XXX Conditions relating to Implements. 
6. The attention of the Stewards and Judges is particularly called to the 
conditions applying to pigs. Tlie Senior Steward of Live Stock is requested 
to report any malpractices on the part of Exhibitors, and any person found 
guilty will not be allowed to exhibit at future Meetings of the Society. 
_ The Judges will be instructed to deliver to the Stewards their awards 
signed, and stating the numbers to which the jirizes are adjudged, before they 
leave the Yard, noting any disqualifications. They are to transmit, under 
cover to the Secretary, immediately after the Show, their Reports on the 
several classes in which they have adjudicated, in order that each Report may 
be included in the General Report of the Exhibition of Live Stock at 
Birmingham, to be published in the 'Journal' of the Society. 
CONDITIONS EELATING TO IMPLEMENTS. 
Conditions of Trials. 
1. Such implements as the Judges may direct will be tested for draught, 
side-pull, &c., by means of the horse-dynamometer, which was used in the 
mowing-machine trials at Taunton, and which is fully described in the' 
Society's 'Journal' for 1874, Second Series, vol. x., pages 679-682. 
2. The draught in each particular case will be taljen on the dynamometer 
through the ordinary draught chains, and every precaution will be taken to 
make the angle and direction of draught, side-pull, &c., as similar as possible 
to those which ordinary farm-horses have to work against. 
3. The Trials of reaping-machines will be directed to test the qualities of the 
implements under conditions as various as the season and the state of the crofis 
in the Trial-fields will permit. 
4. The implements will be carefully weighed, so as to determine the distri- 
bution of weight, in the jiresence of the exhibitors, either when the machibes 
are handed over to the custody of the Engineers, or when they are delivered 
back again to the exhibitors before the Trials. 
5. The implements selected at the Show for future Trial, will be taken 
charge of by the Engineers, as provided by paragraph 20, page 9 of the 
General Regulations, and no access will be allowed to them for any purpose 
Avhafever until the Trials commence. The exhibitors are recommended to 
deliver up the machines in complete order, and protected in the usual way 
from rust. 
6. Platforms will be provided for setting the height of cut accurately. 
DATES OF ENTRY. FOR LIVE STOCK AND IMPLEMENTS. 
Certificates for the entry of Implements for the Birmingham Meeting 
must be forwarded to the Secretary of the Society, No. 12, Hanover Square, 
London, W., by the 1st of May, and Certificates ibr the entry of LHve Stock 
by the 1st of June. Certificates received after those respective dates will 
not be accepted, but returned to the persons b}' whom they have been sent. 
The Prizes of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, and all Prizes 
offered by the Birmingham Local Committee, are open to general competition. 
'•^* Forms of Certificate for entry, as well as Prize-Sheets for the Bimiing- 
ham Meeting, containing the whole of the conditions and regulations, 
may be obtained at the Oflice of the Society, No. 12, Hanover Square, 
London, W. 
