172 BOARD OF AGRICULTUKE. [Pub. Doc. 



REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON REVISION OF 

 PREMIUM LISTS. 



[Read and accepted at the Annual Meeting, Jan. 12, 1909.] 



The special committee on the revision of the premium lists 

 of the agricultural societies met at the office of the State 

 Board of Agriculture on JSTov. 5, 1908, at 11 o'clock a.m. 



Present : Messrs. Pratt, Bursley and Mason. 



Voted, To recommend that the State Board of Agriculture 

 prohibit the offering of premiums bj the agricultural so- 

 cieties for " any other variety " of poultry, the premiums in 

 the poultry classes to be confined to the varieties specifically 

 mentioned in the premium lists. 



Voted, To recommend that the State Board of Agriculture 

 prohibit the societies from paying premiums for specimens of 

 fruit unnamed or incorrectly named. 



Voted, To recommend that the State Board of Agriculture 

 prohibit the societies from paying premiums on animals or 

 fowls except v^here the same are actually the proj^erty of the 

 person exhibiting them. 



Voted, To recommend that the Board prohibit the societies 

 from including in their returns of premiums paid the sums 

 paid out in the horse trotting classes, except where the said 

 classes are confined to animals bred or owned within the 

 limits of the county where the society is located. 



Voted, To recommend that the State Board of Agi'iculture 

 require that officers of agricultural societies use all due care 

 in regard to the legal and moral status of the side shows, etc., 

 to which they rent the grounds of the societies during the 

 fairs, and that in case of anything finding lodgment on the 

 grounds which savors in the least of immorality or illegality 



