54 The Society’s Show of 1905. 
(2) Total Admissions for the three Park Royal Shows. 
Day of Show 
1903 
1904 
1905 
Tuesday ...... 
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2,685 
2,011 
2,770 
Wednesday ..... 
12,057 
9,375 
7,684 
Thursday ..... 
11,403 
10,912 
7,754 
Friday ...... 
20,569 
14.175 
5,770 
Saturday ..... 
18,299 
16,457 
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Totals 
65,013 
52,930 
23,978 
As will be seen from the Statement of Accounts printed in 
the Appendix, the expenses of the Show exceeded the receipts 
to the extent of 7.279/. 17s. Hr/. Of this sum 7,038/. 12s. was 
covered by the amount received in respect of the Guarantee 
Fund, and the balance of 241/. 5s. llr/. was def raved from 
the Society’s ordinary funds. 
Prize Sheet and Regulations. 
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It will be remembered that in 1904 the Finance Committee 
limited the prize sheet to a sum of 5,000/., exclusive of the 
Champion and other special prizes offered by the Breed 
Societies. It was at first proposed that the prize sheet for the 
Show of 1905 should be on similar lines, but early in the year 
Sir Walter Gilbey offered, on behalf of himself and friends, to 
supplement the prizes to the extent of 1,000/., provided that 
the prize sheet for 1905 were based upon that of 1903 instead 
of that of 1904. This offer the Council decided to accept, and 
as a result the amount offered in prizes at the Show of 1905 
reached the total of 7,910/., of which 1,329/. was contributed by 
the Breed Societies. The corresponding figures for the Show of 
1903 were 7,975/. and 1,313/., and for 1904, 6,112/. and 1,165/. 
The handsome amount thus placed at their disposal enabled 
the Stock Prizes Committee to provide a thoroughly satisfactory 
and comprehensive schedule, embracing all descriptions of 
British live stock, and to increase the amounts of the prizes in 
the various classes which had necessarily been reduced in 1904. 
The classes which were cancelled in 1904 owing to insufficient 
entries were restored. Special Milk-yield prizes, and Milk- 
yield prizes for the milch cows in each of the classes for the 
Dairy breeds of cattle, were important novel features. 
Champion and supplementary prizes were contributed by 
the following thirty-four Societies : — 
Humes. — Hunters’ Improvement, Hackney Horse, Shetland Pony Stud 
Book, Polo and Riding Pony, Shire Horse, Clydesdale Horse, and Suffolk 
Horse Societies. 
Cattle . — Shorthorn Society, Lincolnshire Red Short-horn Association, 
Hereford Herd Book, Devon Cattle Breeders’, Sussex Herd Book, Red Polled, 
