The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-09-03

this Society, will be held in this town, on We'd
nesday, the eth day Of October neat An Off
Ger of the Society has furnished us with list
the premiums and regulations agreed on last
April, from which we make the following alb.
stract:
PREMIUMS FOR STOCK.
For the best BULL, $l2; next, SO. Best
Bull Calf above months old, Sc; next, $4.
Best MICH COW over years, from
stock of five or more, SIS; next best kept with
Others or alone, $40; next, So; next So.
Best HEIFER, l year DID, S. next, 81.
Best, 2 years old, So next, So Best 8 wears
old, S. next, &c. Best Heifer Calf, over d
months, So; next, 81.
Best WORKING OXEN, not less than d
years DID, $l2; next, 3d. next, $8, next. rs.
Best years old STEERS, So; next, s.. Best
2 years old do, 81; next, 81. Best ysarling
do, s..
Best fat OK, regard being had to mode and
expense of fatting, $l5 ; next, $40.
Best MERINO RAM, 81; next, IS. Best
MERINO EWES, four or more, So next AS.
Best MIXED SHEEP, Ewes or Wethers, FIVE
or more, So. Best native RAM, S. Best ma.
tive EWES, four or more, 81.
Best BOAR, from months to % years old.
So; next, SO. Best breeding SOW, which
shall have had at least one litter of pigs, and
to be kept another year, S.; next, So. Best
weaned PIGS, two or more, SO.
Applicants for premiums on Cows must, at the
time of entry, file certificate in writing of the
product of milk, or of butter and cheese made
from the Cow from the LIST to the Doth of June,
and from the 10Th to the Both of September ;
also stating the time of the Cows caiving, the
quality of the calf, and, if the COW has had 9th
er keeping than by pasture, of what kind and in
what quantity it has been.
All stock for premium must have been raised
in the County, except Bulls, Rams, and Bears,
which must be kept in the County one year af-
ter the show.
The usual allowance will be made for the
travel of the animals. Notice must be given
of all stock intended for premium, by letter or
personal application to the Recording Secreta-
ry on or before the day preceding the show, at
9 o'clock in the evening. Owners of cattle ex-
hibited liz the yoke, are requested to bring a
chain to each yoke in order to secure them to
the posts.
MANUFACTURES.
For the best BROADCLOTH, 90 Yards or
more, 1900; next best, 500.
Best CASHMERE, T yard wide, and not
less than 90 yards long, 1000; next best, 500.
Best SATINETT, 30 yards or more, 600.
Best CARPETING, yard wide, and 90
yards in length, 1900; next best, not less than
yard wide 800.
Best Cotton SHIFTING, 80 yards, 500
Best Cotton Sheeting, 90 yards, yard wide,
500. Best Bcdticking, 40 yards, 500.
Best WOOLLEN CLOTH, (not fannel)
30 yards, yard wide or more, S. next best, S.
Best FLANNEL, 20 yards5 yard wide, Sc;
next, 500.
Best bleached SHIFTING, 30 yards, ward
wide, linen warp and cotton or tow filing, 500
next, 800.
Best wove CovERLET, 81 yards wide, 400
Best linen or tow DIAPER, 90 yards, II
yard wide, 500; do. do, yard wide, 400.
Best Woollen Half Stockings, 2 pr, 300 /,
The finest Grass Bonnet, 500
Best BUTTER, 80 h., 700; next 500
Best CHEESE, 100 lbs, 1000; next, 500
Best SOLE LEATHER, 100 lbs, 500 Bes
manufactured CALF SKINS, doz., 800.
Best Goat Skin MOROCCO dozen, 500
The Leather must be accompanied with
certificate of the time and manner of tanr ing.
The Butter and Cheese must be accompanies
with particular account of the manner il
which the same was made and preserved, ant
the Butter must be exhibited in plain, unpant
ed boxes or tubs, and the owner must certify
the quantity made in his dairy, and the numbe
a. of Cows kept between the first Gay of June ant
the first day of October.
Every article of Manufacture offered for pre-
MUM must be entered with the Recording Sec
rotary, and delivered to the person appointed
to receive them, before ii o'clock, A. M. thu
day preceding the Exhibition. And all manu-
features, when presented, must have private
mark and any public or known mark must b.
completely concealed so as not to be known b
the Committeeman must the proprietors b
present when they are examined; and tn
goods must not be removed until o'clock @
the day of Exhibition, unless by permission @
the Committee of Arrangements-in default @
either of which acquisitions, the articles vii
not be entitled to consideration or premium
PLoUeHING MATCH.
Two yoke of Oxen: first plough, 800
ploughman 400; driver, 200; second plough
600; ploughman, 400 driver, 200. On
yoke of Oxen without driver: first plough
500; ploughman, 400; second plough, 600
ploughman, 400; third plough, 500; plough
man, 800; fourth plough, and ploughman, 4,0(
The competitors in the ploughing mate
must not only own their respective pouchs an
cattle, but the ploughs must be those general
used on their farms and the ploughman, if h
be not the owner, must be man employed o
the owners farm. Competitors must give nc
tce in writing to tho Recording Secretary, o
or before the 25th day OF September next. TIL
ploughs must be ON the ground designated
ready to start together, precisely at 8 o'clocl
A. NJ, as this will be the first public bushes
of the day attended to.
For the best plantation of WHITE OAl
TREES, not less than one acre, nor fewer tina
one thousand trees per acre, to be raised from tn
Acorn, and which trees shall be in the best thri,
ing state on the LIST day Of September, 1880, tn
premium to be paid TO the proprietor Of the Ian
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