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Montlihj Council, April 8, 1891. 
Prizes. 
Class. l^t 2u(l 
£ £ 
5. For the be.;t three-furrow p'ouih 10 5 
6. For the best digging plougli for 
light land 10 5 
7. For the best digging plough for 
heavy land 10 .5 
8. For the best one-way plough . . 10 5 
Regulations. 
1. The trials will take place early 
in the spring of 1892, on land se- 
lected by the Society, in the neigh- 
bourhood of Warwick. 
2. The necessary arrangements 
for the land required for the trials 
will be made by the Society. 
3. Notice of the place and date 
of the trials will be posted to every 
competitor as soon as they are fixed. 
4. All ploughs for competition 
must be delivered at the depot of 
the trial-shed not less than three 
days previous to the commencement 
of the trials, or they will be dis- 
qualified. 
5. Each competitcr or his repre- 
sentative will be allowed to accom- 
pany the ploughman, and assist 
him in any way he may require. 
G. The order in which the several 
ploughs will be tested will be deter- 
mined by the stewards, who will 
decide by lot. 
7. No competitor will be allowed 
to enter more than two ploughs for 
competition in any one class. 
8. The points representing per- 
fection will be as under : — 
Single-Furrou! Ploughs (Classts 1 to 3). 
Price 10 
Mechanical qualities and strength . . 20 
Simplicity 10 
Draught relatively to work done ... 20 
"Flatness of sole of furrow 10 
Squareness of cut on land side .... 5 
Perfection of working and burying 
vegetation 20 
Efficiency of skim coulter 5 
Total 100 
■Tiro and Three-Fur roir Ploughs 
{Classes i and 5). 
Price 10 
Mechanical qualities and strength . . 20 
Simplicity 10 
Draught relatively to work done ... 20 
Fase of management in work and in 
turning 1.') 
Facilities of transport 5 
Flatness of sole of furrow 10 
Squareness of cut on laud side .... 5 
• This will not be considered in the case of 
outries in Class 3, 
Perfection of work and burviii* vegeta- 
tion 20 
Efficiency of skim coulter 5 
Total 120 
Digging Ploughs (Classes 6 and 7). 
Price 10 
Mechanical qualities and strength . . 20 
Simplicity 10 
Draught rel.atively to work done ... 20 
Flatness of sole of furrow 10 
tPerfection of work and burying vege- 
tation 25 
Efficiency of skim coidter 5 
Total loo 
9. The ploughs entered for com- 
petition will, after the trials, be 
retained in the possession of the 
Society until the Warwick Meeting, 
when they will all be exhibited 
together in the showyard in a space 
set apart by the Society for the pur- 
pose. 
10. Entries for the prizes must 
be made on or before Saturday, 
July 25, 1891, and must be accom- 
panied by a deposit at the rate of 
11. for each plough entered. This 
deposit will be forfeited if the 
plough is not forthcoming at the 
time appointed for the commence- 
ment of the trials, but will in other 
cases be refunded after the Warwick 
Meeting. 
NoTE.—Shoidd the Judges find any number 
of exhibits to be of practically e<iual merit, 
they are empowered to bracket them as equal, 
and so divide the prize-money. 
On the motion of Mr. Fbakkish, 
seconded by Mr. Martin, these regu- , 
lations were approved, and ordered to 
be issued forthwith. 
General Doncaster. 
The Earl of P'eveksham reported 
that the preliminary programme of 
the Doncaster Meeting prepared by 
the Secretary had been considered and 
provisionally approved. Arrange- 
ments were in progress for \.he esta- 
blishment of an ambulance station in 
the showyard, and for retaining the 
services of a detachment of the A 
Division of the Metropolitan Police. 
The Local Committee had recom- 
mended Messrs. Hodgson & Hep- 
worth and Messrs. Sanderson & 
Stringer, of Doncaster, as agents for 
the sale of cheese which exhibitors 
t Perfection of work to be : to make « good 
seed bed ; to do work Ijcst adajited for tli« 
purposes of winter fallow. 
