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Any superior specimens of the Mechanic Arts.
not above enumerated, may be presented FOR pre-.
MUM, which will be allowed in the discretion
of the committee.
A ploughing match, both with horses and oxen.
will be had, for n purse of So 90 each-to CON.
mence at . o'clock, A. M. of the second day of
the exhibition, the quantity ploughed to be one
eighth of an acre with each team. The decision
of the committee will be governed by the short
est time occupied in ploughing the given guam.
tlty, and by the quality Of the work.
The premiums on Farms and Field Crops will
be awarded al the annual meeting of the Socie.
ty on the first wednesday of January next
Any person wishing to exhibit his Farm for a
premium, shall make application in writing or
otherwise, to one or more of the committee on
farms, between the first of MAY and the first of
July, for that purpose And it shall be the duty
| OF the committee at snch time or times as they
may deem most proper, to examine all Farms on
which such applications made, and make re-
port at the annual meeting aforesaid of the pre-
NUNS awarded; giving in the mean time a con.
else description OF the soil, culture, and man
agement of the Farms, respectively, on which
| premiums are awarded.
I In offering the above premium on Farms, it is
| hoped that an honorable competitor may be ex.
cited, for exhibiting the best cultivated lands
and il is believed if this be the case, much val
liable information, derived from the skill and ex.
perence of our best practical farmers will be
obtalned-whch being embodied in the report OF
the reviewing committee, will be rendered
available and highly useful to the farming com
munity.
The evidence necessary to entitlc an appcan,
on fieid Crops, to premium, will altogether be
lett to the Judgment and discretion of the com
mttee, who in no will award a premium un
less they furnished with undoubted proof of
] nf I'm ant <,c
and crops.
Any live stock owned and kept in the county
for the three months next preceding the Fair
may be entitled to a premium.
| No premium shall be awarded on farming i'm
plements unless invented or improved by the
claimant, or manufactured or kept for sale by
Nun and possessing some distinguishing prop
erty, which shall render them preferable to 9th
ers of the kind, in common use.
No person shall be entitled to a premium un
less he becomes member Of the Society at leas
ten days before the fair.
When there is no competition on articles M
premiums will be awarded, unless the articles
are highly meritorious.
In case the funds of the society should prov,
insufficient, after defraying other necessary ex
pensrs of the society, to pay the full amount o
the premiums offered and awarded,-su de
hciency or sum wanting, shall be deducted by al
equal ratio from all the several awards, and tn,
payment of the balance on each shall cancel tn
award.
But although the Board of Managers deem
prudent to adopt such a proviso,--it should b.
stated that any necessity for the exercise thereof
cannot exist, If the liberality Of the farmers an
the friends of agriculture throughout the county
should in any degree correspond with the impor
lance of the enterprise with the increasing in
terest therein which it is believed is gainn
ground amongst us.
Prize animals mr. I'M nj NJ n nre vi inns I
hibition, will be allowed to compete for the pr
zes; but should the same premium heretofor
given them, be awarded they will receive a Gel
tifcate to that effect instead of the prize.