The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-07-23
Rules and Regulations of the Cedar
County Agricultural Society.


Rules and Regulations of the Cedar
County Agricultural Society.
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.
III. G.. PIATT, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. President.
GEO. w. SMITH, Nice-President.
>. w. YOUNG, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Treasurer.
>. l.. SMITH, Secretary.
DIRECTORS.
WIN. w. ALpRlcH, Center Township.
JOHN G. LYLE,
w. A. RIGBY, ......... Red Oak
JAMES r. CULVER, Fremont
VIM. PIPER, ............ Pioneer
BALDWIN PARSONS, Linn
:. f.. GUNSoLUS, .Cass -
CHAs. MEADOWS, ......Gower
JOSIAH COLLINS,...... Iowa
THOMAS JAMES, Springdale Township.
CHAs. FOREMAN, Rochester
HARVEY LEIGH, Sugar Creek -
+. BUTTERFIELD, Pennington
J. WHARTON, Jr., Inland g
WIN. THOMAS, Springfield %
\. WILLIAMS, Massilon
JAMES GREGG, Dayton
RULES AND REGULATIONS.
|. All premiums will be paid in cash.
,. All awarded premiums unca!led for,
for six days after the close of the Fair,
shall be deemed donated to the Society,
8. Awarding Committees may recon-
menu discretionary premiums for arti-
cies of merit which may be exhibited.
4. The same animal or article shall
not receive two premiums, except in
the sweepstakes.
). Premiums shall not be awarded
when the animal or article is deemed
unworthy.
| =. All articles must be marked with
cards, which will be furnished by the
! Secretary, designating class and num-
Der; and these cards must not be re-
moved until after the Awarding Com
mittee have finished their examinations.
:. An entry fee Of ten per cent. on
the amount of premiums offered, will be
required in all classes.
s. The Executive Committee will
take every possible prccaution for the
safe keeping of all articles on exhibition,
after their arrival and arrangement, but
the Society will not be responsible for
any loss or damage that may occur.
They desire exhibitors to give personal
| attention to their animals or articles,
aud at the close of the Fair attend to
their removal.
.. Onc-fourth of I'M acre will be al!ot-
ted to each plowman at the trial, and
the Committee in awarding the prem
iums will be governed by the time
occupied, and the execution of the work.
10. Red cards will be attached to the
animals aud articles receiving the first
premiums. and blue cards to those OBJ
tanning the second.
II. All animals competing for prem
iums must be entered in the name Of the
bona fide owners. Should doubts arise,
| Awarding Committees may require
| atii JnyitS at her j-flptory ayiInnpa
of ownership.
L. All animals and articles must be
entered by o'clock of the first day of
! the Fair and be on the grounds by .
O'Clock of the second day OF the Fair; and
all competitors for premiums or exhibit
| tors are requested to enter their animals
Oh articles at as early a time as possible.
Is. At O'Clock Of the fourth day of the
Fair, a time will be set apart to sell at
/ public auction any animal or article
| that has been on exhibition or in COM
petition for premiums, and five per
cent. of all such sales shall be paid to
! the Treasurer of the Society.
II. No animal or article shall be taken
out of the fair grounds without the leave
of the President, who in such cases shall
! give Il check card, which will admit the
article when brought back.
-. All roots, Nc., offered for compe-
tition, shall be cleansed and trimmed,
and exhibited in baskets or other open
! vessels; grains and seeds may be ex-
! hibited in sacks.
! l6. The Secretary of the Society shall
in no case suffer the name of the owner
! to be affixed to any ANIMAL article or
/ improvement; but in lieu thereof shall
furnish Il card with the number of entry
! thereon, which shall be attached to
some conspicuous part of the animal,
article or improvement.
II. Farms, Fences, Orchards, Groves,
and all other articles or objects for COM
petition, which necessitates Il Committee
to travel into the country, shall make
their entries under the same rules and
regulations that other articles are re-
guired to be made. The Committee
shall he appointed by the Society dur
ing the Fair, and said Committee shall
make their report to the meeting of the
Directors on the second Monday of
January of the succeeding year.
is. Exhibitors are expected to obey
the Marshals promptly in producing
their stock, when instructed to do So
and any person proving refractory will
be ruled out from competing.
10. Exhibitors Of Thoroughbred ami
mails must file their pedigr9es with the
Secretary when the entries are made.
II they are not recorded in the Ameri-
can or Iowa Herd Book, the papers SO
filed shall be furnished to the Commit