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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 purpose of breeding. 
2. If, in the opinion of the Judges, there should be equality of merit, they 
will b« 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 sufBcient merit in any of the stock exhibited for such prize 
to justify an award. 
4. The Judges will be instructed to give in a Reserved 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 to symmetry, to take activity and 
strength into their consideration. 
6. The attention of the Stewards and Judges is particularly called to the 
conditions applying to pigs. The 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 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 have adjudicated, in order that each Report may 
be included in the General Report of the Exhibition of Live Stock at 
Bristol, to be published in the ' Journal' of the Society. 
DATES OF ENTRY FOR LIVE STOCK AND IMPLEMENTS. 
Certificates for the entry of Implements for the Bristol 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, Cheese, 
and Butter, 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 Bristol Local Committee, are open to general competition. 
Forms of Certificate for entry, as well as Prize-Sheets for the Bristol 
Meeting, containing the whole of the conditions and regulations, may 
be obtained at the OfiSce of the Society, No. 12, Hanover Sqtiare, 
London, W. 
