SPECIAL PREMIUMS. 75 



SPECIAL PREMIUMS. 



To the boys in the following towns, viz.: Fitchburg, Leom- 

 inster, Lunenburg, Townsend, Shirley, Lancaster, Harvard, 

 Clinton, Bolton, Sterling, Princeton, Hubbardston, Westmin- 

 ster, Ashburnham, Ashby, Gardner, Templeton, Phillipston, 

 Petersham, Athol, Royalston, Winchendon, Rindge, New 

 Ipswich and Greenville, 



L. J. Brown, of Fitchburg, Mass., 



Offers One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) in premiums, provided 

 there are twenty (20) entries, as follows: 



ist, $30.00; 2nd, $20.00; 3rd, $15.00; 4th, $10.00; and 

 five of $5.00 each, to boys who shall raise the most Indian 

 Corn on one-eighth of an acre of land, in the year 1881. The 

 prizes will be subject to the following conditions : 



I St. Every contestant must have resided in said town three 

 months and be under eighteen years of age June ist, i88r. 



2nd. All entries must be made and communicated to me 

 on or before May ist, 188 1. 



3rd. The land shall be measured during the summer of 

 1 88 1, by some person appointed for that purpose. The 

 corn may grow to the edge line of the lot, but in no case be- 

 yond it. 



4th. The land may be of any shape, but not less than tv/o 

 rods wide. 



5th. The contestant must do all the work in raising the 

 corn, except that he may have some one to drive the oxen or 

 horses in plowing or cultivating. 



