988 TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



IthGrotcp. Army apparatus used in movements or in camp; guns, 

 pistols, swords ; plans for permanent fortifications. 

 All attachments, articles and devices for schools, 

 churches and public works not elsewhere designated. 



VII. — Depm-lment of Agriculture and Horticulture. 

 1st Grouj). Specimens of plants and flowers. 

 2d Group. Fruits, vegetables, cereals, roots and seeds. 

 3d Group. Specimens of food prepared on the farm — butter, 



cheese, etc. 

 4th Group. Ploughs, diggers, cultivators, harrows, drain pipes and 

 implements used in preparing the soil ; pruning 

 knives, and all implements for cultivating plants and 

 trees ; hot house apparatus. 

 hi\i Group. Mowers, reapers, scythes, and implements used in 

 gathering the products of the soil ; threshing ma- 

 chines, corn shellers and grain mills. 

 6th Group. Churns, cheese presses, and all articles used in dairy, 

 farm house, and farm stable, not elsewhere enume- 

 rated. 

 7th Group. Specimens of products of the soil used in the arts — 

 wool, hemp, flax, cotton ; specimens of animal 

 growth — wool, silk, hair, feathers, down, horn, bone ; 

 live animals, whenever the board of managers decide 

 to admit them. 

 § 7. It shall be the further duty of said managers, after the pub- 

 lication of such circular, to select and appoint competent persons 

 to act as judges in the several departments as to the comparative 

 merits of articles on exhibition, but not to decide upon the kind 

 of premium to be awarded ; to notify such persons of their 

 appointment, and in case of any one declining to act as a judge, to 

 supply the vacancy. Printed blanks shall be prepared by the 

 Institute for all exhibitions, to aid the judges in the performance 

 of their duties, so that they can brieflj^ express their opinion upon 

 thee following points : 



The ofeneral merit of the class under examination. 

 The l)est article exhibited, and whether the same is better than 

 any other used for the same purpose, known to them and not on 

 exhibition. 



The articles of the second and third order of merit. 



The reason upon which their conclusions in each case are based. 



