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knowledgments of the essential services he had so kindly ren- 
dered to the Stewards of the Implement-yard in the discharge of 
thier arduofts duties. 
The Council, in appointing the Judges of Stock for the North- 
ampton Meeting, especially called their attention to those standing 
instructions of the Society which require the Judges of Neat 
Cattle, Sheep, and Pigs, in making their awards, to take into 
their consideration not the market value to the butcher of the 
animals exhibited, but their qualities as breeding stock ; and the 
Judges of Horses to take activity and strength into their con- 
sideration in addition to symmetry. The Council have also 
agreed to the following rules for the nomination of Judges : — 
" That any Member of the Society who nominates a Judge be 
requested to certify, that of his own personal knowledge he knows 
him to be qualified and willing to act as a Judge for whatever 
classes he may be proposed to be appointed, and who is uncon- 
nected with any exhibitor of stock or maker of implements, and 
has no direct personal interest in the stock exhibited as the 
breeder of any particular animals upon which he might be called 
upon to adjudicate. That the list of names so proposed (stating 
by whom proposed) be, as heretofore, referred to the Committee 
of the Council, whereof the Stewards of the Yard of the year pre- 
ceding be ex officio Members, That in case a sufficient number 
of competent persons is not proposed, the Committee are ordered 
to add the names of such other persons as they may know to be 
competent and willing to act." It has also been arranged that in 
future one Steward of the Yard in each department will go out 
of office each year by rotation. 
The Society was last year deeply indebted to the principal 
Railway Companies throughout the kingdom, who most hand- 
somely conveyed, free of charge — both to and from the Show — 
all stock and implements entered for exhibition at Northampton ; 
and their liberality was found so essentially to contribute to the 
success of the Meeting, that the Council addressed their thanks to 
the Directors of each of the Companies who had thus so highly 
favoured the Society. The Council, however, being sensible of 
