l8 agriculture: of MAINE. 



specifications required in section nineteen; and also a certificate 

 from the commissioner of agriculture that he has examined into 

 the claim of said society ; that in his opinion it has complied with 

 the provisions of sections nineteen and twenty and with the fol- 

 lowing section; that there has been awarded and paid by said 

 society as premiums and gratuities a sum at least equal to the 

 amount apportioned to said society and that the provisions 

 in regard to gambling and the sale of intoxicating liquors have 

 been strictly complied with. 



Sec. 1 6. No state stipend shall be paid to any agricultural 

 society offering or paying premiums on grade males; the com- 

 missioner of agriculture may make this a part of the sworn 

 return to be made by the proper officers of all agricultural socie- 

 ties; provided that evidence as to eligibility to registration be 

 accepted as satisfactory proof of purity of blood. 



Sec. 17. The payment of the state stipend to the Eastern 

 Maine State Fair and Maine State Agricultural Society shall 

 be conditional upon the use of the score card system in the judg- 

 ing of all horses, breeds of cattle, sheep and swine, and of dairy 

 products ; the cards to be used for pure bloods to be those 

 adopted by the several breeders' associations. A copy of each 

 score card as filled by the judge shall be delivered to the exhibitor 

 of each individual animal judged. All county societies receiv- 

 ing a three hundred dollar stipend or more, shall be required to 

 faithfully observe the same system and conditions. 



Sec 18. Every society receiving the bounty of the state, 

 shall expend an equal amount each year in premiums and gratui- 

 ties for the improvement and encouragement of agriculture, 

 horticulture or the mechanic arts, unless the commissioner of 

 agriculture directs for what purposes a sum not exceeding half 

 of such bounty shall be expended ; and then it shall be expended 

 accordingly. 



Sec. 19. Every society applying for the bounty of the state 

 shall require of all competitors for premiums either on animals, 

 crops, dairy products or improvements of soils or manures, a 

 full and accurate statement of the process or method of rearing, 

 managing, producing and accomplishing the same, together with 

 its cost and value, with a view of showing the profits or bene- 

 fits derived or expected therefrom ; and the application for 

 bounty shall embrace all the specifications included in the follow- 



