314 NORFOLK SOCIETY. 



This testimony shall be in the form of a certificate, which shall 

 bear the endorsement of one or more of the trustees of the so- 

 ciety, residing in the town where such applicant has lived. 



Each application for a premium shall also pass such an exam- 

 ination before a competent board of examiners, to be appointed 

 by the society for that purpose, as shall satisfy the board that 

 he is well qualified to superintend the management of a farm, 

 or to assist in the general operations of a farm. 



To those applicants who shall thus prove themselves most 

 competent to superintend the management of a farm, and 

 worthy of employment, the board of examiners shall award the 

 diploma of the society, together with the premium assigned. 

 To those applicants who shall thus prove themselves well qual- 

 ified to assist in the general operations of a farm, and worthy of 

 employment, the board of examiners shall award a recommen- 

 dation to that effect, together with the premium assigned. 



We propose the division of these premiums into two classes, 

 as follows : — 



The three higher — of $25, $20, and $15 — to be awarded 

 to the three most deserving applicants, who shall have arrived 

 at the age of twenty years, and not more than twenty-five years, 

 and who shall have served their employers not less than one 

 year previous to the date of their application for a premium. 



The three lower — of $12, $10, and $8 — to be awarded to 

 the three most deserving applicants, who shall have arrived at 

 the age of sixteen years, or not more than twenty years, and 

 who shall have been in the service of their employers not less 

 than six months previous to the date of their application for a 

 premium. 



Your committee cannot but regard the usually short period 

 of a laborer's continuance with his employer, and his frequent 

 change of the place and the mode of his employment as pro- 

 ductive of serious evils to both parties. In England, the labor- 

 er often remains with his employer, upon the same estate, ten, 

 twenty, and even thirty years, until the relation between the 

 parties has become one of mutual confidence and esteem, to be 

 voluntarily severed by neither, and resulting in the comfort and 

 happiness of both. We would warmly recommend the custom 



