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Conditions relating to Prizes. 
CONDITIONS EELATING TO LIVE-STOCK PKIZES. 
1. No bull atove two years old will be eligible for a prize unless certified to 
liave served not less than three different cows (or heifers) within the three 
months preceding the 1st of June in the year of the Show. 
2. No cow will be eligible for a prize unless certified to have had a live calf, 
either between the date of entry and that of the Show, or ■vVithin the twelve 
months preceding the date of the Show. 
3. No heifer, except yearlings, entered as in-calf, will be eligible for a prize 
unless she is certified to have been bulled before the 31st of March in the year 
of Show, nor will her owner afterwards receive the prize until he shall have 
furnished the Secretary with a further certificate that she produced a live calf 
before the 31st of January in the subsequent j'ear. 
4. All foals must be the offspring of the mare along with which they are 
exhibited for the prize. 
5. The ewes in each pen must be of the same flock. 
6. The three sow-pigs in each pen must be of the same litter. 
7. The breeding sows in Classes 79, 80, 81, 82, and 83, shall be certified to- 
have had a litter of pigs within the six months preceding the Show, or to be 
in-pig at the time of entry, so as to produce a litter before the 1st of September 
following. In the case of in-pig sows, the prize will be withheld until the 
Exhibitor shall have furnished the Secretary with a certificate of faiTOwing, as 
above. 
8. The Judges of pigs will be instructed, with the sanction of the Stewards, 
to withhold prizes from any animals whicli shall appear to them to have been 
entered in a wrong class ; and to affix a placard of disqualification to the pens 
of those animals. 
9. All pigs exhibited at the country meetings of the Society shall be sub- 
jected to an examination of their mouths b^- the Veterinary Inspector of the 
Society; and should the state of dentition in any pig indicate that the age of 
the animal has not been correctly rctui'ned in the Certificate of Entry, the 
Stewards shall have power to disqualify such pig, and shall report the circum- 
stance to the Council at its ensuing monthly meeting. 
10. If a litter of pigs be sent with a breeding sow, the j'oung pigs must be 
the produce of the sow, and must not exceed three months old. '> 
11. No horse shall be exhibited without a certificate from a Member of the 
Eoyal College of Veterinary Surgeons, as to the state of the animal with refer- 
ence to hereditary diseases, particularly those of the respiratory and visual 
organs; which certificate shall accompany the Certificate of Entry; but that 
the above shall not supersede the usual examination by the Society's Veterinary 
Inspector. 
12. A form of certificate will be sent to every Fxhibitor of liorscs, to bo 
filled uj) by a Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, certifying 
to tlie soundness of every horse exhibited, without which such horse shall not, 
be admitted into the Yard. 
