Rules of Adjudication. 
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RULES OF ADJUDICATION. 
1. As the object of the Society in giving prizes for cattle, sheep, and pigs, is to 
promote improvement in breeding stock, the Judges in making their awards 
will be instructed not to take into their consideration the present value to the 
butcher of animals exhibited, but to decide according to their relative merits 
for the purpose of breeding. 
2. If, in the opinion of the Judges, there should be equality of merit, they 
will be instructed to make a special report to the Council, who will decide on 
the award. 
3. 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 prize 
to justify an award. 
' 4. The Judges will be instructed to give in a Reserved Number in each class 
of live stock ; viz., which animal would, in their opinion, possess sufficient 
merit for the prize, in case the animal to which the prize is awarded should 
subsequently become disqualified, 
5. In the classes for stallions, mares, and fillies, the Judges in awarding tlie 
prizes will be instructed, in addition to symmetry, to take activity and 
strength into their consideration. 
6. The attention of the Stewards and Judges is particularly called to the 
conditions applying to pigs. The Senior Steward of Live Stock is requested 
to report any malpractices on the part of Exhibitors, and any person found 
guilty will not be allowed to exhibit at future meetings of the Society. 
