which the sheep have not been really and fairly sliorn hare. 
Pigs. 
15. The three sow-pigs in each pen must be of the same litter. 
16. The breeding sows in Classes 116, 120, 124, 128, and 132, shall be 
certified to have had a litter of live pigs within the six months preceding the 
Show, or to be in-pig at the time of entry, so as to produce a litter iSfore 
the 1st of September following. In the case of in-pig sows, the prize will 
be withheld until the exhibitor shall have furnished the Secretaiy with a 
certificate of farrowing, as above. 
17. No sow, if above eighteen months old, that has not produced a litter of 
live pigs, shall be eligible to compete in any of the classes. 
18. The Judges of pigs will be instructed, with the sanction of the Stewards, 
to withhold prizes from any animals which shall appear to them to have been 
entered in a wrong class. 
19. All pigs exhibited at the Country Meetings of the Society shall be sub- 
jected to an examination of their mouths by the Veterinary Inspector of the 
Society ; and should the state of dentition in any pig indicate that the age of 
the animal has not been correctly returned in the Certificate of Entry, the 
Stewards shall have power to disqualify such pig, and shall report the circum- 
stance to the Council at its ensuing Monthly Meeting. Every pig which 
shall be found on examination by the Inspector to be oiled or coloured will be 
disqualified for competition and removed from the Show- Yard ; as well as any 
pignvhich shall be oiled or coloured while in the Show-Yard. 
20. If a litter of pigs be sent with a breeding sow, the young pigs must be 
the produce of the sow, and must not exceed two months old. 
EULES OF ADJUDICATION. 
1. As the object of the Society in giving prizes for cattle, sheep, and pigs, is to 
promote improvement in breeding stock, the Judges, in making their awards, 
will be instructed not to take into their consideration the present value to the 
butcher of animals exhibited, but to decide according to their relative merits 
for the pur^jose of breeding. 
2. If, in the opinion of the Judges, there should be equality of merit, they 
will lie instructed to make a special report to the Council, who will decide on 
the award. 
3. The Judges will be instructed to withhold any prize if they are of opinion 
that there is not suflScient merit in any of the stock exhibited for such prize 
to justify an award. 
4. The Judges will be instructed to give in a Beserved Number in each class 
of live stock ; viz., which animal would, in their opinion, possess sufficient 
merit for the prize, in case the 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 Xa symmetry, to take activity and 
strength into their consideration. 
