The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1850-02-26
MISCELLANEOUS.
REGULATIONS FOR THE FAIR.
CONDITIONS ON WHICH PREMIUMS
WILL BE AWARDED.
Field Crops.


ANY api licant for premiums on Field Crops
will be required to notify the Manager in
the town where he resides. as early MS the
18th OF july, that he intends TO he com
pctltor, and it shall be the duty OF the man
arer TO see Cor cause to he seem the crop
while growing and to furnish the applicant
with schedule who will Le required TO fur
nish the answers relating TO his crop.
The quantity OF the land specified in This
list of premiums must in all eases be in one
piece, be measured, and the entire crop har-
vested, and measured, and the claimant make
oath to :he same.
I he above named schedule, together with
samples OF al least four quarts Of Wheat.
Corn, Rye, Oats, Peasc, Beans and Buck
wheat, to be left with the Secretary or As
>istant Secretary, on or before the 10Th day
of January, for examination by the commit
tee. who are to meet the day previous TO the
annual meeting of the Society; hut no sec
ond premium will be awarded to the same in
diyidual for tie same kind Of crop.
Stock.
Applicants for premiums on Animals will
be prepared with written specifications. ac-
cuTaicly detailing the age, and method Of
keeping if Sheep, and the time Of shearng;
and those drawing premiums shall be re-
quircd 10 make oath TO the correctness OF
said statements, which statements shall he
delivered to the manager or clerk on enter
ing the animals.
Premiums will not be awarded on Live
Stock, unless the claimant shall have been
the owner of the same at least three months
previous to the Fair.
All competitors for premiums on animals
shall lodge a specification with the Manager
in the town in which the applicant resides,
AT least four days before the Fair, and it shall
he the duty of such Managers to meet at
the Town Room on the daN before the Fair,
at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, that all the en-
tries may be completed previous TO the Com
mitees' assembling for the purpose OF re
ceving their Specifications, at 10 o'clock on
the day of the Fair
Farming Implements.
No premium will be awarded on any
Farming Implement, unless invented by the
claimant and presenting some new and use
full improvements or constructed by him, and
possessing some useful property which rem
ders it decidedly preferable to others Of the
kind in common use, or patented, the right
to make and yend in this County being
owned by the claimant,
Members presenting any Farming lmPle-
menis for Premiums will be required to fur
nish written descrriion-of the particular
improvement or distinguishing property for
which they claim Premium.
Dairy.
Competitors on Butter and Cheese are
required to furnish full and detailed state
ment of the number OF Cows kept by them.
the mannev of keeping, and the process Of
manufacturing the articles presented.
General Rules.
None of the regular premiums offered
shall be awarded to any person unless he
shall have paid one dollar. and signed the
Constitution of the Society, on or before ~
O'Clock the day previous TO the Fafr,
No Animal or Article which has drawn
the first Premium at former FAIR in this
County shall be again presented for Premi-
UNI in the same class Nor shall any mem
Der be entitled to more than one premium
on The same kind of crop, article. or stock,
in the same class, except in the case OF the
ten best yoke OF Oxen. from one town, in
that case thu owner may compete for the pre-
mum on the best single yoke of Oxen. To
be entitled TO q premium, the crop must be