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General Regulations for Exhibition. 
at the meeting at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The stock which may com- 
pete for that prize shall be exhibited, subject to. the conditions that 
shall be decided upon by the Council ; and the prize awarded by such 
of the Judges as the Council shall select. Animals exhibited for that 
prize shall not be prevented from competing for any of the prizes 
oifered by the Society for which they are qualified. 
5. No prize will be given when the Judges are of opinion that there 
is not sufiBcient merit in the stock to justify an award. 
6. No castrated or spayed animal will be allowed to be exhibited in 
the yard. 
Extra Stock. 
1. All animals intended to be exhibited as Extra Stock must be duly 
entered on the printed forms, as in the cases of animals to be shown in 
the classes. 
2. Persons intending to exhibit animals as Extra Stock can alter the 
blank Certificates to answer their purpose. 
3. No animal qualified to be shown in any Class can be exhibited as 
Extra Stock. 
Instructiois to the Stewards, S)-c. 
1. The Director and Stewards are instructed to take care that no 
Governor nor Member (including the Council), stranger, or competitor 
be admitted into the yard .under any pretence whatever, until the awards 
of the Judges shall have been delivered to the Director. 
2. The Council delegates full pow er to the Director and Stewards to 
enforce the above regulations. 
Instructions to the Judges. 
1. The Judges of Stock will be requested to observe that they have up 
to five o'clock on Wednesday, in the week of the show, for making their 
adjudication, and signing their award. 
2. As the object of the Society in giving the prizes for neat cattle, 
sheep, and pigs, is to promote improvement in breedi/tg stock, the 
Judges, in making their award, will be instructed not to take into their 
consideration the present value to the butclier of animals e.xhibited, but 
to decide according to the relative merits for the purpose of breeding. 
3. If, in the opinion of the Judges, there should be equality of merit, 
they are instructed to make a special report to the Council, who will 
decide on the award. 
4. The Judges will be instructed to withhold any prize if they are of 
opinion that there is not sufficient merit in any of the stock exhibited for 
such prizes, to justify an award. 
5. In the class for horses, the Judges, in awarding the prizes, will-.be 
instructed, in addition to symmetry, to take activity and strength into 
their consideration. 
6. The Judges will be instructed to deliver to the Director their award, 
signed, and stating the numbers to which the prizes, &c. are adjudged, 
before they leave the yard. 
