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the live stock shall all be in the yard by 4 o'clock in the after- 
noon of Saturday, the 16th of July, which will allow of the 
animals recovering from the fatigue of the journey to the Show 
(and thus place those which have travelled from distant counties 
more on an equality with others which have come only a short 
distance), before the Judges commence their inspection on the 
Monday morning following. The Show will close on Friday, 
the 22nd of July, at 4 o'clock, thus enabling most of the stock 
to commence their homeward journey the same evening, and 
to arrive at their destination before the following Sunday 
morning. 
In addition to the usual classes contained in the Stock Prize- 
sheet, the Council have offered for competition at Oxford, prizes 
for Norfolk and Suffolk polled cattle, for Dorset sheep, and for 
Lincoln, as distinguished from other longwoolled sheep. The 
Oxfordshire Agricultural Society has offered special prizes for 
pairs of dairy-cows, for Oxfordshire down-sheep, and for hack- 
neys ; and the Local Committee have offered prizes for a class of 
four-year-old, and for another of old hunters. 
The High Sheriff for Oxfordshire (James Mason, Esq.) has 
offered a piece of plate of the value of one hundred guineas as a 
prize for the best managed farm in the district included within 
a line drawn through the towns of Reading, Great Marlow, 
Aylesbury, Buckingham, Banbury, Stow-on-the-Wold, Lechlade, 
Wantage, and back to Reading. The Council have agreed to 
fix the conditions of competition ; to appoint and to defray the 
expenses of the Judges and a reporter, and to arrange all other 
details. They have determined that an entrance-fee of 21. be 
required from competitors who are members of the Society, 
and 3/. from all others ; that the competition be confined to 
tenant-farmers ; that no farm shall be entered which does not 
contain 200 acres ; that a second prize (of 50/.) be given to the 
occupier of the second-best farm ; that no entry be received later 
than Saturday, the 26th of February ; and that every certificate of 
entry shall contain the name and address of the candidate, and of 
tlie proprietor of the farm, the kind of soil (light or heavy), 
the acreage of the farm, and its distance and bearing from the 
nearest town. 
TheS chedule of Prizes for Implements and Machinery to be 
