The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-09-06
( ADDISON COUNTY
AGRICULTURE SOC.ETY.
RULES AND CONDITIONS.

FIELD CRoPs.-The quantity of land
Specified in the list OF premiums must in
hIl cases be in one piece, be measured and
the entire crop harvested and measured.
\ The applicant must take oath to his
Specifications, if required by the commit
tee and shall give detailed account Of
the mode of raising the crop lie enters for
premium, according to the form specified
i'll the blanks hereinafter mentioned
Blanks will be in the hands of each Of
fccr of the Society and Town Manager,
ior the use of applicants with questions,
which they will receive and fill out, for
the use of the committees, to be entitled
TO premium.
The specifications, together with sam
pies os at least four quarts, if the crop
entered be wheat, oats, peas, beans or
buckwheat, must be left with the Secre.
tary before noon of the day preceding the
Annual Meeting for examination OF the
Committee on Field Crops, who are to
meet on that day.
No second premium will be awarded TO
the same individual, for the same kind OF
crop in any year.
All competitors must lodge their entries
with the Secretary on the first dav of the
Fair, and no articles or stock presented
after nine O'Clock OF the second day will
be entitled to premium.
Premiums shall rot be awarded on live
stock unless the claimant shall be the ow-
ner of the same.
FARMING IMPLEMENTS. No premium
will he awarded on any Farming Imple.
ment, unless invented by the applicant,
and presenting some new and useful I'M
provemrnt, Or constructed by him and
possessing some useful property which
renders it decidedly preferable to Others
of the kind, i'll common use or the pat
ented right to make and vcnd in this
country being owned by the applicant.
Members presenting any farming i'm
plement tor premium will be required to
furnish written description of the partic-
ular improvement or Distinguishing prop
crty Tor which they claim a premium.
DARY.-Competitors for premiums on
Butter and Cheese, are required TO make
a statement of the number of cows kept
the manner of keeping as well us the
time when the same was made.
No animal or article which has drawn
the first premium at a former Fair in this
county shall again be presented for pre-
MUM in the same class.
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petinG for Town Premiums that have be-
fore drawn premiums in the same class.
No stock or crop shall be entitled to
premium where the owner of the same
acts as one Of the committee in the class
in which it is offered
No member shall be entitled TO more
than one premium on the same kind of
crop, article or stock, in the same class,
except in tue case Of the ten best yoke of
Oxen from one town in which case. the
owner may compete for premium on tho
best single yoke of Oxen.
To be entitled to premium, the crop
must have been raised and the article
manufactured within the county sinco the
last Fair
All reports of committees shall be made
in writing and signed by the members as-
senting 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 Socicty's funds.
! The committees will be assembled at
the officers tent, on the ground, At nine
O'Clock on the second day of the Fair, to
receive the list of competitors for prcmi-
u'ps in the several classes, who have com-
piled with the conditions and rules of the
Society.
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