REAT INTERNATIONAL CATTLESHOW.

Otago Witness, Issue 556, 26 July 1862, Page 6

REAT INTERNATIONAL CATTLESHOW.

The Royal Agricultural Society of England are making extensive preparations for the International Cattle-show to be held at Battersea park during the ensuing month. The ground on which the show is to take place is already staked out to the extent of some twenty five or twenty-six acres, aud workmen are engaged in making the necessary drainage and other requirements for so extensive an exhibition. Nsr is it intended that the exhibition of this year shall be merely confined to the cattle-show and stationary engines to be exhibited at Battersea-pnrk. The council of the Royal Agricultural Society of England have secured two hundred acres of land in the vicinity of the Farningham station of the London, Chatham, and Dover railway, where there will be a public examination of every description of steam cultivators in action. In order to render it the more attractive, arrangements have been made by the council with the London, Chatham, and Dover company to run frequent trains, at merely nominal charges, between Victoria station and Farningham. The programme of the arrangements for the forthcoming exhibition are as follows: — Monday, the 23rd of June, is fixed for the opening of the show. The Ist of May was the last day I of entry, and the number of entries is very lar fr c. Lord Portman is the president of the year. The general arrangements of the show are entrusted to Mr. Brandreth tribbs, the well known and efficient honorary secretary of the Smithfidd Cattle Club, aud Mr. 11. Hall Dare, the secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society. The principle upon which the exhibition will be opened to the various classes of the public will be on the graduated scale, varying from the sum of one sovereign down to one shilling. Governors and members of the Society are to be admitted to the show yards without p \ymen% by tickets issued by the sociciy, but which are not transferable ; : and members of the Highland and Agricultural - societies of Scotland are to be admitted upon the same terms as members of the Society. ■ The show of implements will commence on Monday, the 23rd, aud continue open Tues1 day, the 24th, and Wednesday, the 25th of ] June exclusively, from eight in the morning till eight in the evening. Wednesday, the t 25th, is also appointed as the day for 1 the preliminary inspection of the cattle f and live stock, and for the judges' ex- [ animation and awards. The cattle, for which - prizes arc awarded by the Royal Agricultural 1 Society of England, amounting to the sum of s £1,152, aie divided into 11 sections, comprisI ing 63 classes, viz., short-horned, Hereford, . Devon, Sussex ; long-horned, Norfolk and Suffolk polled, North Wales, South Wales, » Irish (Kerry), Channel Islands — Alderney and Guernsey. The horses are divided into seven J --sections and 26 classes, as follows : — Hunter, t carriage, roadster, Suffolk, agricultural, dray, and ponies. The prizes awarded for horses c , amount to £565, and for the best stud tho- !< rough horse, which, in the opinion of the .; judges, is most cilculated to improve and per0 petuate the breed of the sound thorough-bred II horse for general stud purposes, a first prize of - £100 and gold medal is appropriated, and a 0 prize of £25 fir the second. The sheep are to °l be divided into 12 sections and 36 classes, „ namely, Leicester, Lincoln, Cotswold, Kentish c or Romncy Marsh, long-woolled Jrish — pure - native long-woolled breeds. South Down, Shropshire, Hampshire, and West Country ! Down, Oxfordshire Down, Dorset, and

[Mountain. The aggregate amount of money prizes awarded in the sheep classes reaches £ 1,09 J. The pigs are divided into 15 classes, and money prizes arc offered in these classes of £255. The prizes offered for foreign specimens amount to £750. Thus, in addition to eight gold medals and various

valuable prizes for improvements in agricultural implements alone, the prizes to be awarded by the Royal Agricultural Society of England for the various description of stock exhibited under their auspices are: — For cattle, £1,152; horses, £865 5 sheep, £1,095; pigs, L' 225 ; ! and for foreign competition, L 750 • making a total of L 4,087 in money. The cattle to be exhibited under the auspices of the Highland and Agricultural Societies of Scotland consists of iwer ty-four clashes divided into four sections, viz , polled (Aberdeen and Angus), polled (Galloway), Highland, and Ayrshire ; money prizes, L 468. Horses : Clydesdale, divided into five classes; prizes in money Ll4-i, and five silver meclils. Sheep (eight classes in two sections) : Black-faced and Cheviot ; money prizes LIOB and eight silver medals. The gross amount of prizes given by the Highland and Agricultural Societies of Scotland being thirty eight silver medals and L 720 i 1 money, this makes a gross amount of money prizes in cattle and live stock alone of L 4 807, or with gold and silver medals a sum little short of Ls,ooo.— Lloyds Paper.