Rules of Adjudication. 
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] 1. No heifer, 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 the Show, 
nor will her owner afterwards receive the Prize until he shall have furnished 
the Secretary with a further certificate before the 31st of January in the sub- 
sequent year, that she produced a living calf; or that the calf, if dead, was 
born at its proper time. 
12. Shorthorns. — Each animal entered in the Shorthorn Classes must be 
certified by the Exhibitor to be entered, or eligible to be entered, in Coates's 
« Herd-Book.' 
Sheei". 
13. All ranis, except shearlings, must have been used in the preceding year. 
14. 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 Show; and the date 
of such shearing must form part of the Certificate of Entry. 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. 
Pigs. 
15. The three sow-pigs in each pen must be of the same litter. 
16. The breeding sows in Classes 156, 160, 164, 168, and 172, shall be 
certified to have had a litter of Uve 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 certifi- 
cate of farrowing, as above. 
17. No sow, above eighteen months old, that has not produced a litter of 
live pigs, shall be eligible to compete in any of the classes. 
18. 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. 
19. 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. Every pig which 
shall be found on examination by the Inspector to be oiled or coloured will be 
disqualified for competition and removed from the Show- Yard ; as well as any 
pig which shall be oiled or coloured while in the Show- Yard. 
20. If a litter of jjigs be sent with a breeding sow, the young pigs must be 
the produce of the sow, and must not exceed two months old. 
EULES OF ADJUDICATION. 
1. As the object of the Society in giving jDrizes for cattle, sheep, and pigs, is to 
promote improvement in hreeding 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 
