The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-12-04 00:00:00

BATH AD WEST OF ENGLAND
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

The nand monthly meeting of this Society wa
bald at Douche Railway Hotel, Taunton, on Tomday,
November 27.
FALMOUTH MZIMIG, 1865. - The Falmouth
deputation reported that they visited Falmouth on
the 13th instant, to inspect the sites proposed to be
placed at the sonny's diapoesl for the meeting of
1868. The site selected for the show yard extends
OTM an area of 26 acres, and pommies the adminges
of proximity to the railway. from which a siding I.
to be made into the yard.
SALLODUAT Mamma, 1867.—This meting was
fixed to comma** on Monday, June 10th: the
entries for stock and implements to close on April
18th • those for poultry, on the 10th of May.
Tire Bronx Pans Simi was accepted and cion-
finned, and ordered to be printed and circulated,
subject to the ooadition that in race any droription
of stook shall be forbidden by legal authority to be
exhibited, or if exhibited, shall be required to be
daughtered, the prizes for each stook will not be
given. The y's prises for stock mounts to
£1,100; those cared by the local committee to
£5O, with an elditional sum of 2100 towards the ex-
penses of a dog-show, supposing the moiety skald
consider it desirable to hold one, which, howover,
they have decided not to do unless owing to legal
dificultios or prudential ineeideratione they are
umiak to hold a full show of cattle, ahem, hens.
and Dim In the prim* shut _nevem. Reelorachiel,
sad Matt-horn cattle are placed on the sum footing.
la the sheep claim ern& additions have been
made to those of the Hereford show; prim
ore now offered hr Leicester, Cotswold, other
loos wool Southdown, Rampsiiiro Down,
Shropshire, Oxford Down, Somme and Dorset
Ron, and Mountain Sheep. In the Bone
ohms there are prises of £3O and £l5 for
egrioultural stallions, foaled before 1865; £2O and
£lO for agricultural stallions foaled in 1865; £l5
and £5 for mares and foals or in foal ; £2O and £lO
for pain of agricultural bones foaled before 1862;
and £2O end £lO for ditto, foaled after 'musty 14,
1821 In the hunter cheese £25 and £lO for mares
or gliding. haled before Jaaaary, 1863; £25 and
210 for alio hided in 1863 ; and £l5 and £5 for
Miss or geldings foaled in 1864. In the book Mem
£lO and £5 for mares or geldings to oarry not Ism
than 15 stone ; £lO and £5 for ditto, to curvy not
ism than 12 stone ; and £lO for the best mare or
gelding posy, not szonding 13 heads high. The
prim offered by the Salisbury Lapel Committee are
£lO and £5 for fire tour-MA Hainpaire Down
shorn, to be shown in their wool and afterwards
shorn in the yard ; and £lO and £5 for Ave six-teeth
or full-mouth ewes, 'abject to the same conditions;
also £2O in sums varying from 25 to ; 10s. for
Berkshire pig.; end 101. for sitescookeering.
In order to sisoluillate the
edamriarrani oe of this andely to
that of the Royal tend Society of Raglead,
It is one of the conditions on the Fi, sheet
that sheep exhibited for any of the society's prises
men hare been really end fairly shorn bare after
the lid of May ia the peer of exhibilioe, and • cer-
tillage of the dots of each shoeriag most be for-
warded to the secretary oil or the Ist of
June.

The poultry prim &beet wee accepted sad cua•
armed ; sad the stewards ot horticulture and Mak
WKS authorised to make ansarcasato oa the woe
male as those at Met year.
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ito—rosuo Doti— —B;tow.—Tbe delisintry leed com-
mittee Laden odered £lOO tower& the expenses of
dog don, °deed Wheal moved —"net in tie
tree of theee net Wag en =label= of adds d tbe
next flatiebary meeting. the MO ot ,160 be 1121068 d
by die waft Mom& the espouse at. dew show,
end Mat s comeminine to mewed to Fern as Prim
I BM" A Meg dieenedes emeed, in the comene at
white the ~lose evade of the opeetion mere folly
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