The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-02-18
SpEc1A1. PREMIUMS AND RuLEs.


At the winter meeting of the Executive
Board of the Illinois State Agricultural 30
ciety--held at Springfield, January 9TH 1868,
the following special premium list and rules
were adopted on Farms, Market Gardens,
Nurseries, Artificial Groves, Orchards and
Drainage, open to competition in the state
of Illinois, and resolution passed that cop
les of them be sent to each newspaper In
the State with a request that they puohsn
the same, or notice at length.
Entries may be made at any time before the
first of June, 1858. $500.
Best improved and cultivated farm for the uses
to which it is applied, not less than one hun.
ared and sixty acres. 800 and gold medal
Best improved and cultivated farm,
not less than forty acres and less .r
than one hundred and sixty $4,000
acres for the uses to which II is
anpl;ed ...$ 500 and gold medal,
The awarding committee will be appointed by
the Board, and make the examinations during the
summer and fall of 1868. The decision will be
made at the January meeting, 1863
Each exhibitor must prepare and fle with the
Corresponding Secretary, before the January
meeting. 1859, statement embodying the follow
ing facts and items
l. Locality, township and county,
Q. Diagram with explanations, showing, LIST.
The NUMBER OF acres CULTIVATED Zu lno NUM-
Der of acres in pasture and meadow. 3D. number
of acres in timber. 18th. Divisions of fields and
kinds of fences. the roads and water courses
each field designated by number.
3. Character of soils and subsoils, whether
drained, and if so, when and how.
4. clear. succinct account of his mode OF
farming rotation of crops. breeds and number of
stock produced and handled, how, when and
where the products of his farm are usually market
ed, the principal implements used in his culture
and harvesting of crops amount and kind OF la
Dor employed, and particular statement OF his
entire farming operations for 1857 and 1868.
showing the profit and loss particular crops
and products of the year.
The whole verified by affidavit of exhibitor.
From exhibitors of dairy farms, the following
additional particulars viii he required;
/. What is believed to be the most productive
and profitable grass for hay. What for grazing
and what fer soiing.
2. The mode ofcutting and curing hay.
3. What breeds or crosses nre deemed the best
mixers.
t. Winter feed and care of stock.
s. Summer feed and care of stock.
@. The process of making and curing cheese,
including description of mode of preparing AID
using the rennet daily weight (if known) and
treatment of the milk, apparatus used, weight of
daily product, process of manufature, packing
and marketing.
l. Butter how. when and in what quantity
made.
s. The consumption of the whey and value of
the same for feeding swine.
9. Samples of cheese aud butter 10 be exhib-
tied at the winter meetings of the Board, 1859.
to wit /:
Five pounds Of butter made the first week in
each month, from Nay to September, 1868.
One hundred pounds of cheese made any time
during the year.
s.. MARKET GARDENS.
Entries may be made any time before LIST of
June, 1865
Best arranged and cultivated market gar
den 90
Second premium ....-...... le w
Each exhibitor must file with the correspond
ing secretary, prior to the January meeting, 1869,
statement, embracing information the fol-
lowing points
l. Location. county and township
.. Number of acres cultivated in 1868.
3. Character of soil and subsoil and their
pnDaration before planting; if drained, how.
e Leading varieties of vegetables grown, with
their yield per acre in bushels.
5. General management and rotation of crops.
G. Manures-their cost, how and where pro-
| cured, quantity per acre, how and when applied.
Z. Where the products were marketed, and
what the net revenue per acre, after deducting
cost of labor employed in producing and market
| ing.
| To be verified by affidavit of exhibitor
NURSERIES,.
Entries may be made any time before LIST OF
| June, 1868.
Best arranged, cultivated and managed
nursery of fruit and ornamental trees,
shruos and w
Second premium. Is 90
Each competitor must file with the correspond
ing secretary, before the January meeting, 1869,
| q statement, embracing full information the
following points
l. Location, (county and township.)
3. The number of acres devoted to nursery pur-
| poses each year, commencing with the establish
ment of the nursery.
8. Character of the soil and subsoi with the
usual preparations of same before planting.
T. Leading varieties of fruit trees grown, with
| details of mode of propagation most esteemed for
each.
5. Culture and treatment of leading sorts after
planting and readg for market: manures-
what, when and how used pruning and training
how and when done.
8. Where products have been usually market
ed.
7. A diagram showing internal arrangement of
| the nursery grounds, with reference to roads,
walks and blocks for the current year, 1868, each
| block to be so designated by number, with ex-
plantations accompanying.
g. If evergreens are cultivated, their mode of
propagate and after treatment
y. What branch of the nursery or what special
ty has in general yielded to the exhibitor the
largest revenue in proportion to the cost of prop
agatiOn and marketing.
TO- The committee on farms will examine the
nurseries and the premium will be awarded at
the January meeting, 1869.
ARTIFICIAL GROVES
To the individual who shall plant or trans
plant, during 1867 or 1858 or both, the
largest number of trees into an artificial
grove-the number to be counted and
certified to after the first Of October next
following by the clerk of the court of the
county in which the grove is situated,
and no trees to be included in said count
except those which shall be then alive
and uninjured $500 90
I'd premium ..........-.... ............... rs 90
Sd premium ..............-.-..-.... 80 90
4th premium ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. % 90
This shall not exclude from competition trees
bearing nuts in cases where the nuts were plant
ed during the fall of 1866. Statement must be
furnished in every case of the character of the
soil and subsoil, with means used to prepare
them for planting.
Exhibitors must also state the time when the
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