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indeed, because the number of shows at which animals compete, and their 
coming year after year, from calves up to full maturity, makes all the 
notable stock so well known, that the best precaution is to have Judges in 
whose honour and integrity perfect confidence may be placed. The award 
also was, as far as possible, kept secret until it was publicly announced at 
the Council dinner, which took place on the judging day. 
At Oxford the awards were apparently not announced until 
the great dinner, held in the quadrangle of Queen’s College, on 
the afternoon of the Show day ; but at Cambridge, in the follow- 
ing year (as will be seen on p. 226), they were made known on the 
evening previous to the opening of the Show-yard. 
As the list of Judges at Oxford has never been published in 
the Society’s Journal, I subjoin it below : — 
List of Judges at Oxford Meeting, 1839. 
Class I. [Short- 
horns.] 
Mr. T. Charge 
Mr. W. Smith 
Mr. J. Hall 
Class II. [Here- 
fords.] 
Earl Talbot 
Mr. J. Ashdown 
Mr. W. Warner 
Class III. [Devons.] 
Mr. W. Wyndham 
Mr. E. Pestur 
Mr. W. Umbers 
Class IV. [Cattle of 
ANY OTHER BREED.] 
Mr. W. F. Paley 
Mr. T. Charge 
Mr. J. Ashdown 
Class V. [Dairy 
Cattle.] 
Mr. C. Stokes 
Mr. S. Bennett 
Mr. W. Smith 
Class VI. [Oxen.] 
Mr. W. Wiley 
Mr. Short 
Mr. W. Pratt 
Class VII. [Horses.] 
Lord Moreton 
Sir F. Lawley, Bart. 
Mr. Quarterman 
Class VIII. [Leices- 
ter Sheep.] 
Sir F. Lawley, Bart. 
Mr. W. Wiley 
Mr. T. Chapman 
Class IX. [South- 
down or OTHER 
Short - woolled 
Sheep.] 
Mr. T. Weall. 
Mr. T. Northeast. 
Mr. H. Overman. 
Class X. [Long- 
woolled Sheep.] 
Mr. Clark 
Mr. R. Martin 
Mr. Edmunds 
Class XI. [Pigs.] 
Mr. Dodd 
Mr. Salter 
Mr. Stokes 
Class XII. [Extra 
Stock, Implements, 
Roots and Seeds.] 
Mr. II. Handley 
Mr. J. Parkes 
Mr. Morton 
The following were the awards of the Judges, as announced 
by Mr. Handley, M.P., at the great dinner held on the Wednes- 
day afternoon : — 
Prizes awarded at the English Agricultural Society’s 
Meeting at Oxford, Wednesday, July 17, 1839. 
Bull . 
Cow in mi{k , 
Class I. — Shorthorns. 
30 sovs. 
15 
/ Mr. Thos. Bates, 
\ Yorkshire . 
Pit to 
Entries 
Kirkleavingtop, ]_ 
ditto 
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