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Report to the Annual General Meeting , 
At their meeting in November last the Council agreed to 
proposals made by the Finance Committee for the offer, through 
local societies, of Rewards for Skilled Agricultural Labour and 
Long Service under the following conditions : — 
(1) Rewards will be given for the encouragement of Skilled 
Agricultural Labour and Long Service, i.e . : — 
Sheep Shearing, 
Hedging, 
Ditching, 
Draining, 
Ploughing, 
Thatching, 
Long Service, etc., etc. 
(2) Awards may be given each year in the area visited by 
the Show ; provision being made for other districts which 
have not been visited by the Society for a considerable 
period. 
(3) County and Local Societies are asked to co-operate in 
the distribution of such awards as the Royal Agricul- 
tural Society may annually decide upon. 
(4) In the area visited by the Society, the district covered by 
the Farm Prize Competition is to be taken as the basis. 
Local Societies on the border of counties will be con- 
sidered to be within the area of that county which 
contains the largest proportion of their district. 
(5) The Farm Prize Committee will deal with the matter, 
and will be empowered to form a Sub-Committee for 
the purpose, on which local representatives may be 
co-opted. 
(6) All Societies desirous of participating in this scheme 
must be approved by the Royal Agricultural Society and 
registered at their office. 
(7) Championship Awards may be given to be competed for 
by winners of the Royal Agricultural Society’s awards at 
the Local Competitions. 
The Schedule of Prizes for Live Stock, Poultry, Produce, 
etc., at the Shrewsbury Show will be issued early in the new 
year. The Shrewsbury Local Committee have promised a 
handsome contribution of £2,188 towards the prizes, and as the 
Show will be held in the district of Welsh Ponies, Hereford 
Cattle, Welsh Cattle, Shropshire Sheep, Kerry Hill (Wales) 
Sheep and Welsh Mountain Sheep, an extended Classification 
wdl be provided for each of these breeds. In the Riding Pony 
section a new feature will be two classes for Children (1) For 
a Pony to be ridden by a child born in or after 1902; (2) for a 
Pony to be ridden by a child born in or after 1900. 
Offers of Champion and other prizes have been received from 
the following Breed Societies Shire Horse Society, Clydesdale 
Hoise Society, Hunters Improvement and National Light Horse 
Breeding Society, Hackney Horse Society, National Pony 
Society, Shetland Pony Stud Book Society, Welsh Pony and 
