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Prizes for Implements, Sfc. 
The Judges will be instructed to deliver to the Stewards their awards 
signed, and stating the numbers to which the prizes 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 bave adjudicated, in order that each Report may 
be included in the General Report of the Exhibition of Live Stock at 
Liverpool, to be published in the 'Journal' of the Society. 
II. — Medals foe Implements and Machinery offered 
by the Society. 
GOLD MEDAL. 
The Gold Medal of the Society will be awarded at Liverpool or any future 
Meeting of the Society, for an efficient Sheaf-binding Machine, either attached 
to a reaper or otherwise. 
SILVER MEDALS. 
There are Ten Silver Medals, the award of which the Judges appointed by 
the Council have the power of recommending in cases of sufficient merit in 
New Implements exhibited at the Liverpool Meeting. 
These Medals cannot in any case be awarded to any Implement, unless the 
principle on which the ^Implement is constructed be entirely new, and the 
Implement has never before been exhibited at any of the Society's Shows. 
These Medals are specially intended as a mark of approval of any new 
principles of construction which the Judges may consider as essential im- 
provements ; subject always to the restriction contained in Rule 2. 
The Judges are also empowered to make special awards of Medals for 
efficient modes of guarding or shielding Machinery, especially when worked 
by steam, from contact with persons immediately engaged in attending to 
such machinery while at work. 
No Medal shall, in any case, be awarded to any Implement or Miscella- 
neous Articles capable of Trial until it has been subjected to such Trial as the 
Stewards may direct. 
No Medal shall be awarded by the Judges without the consent of the 
Stewards, and no Commendation of Miscellaneous Articles shall be made by 
the Judges. 
DATES OF ENTRY FOR LIVE STOCK AND IMPLEMENTS. 
Certificates for the entry of Implements for the Liverpool Meeting must 
be forwarded to the Secretary of the Society, No. 12, Hanover Square, London, 
W., by the 1st of May, and Certificates for the entry of Live Stock by the 
1st of June. Certificates received after those respective dates will not be 
accepted, but returned to the persons by whom they have been sent. 
The Prizes of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, and all Prizes 
offered by the Liverpool Local Committee, are open to general competition. 
%* Forms of Certificate for entry, as well as Prize-Sheets for the Liverpool 
Meeting, containing the whole of the conditions and regulations, may 
be obtained at the Office of the Society, No. 12, Hanover Square, 
London, W. 
