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No. 1 0. All competitors for premiums on farms and gardens must 

 notify the Recording Secretary, at Pontiac, by the fifteenth day of July 

 next, of their intention to compete for premiums. 



No. 11. Premiums on field crops, farms and gardens will be paid at 

 the annual meeting, and the exhibitor must give a written statement 

 of the manner of raising and preparing the ground, and a general state- 

 ment of the process of raising the field crops. 



No. 12. Where field crops are raised, the land must be measured and 

 verified by affidavit of the o^vner and one or more persons as to the 

 harvesting, cleaning, and measuring of the entire crop on the piece en- 

 tered for premiums. It must be measured in a true half-bushel and a 

 sample produced; and the corn must be shelled between the 15th of 

 December and the 1st of January. 



No. 1 3. No animals having heretofore taken the first premium at a 

 county fair shall hereafter draw a premium, except in a higher class, 

 but Diplomas may be awarded to such animals in the discretion of the 

 examining committee. 



No. 14. Manufactured articles to compete for premiums must be 

 manufactured in the county ; but no premiums will be allowed or paid 

 on articles that have received a premium at any county fair. 



No. 15. All animals and fowls having been owned and kept in the 

 county four months previous to holding the fair shall have the privilege 

 of competing for premiums. And in case any member of the Society 

 shall present for premiums any animal not owned by exhibitor, or any 

 manufactured article which has not been made in the county and not 

 owned by the exhibitor, he shall not be entitled to a premium, although 

 awarded to him, and shall be excluded from membership in this 

 Society. 



No. 16. When there is but one exhibitor, and the animal or article 

 is not worthy, no premium will be awarded, and in no case will pre- 

 miums be awarded for an inferior article or animal. If any member 

 of a committee shall compete for a premium on any article to be judged 

 of by his committee, he shall notify the executive committee of that 

 fact on the day of the fair, and his notification of that fact shall dis- 

 qualify him from acting on said committee, and his place shall be 

 supplied by the executive committee. 



No. 17, The annual address will be delivered on the fair ground at 



