The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-08-03
VERMONT DA1RYMEN's
ASSOCIATION, SECY's OFFICE,
GropaIA June % 1879

ASSOCIATION, SECY'S OFFICE,
GEORGIA, June 20, 1876.
At the last winter meeting of the as
ISOLATION, several of Its active friends
made valuable donations to 1t to be
used as prizes, to induce large and
more varied display Of the dairy pro-
ducts of the state, at the meeting to be
held January ~, 20 and 81, 1875. 1.-THE
place of next meeting cannot be fixed
until the annual business meeting in
October.l So many and so various
were the articles contributed that no
schedule of the prizes was arranged,
but the whole matter was left In the
hands of the executive officers of the
association, and we have accordingly
arranged the following schedule OF
prizes:
BUTTER,
For best tub (58 lbs.) June butter, 3
bbls Onondaga factory filled dairy salt,
donated by the American Dairy Salt
Company, of Syracuse, N. Y. For I'd
best 2 bbls. For best tub fall butter 2
bbls. For I'd best Dbl. For best tub
winter butter bbls. For I'd best l Dbl.
For best lot prints bbs. For I'd best
Dbl. For most merltorious display of
butter, statement, etc., to be consider
ed, Billiards. oscillating churn donated
by John r. Ellsworth, Esq, of Barre,
Mass. Prize articles in other classes
are not debarred from competing in
this.
CHEESE.
For best July cheese Us lbs. bbls.
salt. For I'd best Dbl. For best Sep
TENDER cheese, Q bbls. For I'd best
Dbl.
SWEEPSTAKES.
For most meritorious display of
cheese, Cornish and Curtis rectangular
churn, donated by D. w. Curtis, Esq,
secretary of the Wisconsin Darymen's
Association.
RULES.
Each competitor must become a
member of the association, and must
furnish to the secretary with his entry
an instructive statement of all the ma
terial facts in regard to the production
of the article entered for prize, the OBJ
jects sought being information i'm re.
gard to the manner in which the arti-
Gle is produced, rather than mele
show of products to excite the curiosity.
The committee VIII he instructed TO
take the statements fully into the ac-
count in making up their awards, and
in no case to award prizes unless both
the article exhibited and the accompa-
nying statement are meritorious. In
case of no competition the committee
will award first, "A second, or no prize.
as in their judgment shall best serve
the ends sought by the donors.
EssAYs.-THE sPRAGUE PRIZES
One of the Brandon Manufacturing
Co.'S double beam double platform
scales, donated by Col. N. r. Sprague,
-Ir- viii be awarded to the lady fur
nishing the best essay OH the manage
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specimens of her handicraft; and the
other to the lady furnishing like es-
say on the management of the cheese
dairy, with specimens. Essays should
be forwarded to the secretary at least
ten days before the meeting. No fee
for membership is exacted of essayists,
and they are always placed on the list
of corresponding members for the cur
rent year and receive all the benefits
and privileges of other members. Their
essays, however, become the property
of the association.
The exhibition Of any other articles
calculated to afford instruction is invit-
ed, and twenty bags of Onondaga fac
tory filled dairy salt and several other
articles will be placed at the disposal
of the committee, to be awarded in their
discretion for such articles as may be
deserving,
o. s. BLISS, Secretary.