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CONDITIONS RELATING TO LIVE-STOCK. 
1. No bull above two years old will be eligible for a prize unless certified to 
have served not less than three different cows (or heifers) within the three 
months preceding the 1st of June in the year of the Show. 
2. No cow will be eligible for a prize unless certified to have had a live calf, 
either between the date of entry and that of the Show, or within the twelve 
months preceding the date of the Show. 
3. No heifer, except yearlings, entered as in-calf, will be eligible for a prize 
unless she is certified to have been bulled before the 31st of March in the year 
of Show, nor will her owner afterwards receive the prize until he shall have 
furnished the Secretary with a further certificate that she produced a live calf 
before the 31st of January in the subsequent year. 
4. All foals must be the offspring of the mare along with which they are 
exhibited for the prize. 
5. The ewes in each pen must be of the same flock. 
6. Sheep exhibited for any of the prizes (except blackfaced mountain and 
Herdwick sheep, which may be shown in the wool) must have been realty 
and fairly shorn bare 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. Two 
Inspectors will be appointed by the Council 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. 
7. The three sow-pigs in each pen must be of the same litter. 
*8. The breeding sows in Classes 106, 107, 108, 109, and 110, shall be certified 
to have had a litter of live pigs within the six mouths 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 certificate of 
farrowing, as above. 
9. No sow, if above eighteen months old, that has not produced a litter of 
live pigs, shall be eligible to compete in any of the classes. 
10. 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 ; and to affix a placard of disqualification to the pens 
of those animals. 
11. All pigs exhibited at the country 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. 
12. 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 three months old. 
"13. No horse shall be exhibited without a certificate from a Member of the 
Eoyal College of Veterinary Surgeons, as to the state of the animal with refer- 
ence to hereditary diseases, particularly those of the respiratory and visual 
