Report of Stock Prizes Committee. 
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the Committee to draw attention to 
the number of cases in which all the 
prizes offered by the Society in par- 
ticular classes had been awarded by 
the judges at Chester, notwithstand- 
ing that less than six animals were 
exhibited. After consideration, the 
Committee had agreed to recommend 
that Regulation 20 be altered to read 
as follows : — 
except in the case of sufficie lit 
merit, and on the recommendation of the 
judges with the approval of the Steward of 
the Department at the time of judging. 
The Committee had considered the 
case of the two Channel Island 
animals, Mr. Alexander’s Jersey 
heifer Auckland (Class 102, No. 
1,00G) and Messrs. Fowler and de la 
rerrelle’s Guernsey heifer Rosa des 
Belles 2nd (Class 107, No. 1,095), 
which were disqualified at Chester 
in consequence of having been 
entered in the class for “ in-milk ” 
cows, and not having calved before 
the show. To meet such cases for 
the future, the Committee recom- 
mended that Regulation 53 be altered 
to read as follows : — 
No cow entered as in-milk will be eligible 
to compete for a prize unless she be certified 
either at the date of entry, or between the 
date of entry and the lOWi June in the year of 
the show, to have had a living calf— or that 
the calf, if dead, was born at the proper 
time — within fifteen months preceding the 
date of the show. 
The Secretary had been authorised 
to retain the papers entitling “ in- 
milk ” animals to admission to the 
show, until the receipt by him of the 
certificate in question. 
The Committee recommended that, 
in future, Rule 70 of the Prize Sheet 
be altered so as to read as follows : — 
No cattle, sheep, or pigs which have been 
exhibited as fat stock at any show are eli- 
gible to compete for the prizes at the Society's 
Meetings. 
Further letters written on behalf 
of Mrs. Swan with reference to the 
award of the champion prize in 
Classes 116 a and 116 b of the Chester 
Prize Sheet had been read; but the 
Committee recommended that Mrs. 
Swan be informed that the prize had, 
in accordance with the conditions, 
been awarded to the cow “yielding 
the largest quantity of butter in pro- 
portion to her live weight,” and that 
the Council were unable to re-open 
the matter. Sir Humphrey de Tratford 
had written to say that a mistake 
had been made in the age of the 
Berkshire sow pigs, No. 2,002, entered 
by him at the Chester Meeting, such 
pigs having been actually born on the 
24th of December, 1892, and that 
he therefore withdrew all claim to 
the third prize awarded to that pen 
in Class 193. The Committee accord- 
ingly recommended that such pen be 
formally disqualified, and that the 
prize be awarded to the reserve number 
(No. 2,000) exhibited by Mr. T. H. 
Atkins. The Committee had carefully 
considered the steps which should be 
taken for the limitation of the entries 
in consequence of the large number 
of exhibits of live stock at the 
Society’s Meetings ; and in view of 
the limited area available for the 
show at Cambridge next year, they 
recommended that no exhibitor be 
allowed to make more than two 
entries in any one class, and that the 
entry fees to be charged should be as 
follows : — 
To a member : — For the first entry 
in a class, 5s. ; for a second entry in 
the same class, 10s.; for any post 
entry, 15s. 
To a non-member : — For the first 
entry in a class, 1 1 . ; for a second entry 
in the same class, 21. ; for any post 
entry, 3Z. 
The Committee further recommend- 
ed that exhibitors be informed that 
post entries for the Cambridge Meeting 
could only be accepted provisionally, 
subject to sufficient space in the 
Showyard being available. After 
renewed consideration, the Stock 
Prizes Committee offered no objection 
to the prizes for Jams and Preserved 
Fruits which the Seeds and Plants 
Committee proposed should be offered 
for the Cambridge Meeting of 1894 ; 
and they therefore recommended that 
such prizes, together with those for 
Cider and Perry, which they approved, 
should be announced forthwith as 
follows : — 
Cidku and Perry (to be made from Fruit 
grown in 1893, open to both makers and 
growers). £ £ £ 
Cask of not less than 18 and not 
more than 30 gallons of Cider 
made in the autumn of 1893 . 5 3 2 
Twelve bottles of Cider made in 
the autumn of 1893 . . 5 3 2 
Twelve bottles of Cider made in 
any year before 1893 . . 5 3 2 
Twelve bottles of Perry . .532 
