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Monthly Council, May 2, 1894. 
cattle, and practically as many sheep. 
As the Council would be aware, their 
great difficulty was al ways the building 
of the sheds in time for the opening of 
the Show. As boxes were necessary 
for the stallions and brood mares, and 
stalls for the other horse classes, and 
as all the animals of the same breed 
were shown together, and as, moreover, 
different widths of shedding were re- 
quired for bulls and cows, it was im- 
possible for the Surveyor, until the 
entries were closed, and had been 
sorted in the Secretary’s office, to 
arrange his buildings. Hence it was 
always necessary for a considerable 
interval to elapse between the closing 
of the entries and the opening of the 
Show ; and exhibitors did not appear 
always to give due consideration to 
this fact when they represented the 
difficulty felt by them in selecting by 
May 1 the animals from their studs 
and herds which were likely to be in 
the best show condition nearly two 
months later. The Committee thought 
it would be quite possible, so long as 
there was no disarrangement of the 
sheds, to give such exhibitors the op- 
portunity of substituting for an animal 
which had been entered in ordinary 
course, and which the exhibitor subse- 
quently thought better not to send to 
the Show, the entry of another animal 
of the same class which he considered 
might represent him better. This 
would, the Committee hoped, have 
the additional advantage of prevent- 
ing so many empty stalls and pens in 
the Showyard. It would, of course, 
be necessary that there should be a 
formal entry of such substituted 
animal, and that such entry should be 
made in time for the proper parti- 
culars to be given in the forms issued 
to exhibitors and in the catalogue. 
The Committee proposed, therefore, 
to permit a substituted entry to be 
made, upon payment of a fee, up to, 
but not later than, May 31. 
Carrying out these suggestions, he 
formally moved the following resolu- 
tions : — 
1. That, iu view of all the space in the 
Showyard available for the purpose being 
required for the exhibition of the horses, 
cattle, and sheep which have already been 
duly entered in competition for the prizes, 
the Secretary be instructed, iu accordance 
with Regulation 4 of the Prize Sheet, to 
decline all entries of horses, cattle, and sheep 
of which complete particulars are not now 
in the possession of the Society. 
2. That an exhibitor who has already made 
an entry of horses, cattle, or sheep in a 
particular class be permitted, between this 
date and Thursday, the '.list instaDt, to 
withdraw the entry of such animal and to 
substitute for it the entry of another animal 
in the same class, on payment of the differ- 
ence between the amount of the entry fee 
originally paid for the animal withdrawn, 
and the post entry fee : but that, with this 
exception, no post entries of horses, cattle, 
or sheep be accepted. 
Limitation of Entries of Stock. 
The Earl of Coventry said he was 
sorry that the Committee had found 
it necessary to limit the number of 
entries in a class which members had 
been accustomed to make. This was 
an especial hardship in the case of 
yearlings. Some animals in these 
classes improved and others went back 
in condition very much at this time of 
the year, so that it did not follow 
that the animal which was the best on 
May 1, when the entries closed, would 
be the best at the time of the Show. 
He concluded that there had been 
very strong reasons for limiting the 
number of entries. At the same time 
he recognised the proposal as to the 
acceptance of substituted entries up 
to May 31 as partially meeting the 
difficulties felt by exhibitors in the 
matter of selecting their best animals 
for exhibition at the Society’s Shows. 
The Duke of Richmond and 
Gordon said that Lord Coventry had 
spoken in the interests of breeders of 
cattle and horses. He (the Duke) 
wished to speak in the interests of 
the breeders of sheep. It was rather 
a hard case that they should be 
restricted to exhibiting only two 
rams, whereas formerly they could 
exhibit more. He hoped this question 
would be considered in connexion 
with the arrangements for the 
Darlington Meeting next year. 
Mr. Martin said he was sorry that 
it should be necessary for Mr. Sanday 
to propose the resolution as to post 
entries, and he asked whether the 
calculation in regard to the accom- 
modation available had been made 
prior to the resolution as to the exclu- 
sion of pigs. 
Mr. Sanday replied that the calcu- 
lation had been made upon the 
assumption that the pigs would be 
