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Education section of the Show, where they were inspected 
by thousands of visitors during the week. The Report of 
the Judges, with reproductions of the Prize Plans, Specifica- 
tions, &c., was on sale in the Showyard, 
19. The Seventieth Annual Show of the Society will take 
place at Gloucester from Tuesday, June 22, to Saturday, 
June 26, 1909. The site, which is well adapted to the 
requirements of the Show, consists of portions of meadows 
known as Castle Meads, Oxlease and Portham, situated partly 
in the City and partly in the County of Gloucester, and is 
bounded on the North by the main road to Hereford and 
Monmouth, and on the South by railway sidings of the Great 
Western Company. 
20. The Prize Sheet for Live Stock, Poultry, Produce, &c., 
at the Gloucester Show, which will be issued early in the New 
Year, will be on the same comprehensive scale as the schedules 
of the last three Shows. Towards the Prizes to be offered 
1,345Z. will be contributed by the Gloucester Local Committee, 
and 315?. by the Herefordshire and Worcestershire Agricultural 
Society. Offers of Champion and other Prizes have been 
received from the following Breed Societies : — 
Hunters’ Improvement Society, Polo and Riding Pony Society. 
Welsh Pony Stud Book Society, Shire Horse Society, Clydesdale Horse 
Society, Suffolk Horse Society, Shorthorn Society, Dairy Shorthorn 
(Coates’s Herd Book) Association, Lincolnshire Red Short-horn Association, 
Hereford Herd Book Society, Longhorn Cattle Society, Devon Cattle 
Breeders’ Society, Welsh Black Cattle Society, Red Poll Society, Aberdeen- 
Angus Cattle Society, English Aberdeen Angus Cattle Association, 
English Jersey Cattle Society, English Kerry and Dexter Cattle Society, 
Oxford Down Sheep Breeders’ Association, Shropshire Sheep Breeders’ 
Association, Southdown Sheep Society, Hampshire Down Sheep Breeders’ 
Association, Suffolk Sheep Society, Dorset Horn Sheep Breeders’ Associa- 
tion, Ryeland Flock Book Society, Kerry Hill (Wales) Flock Book 
Society, Lincoln Long-wool Sheep Breeders’ Association, Leicester Sheep 
Breeders’ Association, Society of Border Leicester Sheep Breeders, Wensley- 
dale Blue-faced Sheep-Breeders’ Association, Wensleydale Sheep-Breeders’ 
Association, Lonk Sheep Breeders’ Association, Cotswold Sheep Society, 
Kent or Romney Marsh Sheep Breeders’ Association, Devon Long- 
woolled Sheep Breeders’ Society, South Devon Flock Book Association, 
Exmoor Horn Sheep Breeders’ Association, Cheviot Sheep Society, 
Lincolnshire Curly-Coated Pig Breeders’ Association, the Poultry Club, 
the Gloucestershire Committee of the Poultry Club, Variety Orpington 
Club and the Campine Club. 
Two Challenge Cups, value 50 Guineas each, have been accepted 
for competition at the Society’s Shows : (1) For the Best Mare or 
Gelding in the Riding Classes for Hunters ; (2) For the Best Single 
Harness Horse. The Cups to become the absolute property of the 
exhibitors winning them twice in succession, or three times in all. 
21. A sum of 345 1. is offered by the Gloucester Local 
Committee in the following four Classes, for the best managed 
Farms in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, open to Tenant 
