Rules of Adjudication. 
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EULES OF ADJUDICATIOX. 
1. As tlie 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, tliey 
■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 sufScient 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 the 
prizes will be instructed, in addition to symmetry, to take activity and 
strength into their consideration. 
6. The Judges will be instructed to deliver to the Director their award, 
signed, and stating the numbers to which the prizes are adjudged, before they 
leave the yard, noting any disqualifications. They are to transmit under 
cover to the Secretary, before the 1st of August, 1868, their reports on the 
several classes in which they have adjudicated, in order that each report may 
be included in the General Report of the Exhibition of Live Stock at 
Leicester, to be published in the Journal of the Society. 
