Reports of Committees. 
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Meeting, but the Committee were un- 
able to recommend the adoption of 
the suggestion. A suggestion from 
the Suffolk Horse Society, that the 
names of the Society’s veterinary 
inspectors at the Show, and the classes 
to which they were allotted, should 
be published at an early date, was 
considered ; and the Committee re- 
commended that the names of the 
veterinary inspectors should be pub- 
lished, with the names of the judges, 
in the March number of the Journal. 
To indicate the particular classes 
allotted to each veterinary inspector 
for inspection would, in the opinion 
of the Committee, be impracticable. 
The Committee had also considered 
a further suggestion from the same 
society, that the veterinary examina- 
tion should be extended to fillies as 
well as to s'allions and brood mares ; 
but they did not recommend any 
alteration in the present arrange- 
ments. 
Mr. Bowen- Jones said that a good 
deal of disappointment had been 
caused among sheep-breeders because 
the classes for ewe lambs had not 
been retained amongst the prizes 
offered by the Society. At the Cam- 
bridge Meeting prizes for these 
classes had been offered by the Local 
Committee, and they had proved a 
great success. They were regarded 
by sheep-breeders generally as having 
proved very satisfactory, and he 
believed the entries were greatly 
admired by the public. He had 
attended the meeting yesterday, when 
he had proposed that the ewe lamb 
classes should be recognised by the 
Society, and the same prizes offered 
for them next year at Darlington by 
the Society as were offered for them 
this year through the Local Commit- 
tee. The Stock Prizes Committee 
had, however, decided not to include 
these classes at Darlington, and he 
therefore felt it his duty, as being a 
member of the National Sheep 
Breeders’ Association, which had 
passed a resolution in favour of these 
classes, to ask the Council to give the 
same prizes for these classes as were 
given by the Local Committee this 
year. Accordingly he moved the 
inclusion of these prizes as an amend- 
ment to the report of the Committee. 
Mr. A. J. Smith having seconded 
the amendment, 
Mr. Sanday explained that the 
Committee, whilst in agreement with 
Mr. Bowen-Jones and the National 
Sheep Breeders’ Association as to the 
value of these classes, felt that at this 
stage it would be impossible to agree 
with the suggestion, because it would 
necessitate the recasting of the whole 
of the prize-sheet for the present 
year. It was a subject that might 
very well be considered for another 
year, but there was certainly a con- 
sensus of opinion upon the Committee 
that it could not be dealt with at the 
present moment. 
Mr. Bo wen- Jones’s motion was 
then negatived, and the letter from 
the National Sheep Breeders’ Associa- 
tion on the subject was ordered to be 
referred to the Stock Prizes Committee 
for consideration next year. 
A further amendment by Colonel 
Curtis-Haywakd, to the effect that 
third prizes should be given by the 
Society in the class for Jersey yearling 
bulls, not being seconded, fell to the 
ground, and the report of the Com- 
mittee was then adopted. 
On the motion of Mr. Sanday, an 
offer, received since the meeting of 
the Committee, of two champion 
gold medals from the Hackney Horse 
Society, for the best stallion and the 
best mare or filly exhibited in the 
Hackney classes at Darlington, was 
accepted, with thanks. 
Implement. 
Mr. Frankish (Chairman) reported 
that the Committee had considered 
and approved the following regula- 
tions drafted by the Society’s Consult- 
ing Engineer in connection with the 
exhibition of oil-engiDes : — 
(a) Petroleum oils with high flashing 
point, to which the Petroleum Acts do not 
apply, must be stored in the original (40- 
gallon ) casks, the maximum number of casks 
not to exceed three in number ; these to be 
placed in the space at the back of the stand 
in such a manner as the Stewards may 
direct. 
(b) In the case of fixed oil-engines in 
motion, the exhaust must be led up, outside 
the shed, vertically to the height of the 
ridge of the roof, and must be kept well clear 
of the canvas. 
The prize-sheet and regulations for 
the exhibition of implements at the 
