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Conditions relating to Live Stock. 
Sheep. 
11. All rams, except shearlings, must have been used in the present year. 
12. Sheep exhibited for any of the prizes must have been really and fairly 
shorn hare after the 1st of April in the year of the Exhibition; and the 
date of such shearing must form part of the Certificate of Entry. Three 
Inspectors will be appointed by the Couacil to examine the sheep on their 
admission to the Show- Yard, with instructions to report to the Stewards any 
cases in which the sheep have not been really and fairly shorn hare. 
13. Sheep unfairly prepared for Show by oiling or colouring may be 
disqualified on the recommendation of the Inspectors of Shearing. 
Pigs. 
14. The three sow-pigs in each pen must be of the same litter. 
15. The breeding sows in Classes 113, 1]7, 121, 125, and 128, shall be 
certified to have had a litter of live 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 cer- 
tificate of farrowing, as above. 
16. No sow, if above eighteen months old, that has not produced a litter of 
live pigs, shall be eligible to compete in any of tlie classes. 
17. The Judges of pigs will be instructed, with the sanction of the Stewards, 
to withhold prizes from any animals which shall appear to them to have been 
entered in a wrong class. 
18. AH pigs exhibited at the Coimtry Meetings of the Society shall be sub- 
jected to an examination of their mouths by 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 returned 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. No pig shall be oiled 
or coloured while in the Show- Yard. 
19. If a litter of pigs be sent with a breeding sow, the young pigs must be 
the produce of the sow, and must not exceed two months old. 
20. All disqualifications will be published in the awards of the Judges. 
