Award of Live Stock Prizes at Plymouth. clxxxiii 
CHAMPION PRIZES. 
Champion and other Prizes offered by various Societies through the Royal 
Agricultural Society of England, at the Plymouth Meeting. 
HORSES. 
Hacks icy Horse Socikty : 
Class 12— Hackney stallion, foaled in 1888 : 
1st, £15 ; 2nd, £10. 
Shikb Horse Society : 
Best Shire stallion, £25. 
Best Shire mare or filly, £15. 
Clydesdale HonsE Society : 
Best Clydesdale horse and marc or fill v, 
£25 each. 
Suffolk Stud-Book Assocutios: 
Class 41— Suffolk stallion, fouled iu 1889, 
1st, £15 : 2nd, £10. 
Class 45— Suffolk filly, foaled in 1889, 
1st, £15 ; 2nd, £10. 
CATTLE. 
Shorthorn Society: 
Best Shorthorn male and female, £25 each. 
SHEEP. 
Southdows Breeders : 
Best Southdown ram, Cup, value £25. 
PIGS. 
British Berkshire Society: 
Best Berkshire boar, furrowed 1889, and 
breeding sow, farrowed previously to or 
in 1889, Cups, value £10 each. 
Horse-shoeing Competition. 
The WonsniPFUL Compasy of Farriers : 
The two first Prizes in both Classes, value 
£10 each, together with the Freedom of the 
Guild. 
INSTRUCTIONS TO THE JUDGES. 
The following were the Instructions to the Judges contained in the 
Prize-Sheet : — 
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, are not to take into consideration the present value to 
the butcher of animals exhibited, but to decide according to their rela- 
tive merits for the purpose of Breeding. 
2. In the Classes for Stallions, Mares, and Fillies, the Judges, in awarding 
the Prizes, will, in addition to symmetry, take activity and strength 
into consideration, and pay special attention to freedom from hereditary 
disease. 
3. In the Classes for Poultry, high condition, quality, purity of race, and 
weight will be taken into consideration by the Judges in a greater 
degree than mere beauty of plumage without these distinctions. If the 
Judges are perfectly satisfied that in any case the age has been incor- 
rectly stated, they are empowered, with the sanction of the Stewards, 
to disqualify such entries ; and no appeals from the decision of the 
Judges will be entertained upon any grounds whatever. 
4. Tf, in the opinion of the Judges, there should be equality of merit, they 
will make a special report to the Stewards. 
5. The Judges, with the sanction of the Stewards, will withhold Prizes from 
any animals entered in a wrong Class. 
G. The Judges will withhold any Prize if they are of opinion that sufficient 
merit in the Stock or Produce exhibited for such Prize does not exist 
to justify an award. 
7. The Judges will give in a " Reserve Number " in each Class indicating 
the animal or exhibit which in their opinion possesses sufficient merit 
for the Prize, if the animal or exhibit to which the Prize is awarded 
should become disqualified. 
8. The Judges will deliver to the Stewards their awards, signed, stating the 
numbers to which the Prizes are adjudged, before they leave the Yard, 
and noting all disqualifications. Immediately after the Show they are 
to transmit, under cover to the Secretary, their reports on the several 
classes in which they have adjudicated, in order that the substance of 
such report may be included in the General Report of the Exhibition 
at Plymouth, to be published in the Journal of the Society. 
