The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-04-01
RULES AND CONDITIONS.

RU hES AN CONDITIONS.
FIELD CRoPs. The quantity of land
specified in the list Of Premiums must
in all cases BIO in one piece, be measured
and the entire crop harvested and meas
ured.
The applicant must make oath to his
specification, if required by the commit.
tee.
The specifications, together with sam.
plos of at least four quarts, if the crop
entered be Wheat, Corn, Rye, Oats.
Peas, Beans, or Buckwhest, must DO left
with tho Secretary before noon of the
day preceding the annual maeting, for
examination of the committee on Field
Crops, who are to meet on that day.
Corn entered for a premium must BE-
measured and weighed at the time of
husking, and two bushels OF the same i'm.
mediately left with manager, until the
first day Of January. aud then shelled,
weighed, aud writton statement of each
measurement made-and sworn to by the
claimant if required BY the committee.
No second premium will be awarded
to the same individual, for the same kind
of crop, in any year.
SrocK Applicants for premiums on
Animals should accurately state the az
and method of keeping and, if Shoep,
the time Of sheariug
No premium shall be awarded on
Sheep which were shorn before the first
day of Nay, the same year, or in other
than the usual manner or on Lambs
dropped before the first day of March !;
and applicants for premiums must make
oath to tho correctness of their state.
ments II these points, ifrequirod by the
committee
Premiums will not be awarded on live
stock unless the claimant shall have
been the owner Of the same at least three
month previous to the Fair.
All competitors for premiums on an.
imals must lodge specifications with
some officer of the Society before noon
of the first day of the Fair and it shall
be the duty of the Managers to meet on
the day previous, at 10 o'clock in the
forenoon, in order that all tho entries
may BIO seasonably completed and the
specifications that have been received
duly filed.
FARMING IMPLEMENTs-No premium
will be awarded on any Farming Imple.
mcnts, unless invented by the applicant,
and presenting some new and useful i'm
provemont, or constructed by HIM, and
possessing some useful property which
renders it decidedly preferable to others
Of the kind, in common use or patented
the right to make and vcnd in this coun.
ty being owned by the applicant
Members presenting any Farming i'm.
pleneu. for premium will be required
to furnish a written description Of the
particular improvement or dis,ine uisbed
property fer which they claim premi.
UNI.
DAIEY.-Competitors on Butter and
Cheese are required to furnish full and
detailed statement of tho number of
cows kept, by them, tho manner of keep
ing, and the process of manufacturing
the articles presented.
GENERAL RULES. Fees Of member.
ship may be received until noon of the
day of the Fair.
No animal or article which has drawn
the first premium at former Fair in
this county shall again b. presented
for premium in the same class
No member shall be entitled to more
than one premium on tho 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 which case, the
owner may compete for premium Oh
tue best single yoke of Oxen.
To be entitled to premium the crop
must have been raised and the article
manufactured within the county since
the last Fair.
Discretionary premiums or gratuitics
may be awarded on articles not enumer-
ated for premiums, should there be any
presented deemed meritorious and worthy
Of encouragement aud funds will be
placed at the disposal Of each of the u.
warding committees, 10 the amount o!
five dollars, to be appropriated for dis.
cretionary premiums.
All reports Of committees shall be
made in writing and signed by the mem,
bcrs asserting thereto.
All awards Of premiums, claimed by
any member, must be drawn from the
treasury previous TO, or on the day OF
the next annual meeting, or they shall
remain as contributions to the Society's
funds.
The committees will assemble at the
officers tent, OH the ground, to receive
the list of competitors for premiums in
the several classes, who have complied
with the conditions and rules of the So
clety. Competitors can receive theil
cards at the same place until IL o'clock
on the first day of the Fair.
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