Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-08-06
.rr LIST OF PREMIUMS
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Regulations of the Fair.

Regulations of the Fair. 3,
All competitors and exhibitors must become
members of the Society. Membership fee, so
cents. Any person may become member by
application and payment of the fee at any time
before or during the continuance of the Fair
! Competitors will be allowed until one o'clock
P NJ, of the first day of the Fair, to present
and have their Animals and articles recorded
by the Secretary. Animals and articles will
be received for exhibition, but not for premi
ums after that time. Competitors and exhib-
itors will call at the Office of the Executive
Committee, and receive directions where to
place their animals and articles, and also cards
with numbers, to be carefully attached to
each upon placing them in their proper loca-
tions. @ -.
No animal or article entered for the premi-
um shall be removed from the grounds until
the close of the fair, unless by permission OF
the Executive Committee, and no premium
will be paid when awarded to such, if taken
away in violation of this rule.
HORSES, CATTLE, &c.
| Competitors for premiums on Horses, Neat
! Cattle or other live stock, Field or Garden
crops, products of the Dairy, and Honey and
Sugar, must lodge with the Secretary writ
ten statement-of the pedigree, blood, mode
of feeding, if prepared for the butcher, and
other characteristics, as far as may be relating
to the crop presented the full process of man
ufacturing preserving and preparing for mar
ket, all articles of the dairy presented the
kind of hive mode of taking the honey, (the
bees not to be destroyed, and the process OF
making and clarifying the sugar presented.
No premium viii be awarded to any live
stock not raised in this county, unless the
claimant be citizen of the county. and own
er of the stock, and when for breeding purpos-
es said stock shall have been brought into
the county for the express purpose Of improv-
ing the breeds.
! SHEEP
Competitors for premiums on Bucks will be
required to exhibit to the judges sample of
| the fleece last shorn from said bucks, and also
Q written statement of the weight of the fleece
and condition of the wool competitors for
premiums on Ewes are required also to exhibit
samples of the last shorn fleece and q writ
ten statement of the average weight of the same
and the condition of the wool
MICH COWS
Competitors for premiums on milch COWS
will observe the following rules
l. The cows TO be kept on grass only dur
ing the trial. and for ten days previous thereto
The time of trial, to be the first ten days of
July, and the first ten days of September.
> A statement to be made containing the
age and breed of the COW, and time of calving,
the quantity of milk in weight and also of but
ter made during each period of ten days
3. The statement of facts to be made 10 the
judges, certified by the competitor and one
other person conyersant Herewith.
Competitors for premiums on Grain ant
other field crops will observe the following
rules
! l. The quantity of land specified for eacf
crops, must be measured into one piece.
g The entire field must be measured. and one
busbel of the specified grain and seeds must b
weighed, and presented FOR examination by the
judges.
s. The land must be measured, and the croI
weighed and measured in presence of three
competent and disinterested persons, and GER
titled by them in writing.
A committee of judges viii meet at th'
borough of Towanda next, to adjudge such
crops as cannot be gathered aud prepared fol
exhibition at the Annual Fair.
Competitors for premiums on plowing vii
observe the following rules:
l. Land will be measured and marked on
containing Is acre each. The time allowed
for plowing will be for horse teams, As min
utes, and OK teams 90 minutes. Awards vii
be made for best plowing within the prescrib-
ed time
2. The furrow must not be more than /:
inches wide nor less than inches deep.
g. Each plowman to drive his own team.
4. No plowman TO start until the signal i:
given by the chairman of the judges or some
person appointed for that purpose.
| PLows.
The quality of the plows entered for premi
umS must be determined by actual trial, il
presence Of the judges on Farming Implements
BACON, HANS, &c.
Competitors for premiums on bacon hams
preserved meats, dried fruits and other arti
cles in this class are required to furnish writ
ten statement of the mode Of curing and pre-
serving the same.
HoRsE-SHoEISG.
Competitors for premiums on Horse and o!
shoeing must be the makers Of the shoe used
aud the animal shod must be brought on lh
grounds for inspection.
NANCFAcTURES.
All Manufactured articles entered for premi
ums, must be the products of this county, AM
made BY or under the direction of the eompe
titor.
| ARTICLES NOR ENUMERATED IN THE LIST, &c.
All articles not contained in the list Of pre-
miums, viii be referred to committees-oRe o
ladies and another of grntlenen-on enumer
ated articles, TO he adjldged in their respec
) tive departments Persons presenting sncl
will attach card TO each article, with th
word thereon =" To the Judges on snumera