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General Regulations for Exhibition. 
for each entry of live stock, or assortment of articles for exhibition. 
The Regulations and Conditions of the sale will be published for the 
information of Exhibitors previously to the 1st of June. 
Instructions to the Judges. 
As the object of the Society in giving the prizes for neat cattle, sheep, 
and pigs, is to promote improvement in breeding stock, the Judges, in 
making their award, are instructed not to take into their consideration 
the present value to the butcher of animals exhibited, but to decide ac- 
cording to their relative merits for the purpose of breeding. 
In the Class for horses, the Judges, in awarding the prizes, are in- 
structed, in addition to symmetry, to take activity and strength into their 
consideration. 
ESSAYS AND REPORTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. 
^n^esi fcir 1844. 
PRIZE ESSAYS. 
I. Water-meadows and Upland Pastures. 
Twenty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 
for the best Account of the Comparative Value of Water-meadows and 
Uplands generally for Cattle, Sheep, and Horses, but especially for 
Milch Cows. 
Competitors will be required to state the following particulars in 
reference to the trials instituted for the purpose of obtaining practical 
results on this subject : — 
1. The nature of the soil and its state of drainage to be described ; and 
equal portions of upland and water meadow to be selected. 
2. Equal numbers of cows of the same age and breed (not less than 
four in number) to be separately fed in pairs, on each different 
kind of sjiass, and to be changed once from one kind of grass to 
the other ; and the quantity, as well as the quality, of the milk 
from such cows to be ascertained by the lactometer. 
3. If made into hay, the quantity of each sort produced on the land, 
and the quantity, as well as quality, of the milk which has been 
produced, to be ascertained in a similar manner. 
4. The value of spring food and grass, whether in rowen or pasture. 
5. The same conditions lo be applicable to the feeding of sheep-stock ; 
stating tlie numbers which the same quantity of each land has 
separately maintained during a certain period ; and whether or not 
subject to the rot by the flooding. 
6. In regard to irrigating the land : the primary cost, whether of catch- 
water or flow-meado^v, of its formation, and the annual expense of 
management, including the repair of sluices ; together with the 
lormer and present rent or value. 
