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Kefort to the General Meeting, 
partment will be Friday, April 1 ; but post-entries, of agricultural 
implements only, will be received up to Friday, April 8. For 
Stock, Poultrv, and Produce, the entries will close on Saturday, 
April 30, wii_ ost-entries at .double fees up to Thursday, May 12. 
11. The Council ha^■e already reported their decision to offer in 
connection with the Warwick Meeting prizes amounting in all to 
120^. for different descriptions of ploughs. Seventy-two entries 
from eleven firms have been received for the competition, which 
will be held in tlie neighbourhood of Warwick in the spring of 
next year. 
12. The prize-sheet for Stock, Poultry, and Produce has now 
been definitely settled, and will be issued immediately. The prizes 
given by the Local Committee include five classes for Hunter Mares 
or Geldings, two classes each for Hackney, Pony, and Harness Mares 
or Geldings, two for Agricultural Geldings, two for Longhorn Cattle, 
two for Shropshire Sheep, five for Goats, and one for Butter. The 
Local Committee will also give Champion Prizes for Hereford Cattle, 
and Oxford Down and Shropshire Rams. 
13. The classes for Horses offered liy the Society itself will 
include Hunters, Coach Horses, Hackneys, Ponies, Shires, Clydes- 
dales and Sutfolks. The Council have decided that the regulation 
requiring that no stallion shall be awarded a prize until a veterinary 
examination has pi'onounced him free from hereditary disease shall 
for the future be extended to brood mares. 
14. In the Cattle Classes, prizes will be offered by the Society 
for the Shorthorn, Hereford, Devon, Sussex, Welsh, Red Polled, 
Jersey, Guernsey, Kerry and Dexter Kerry breeds, as well as for 
Dairy Cattle giving the greatest quantity of milk containing not 
less than twelve per cent, solids, and three per cent, butter- fat. A 
separate class has been added for Dairy Cows which shall have calved 
not less than three months before the date of the Show. 
16. The Classes for Sheep will include Leicesters, Cotswolds, 
Lincolns. Oxford Downs, Shropshiros, Southdowns, Hampshire 
Downs, Suffolks, and Border Leicesters, with the local breeds of 
Clun Forest and W^-lsh Mountain ; and those for Pigs will include 
tlie Large White, Middle White, Small Wliite, Berkshire, Black, 
and Tamworth breeds. The Council have resolved to extend to Pigs 
the regulations tiiat all animals entered must be eligible for entry in 
the Herdljooks of their respective breeds, and that no animals 
which hav(! been exhibited as Fat Stock at any Show shall be 
eligible to compete for the Society's prizes. 
16. Prizes will also be given for useful descriptions of Poultry, - 
including Table Fowls and Ducks; for Chee.se of 1892 make, and 
Soft Chee.se ; for Fresh and Salt Butter ; for Cider and Perry ; and 
for Jams and I'rcserved Fruits made in 1891. Tiie Britisli Bee- 
