STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 

 Fourth Department — Continued. 



93 



Exhibitor. 



P. 0. Address. 



Article Exhibited. 



Award. 



Standard Soap Company _ . 

 Standard Soap Company ._ 



Standard Soap Company ._ 



CLASS IX. 



II. F. Burdock & Bros 



Billincrslev & Co. 



W. F.>eterson 



Geo. W. Hancock & Co. 



Geo. W. Hancock & Co. 



Geo. W. Hancock & Co. .._ 



Geo. W. Hancock & Co. 



Geo. W. Hancock & Co. 



CLASS XI. 



Aitken & Fish 



Aitken & Fish 



Aitken Sc Fish 



CLASS XII.* 



I. L. Bias 



San Francisco. 

 SanFrancisco- 



San Francisco - 



Sacramento 

 Sacramento 

 Sacramento 

 Sacramento 

 Sacramento 

 Sacj'amento 

 Sacramento 

 Sacramento 



Sacramento _. 



Sacramento _. 

 Sacramento _. 



Petaluma 



Display of lubricating petroleum 

 Display of saleratus, potash, and 



alkalies 



Display of candles (California 



made) 



Disjilay of stoneware 



Demijohns 



Display of confectionery 



Display of queensware 



Samples of ground and cut glass 



Display of glassware 



Specimen of ground glass 



Specimen of stained glass 



Collection of polished marble 



work (six pieces) 



Marble mantel 



Carved marble mantel 



Petaluma Incubator in working 

 order, brood hatched during 

 Fair 



. Diploma 

 .--$5 00 



.§10 00 



...$10 00 

 .Diploma 

 ...$10 00 

 .-..$5 00 



$5 00 



...$10 00 



Diploma 



. Diploma 



$30 00 



-Silver medal 

 .Silver medal 



Gold medal 



*BuLES AND Conditions, with Oommittke's. Report. 



Rules and conditions issued by the Society : 



First — Exhibitors must furnish the eggs for incubation in tlieir respective machines. 



Second — The eggs in each macliine to be counted, and marked at the time tlie machine is set, by the Secre- 

 tary, who shall verify to the Committee of Award the eggs marked. 



Third — The percentage of hatching to be the basis of award. 



Fbtirth — The several hatches to be set so as to come out September 13th, or thereabouts. 



Fifth — All machines to be cared for by exhibitors, or their representatives, only at stated hours, morning and 

 evening, and at no other time will any person be permitted to have access to them under any circumstances. 



Sixth — The several machines may be set up at any time desired. In case the noise or confusion in new build- 

 ing is injurious, they may be set up in the old building. 



Detail of those Conditions. 



Sacramento, August 24, 1883. 



It is agreed that the Petaluma Incubator Company place the same number of eggs in their incubator that the 

 Golden Gate Incubator has when full. It is also agreed that the eggs are to be tested on the sixth day from 

 setting. Each competitor to test his eggs on that day — take out of his oven all clear and rotten eggs; also all 

 dead ones. If he happens to break an egg that has in it a live chicken, to be replaced by one from one of his 

 machines. After tlie eggs are tested, the one that has the excess of eggs to remove from his incubator enough 

 to make the number of eggs in each machine equal in number Any chicken that frees itself from the shell is 

 to be counted as a live one. Each competitor to be allowed to be ^vith his machine while liatchiug, that is, 

 when the chickens commence to come out of the sliell. 



Each one to be allowed to test his eggs at any time in the presence of his competitor. This agreement to be 

 subject to the approval of Edwin F. Smith, Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture; the testing done on 

 the si.xth day by one representative of each machine. 



[Signed:] I. L. PI AS. 



L. C. BYGK. 

 C. R. LOOK. 

 GEO. E. DAVIS. 

 2'he Result — Report of Committee. 



We, the undersigned. Committee on Incubators, have examined the same with reference to the percentage of 

 hatch, and report aa follows: Out of one hundred and eighty-seven eggs placed in each machine, the Petaluma 

 Incubator hatched one hundred and fifty-four chickens, or eighty-two per cent, and the Golden Gate Incubator 

 hatched one hundred and nine chicks, or fifty-eight per cent. 



A. LEONARD, Sacramento. 

 WARREN WASSON, Carson, Nevada 

 F. H. RUSSELL, Sacramento. 



