Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-15
SIXTY SECOND ANNIVERSARY
 OF AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
Every Former Resident of the County
 Invited to Attend This Years Fair.

The county fair of the New London County Agricultural society is the 62d anniversary of the society, and this makes it a time when former resi- dents of the cities and towns of the county can best return to their old homes and visit the scenes of their earlier years, because they can then most easily see and mingle with their relatives and friends of the past, and their descendants. To make these pe- riodic returns is a good habit and every one who has changed his resi- dence from the community should get the habit.
 Let the fair week become your Old Home week and come to the fair and have an anniversary with your former associates. This year the society wants to see this practice enlarged. Every former resident of the county who returns to his or her home is in vited to attend the fair and celebrate their return on the fair grounds. Gull tiVate the idea of meeting the sons and daughters of the surrounding com munIty as we'll as seeing again at least once a year the faces of those who have become transient. Old settlers are especially welcome at the fair.
 This year there are a number of special prizes offered for special ex- hihits and contests and they are of great interest and attra ractiveness to the agriculturists of the county. Among these are the special corn growing prize of $50 offered to the boys of New London county who are enrolled in the State Corn club conducted by the Connecticut Agricultural college, U. S. department of agriculture and the New London county farm bureau; the special grange exhibit prize of S125 offered in contest to the granges mak- ing the largest and best collection of fruits and vegetables and various of ha fo ,,1 Iii
 Juvenile Judging of Dairy Cattle.
 A new and novel feature among the many contests arranged for the edu- cation and edification of the sight seers who attend the fair this year is the juvenile judging of dairy cattle, for which a prize of $25 is offered. This contest has been arranged by the society with a desire to interest the | boys of the county to take up the judging work and study it with an idea of participating inc the competi- tIon, consisting of placing of five classes of dairy animals. The prize money is divided, $10 to go to the win ners and the balance to be used in defraying the expenses of the winners to the national dairy show at Spring field, Mass, Oct. 13, 1916
 Any boy residing in the county de- siring to enter this contest may do so by applying to County Agent F. C.
 
 entrance fee and the only restriction is as to the age of the contestant. In order to insure the contest being strictly amateur, the age limit of the boys is placed at IS.
 Purses Larger Than Ever. The old county fair is as it has been for years, with the addition of new feature from time to time in the en- tertainment line. and this year the races are aSs[Iredly going to be att tractiVe to hOrSemen and sightseers alike, for the purses have been made larger, making them more attractive to the horse owners, and the size of the purses has insured a larger entry list and better horses. Some of the speediest steppers in the New England circuit have already been entered and the half mile track, reckoned by horse men as one of the best of the twice grounds" will see some aristrocrats in the finals of the races.
 Secretary William Beclwith says that the society hopes to be able to make this the most marked and mem Orable of any shew ever held by the society, or held in this section of the country. Tt will be our endeavor to have the grounds, halls and exhibits exceed iii extent, novelty and splendor those of any former years. We are ambitious to hold a fair that will have no superior in it's class, and we be- lieve thos year we will surpass all previous efforts, and the fair held in Norwich on Sept 4, 5 and 6 will set a high water mark in the fair line for 1 years to come"