The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-07-04
RULES AND REGULATIONS,
LIST OF PR M L u M s,
OF THE
SEVENTH ANNUAL FAIR
MARSHALL COUNTY
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
TO BE HILD AT
p L Y Nj q U L H
ON THE
17th, 18th & 18th Days of October. 1851.
RULES AND REGULATIONS.

RULES AND REGULATIONS.
1st. ENrnEs.-All entries must be made before
10 O'Clock, A. NJ, of the second day of the Fair
and to assist the Secretary and prevent much con
fusion, those who intend to make entries are re-
quested to call OIL the Secretary and make wha,
entries they can before the first day of the Fair.
%. Entries m ust, in all cases, be made on the
Secretary's Books, and the entry ticket properly
attached, before articles or animals are admitted
within the uclosure. No article entered fo- a
Premium can be removed from the ground, except
by consent of the Executive Committee, until the
close of the Fair.
Sd. No article or animal can compete tor more
than one premium, unless as part of collection in
the same class or in " Sweepstakes"
4th. No Premiums will be paid to those not
members, and all the partners of any firm must be
made members, before being entsted to compete
for premiums.
ADMISSIONS.
lst. BY membership tickets, at 81, admitting the
owners family-except males 81 years of
age-good during the Fair.
ID. By single tickets, at 25cts each, good for
one adm ission only. and dropped at the gate, and
no check for return.
Sd. On the second and tnird days of the Fair
Carriage tickets be had at the Secretary's
Office, at 6fty cents for each admission by all who
wish to visit the Fair Grounds by ride along the
carriage way, but ne one will be exempt thereby
from procuring single ticket before entering the
Fair Grounds.
4th. Cards admitting saddle-horses, 25 cents,
but the rider must procure membership or single
ticket before entering the Fair Grounds.
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
lst A card will be furnished to exhibitors mum.
bring to correspond with the entries the books
Of the Secretary, which card must be securely at
tached to the article exhibited
cd. All articles entered for premiums must
have been owned by the member presenting it, at
least ten days before the Fair and all products (
the Farm, Dairy, Orchard, Garden. Grain house
Mechanical productions must have been produ-
ced by the exhibitor.
81. Competitors all articles requiring state
ment, must attach to the article or specimen. a
statement in writing for the Of the Committee,
embracing ali the facts required by the rules of the
Society
4th- Competitors OH Farms must furnish state
ment in writing, sho wing the size and arrange
ment of their farms, size of fields, orchards, bull
dings, and their cost, gardens. &C. and if on cu-
tivated farms, the mode of cultivation. kind of
previous crops, the present years crop, and the
quantity produced per
5th. Competitors ON butter must state in wri-
ting the rumbcr of milk ings, treatment of the
milk, mode OF churning and working the butter,
quantity Of salt used and what kind of food the
received.
9th. Competitors on cheese must state in wri
ting the time it was made, the number Of COWS
milked, the number of mi kings. whether any
cream was used, the quantity of rennet used, the
mode of pressing and treatment of the cheese
while seasoning.
9Th. Persons entering Cakes, Pies, Jellies, Pre-
serves, Jams, Wines, Bread or Biscuit shall fur
nish the c ommittee with the Recipe after which
they were made, stating ingredients, quantity,
mode of preparation and mat ing.
INSTRUCTIONS TO JUDGES
1st. When majority of the Judges on aay class
are present, they shall constitute quorum and be
authorized to award premiums and the first on the
list of those present shall be Chairman bat when
ward.
I'd. When there is no competition. no premium
will be awarded, unless the article posses superior
merit.
3D. No committee will be permitted to award
discretionary premiums, except on articles entered
in their class and not in the published list.
4th The Judges on animals will have regard to
symmetry, early maturity, size and general charac
teristics of the breed which they Judge. They
will make proper allowance for age. feeding, &c,
and will not give encouragement to over fed an.
imals in breeding classes.
9th. No premiums will be awarded to barren
females, shown IN breeding classes.
9th. The Judges in each class will give full re-
port of their awards and their for the same
in writing, making such mention of other articles
in the same llss which may be worthy of especial
notice, as they may deem proper.