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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



APRIl. 14, 1841. 



CATTLE SHOW, 



Exhibition, of Manufactures, Ploughing Match, and 

 Public Sale of .Ininuils and Manufactures, at 

 Pawtuxet, R. I., on If'ednesday, October Gth, 1841. 

 The Standing Committee of the Rhode Island 

 Society fi)r the Encouragement of Doinestic Indus- 

 try, offer the following prrniiums: 



For Grain, Vegetable Crops and Agricultural Ex- 

 periments. 

 For a satisfactory, and the most satisfactory, 

 statement in writmf; of the expense of raising any 

 kind of grain crop, showing the least cost per bush- 

 el : the soil and subsoil on which the crop is rais- 

 ed must be named, and the cost stated as follows : 

 Reut of land for one year ; 

 Quantify and kind of manure — loads at ; 

 Ploughing, harrowing and rolling — days at ; 

 Planting or sowing — days at; 

 Tillage — days at ; 

 Harvesting — days at; 



First premium, $12 



Second, 8 



Third, 6 



For a satisfactory, and the most satisfactory, 



statement showing the value of apples, or any kind 



of root, compared with Indian corn per bushel, as 



food for cattle, hordes, sheep, or swine, $10 



Next best, 6 



Next best, 4 



To the person who shall raise or introduce 

 into the State, potatoes of a quality superior 

 to any heretofore raised or introduced. 



For the cultivation of root crops at the least 

 expense per bushel, the cost to be estimated 

 on the same plan as for grain, 



For the most satisfactory statement of the 

 comparative cost ot keeping stock on roots 

 and hay, or on dry fodder alone. 



For the most approved statement of the 

 comparative profit of fattening sheep or swine 

 upon the produce of a farm, the lean sheep to 

 be valued after shearing. 



For the best specimen of beet sugar, sta- 

 ting the process of making and the cost per lb. 

 For reclaiming bogs, requiring a statement 

 of the process and expense, with the increas- 

 ed value of the land. 



For under draining land with covered stone 

 drains, so that the plough may pass over them 

 without injury, stating the cost per rod after 

 the stones are delivered. 



For spreading clay or marsh mud on light 

 soil at the rate of 1(10 loads to the acre, sta- 

 ting the distance carted, the cost of the same, 

 and the effect produced on succeeding crops, 

 For the best statement on turning in green 

 crops and manure, on i tract of land not less 

 than one acre, 



For plantations and nurseries of white ash 

 trees raised from the seed, 



For plantations of yellow or honey locust 

 trees, set either in cleared land or on land from 

 which the native growth of timber has recent- 

 ly been taken, the number set on each acre, 

 at equal distance, not to bo less than 80, and 

 no premium to be allowed if set near cultiva- 

 ted land. 



To the person who shall introduce any 



$20 



10 



grass, not before cultivated in this State, and 

 prove by actual experiment, tested by satisfac- 

 tory evidence, its superiority to any other 

 grass now cultivated, 



To the person who shall, by actual experi- 

 ment, prove the best season and mode of lay- 

 ing down land to grass, whether spring, sum- 

 mer, or fall sei'ding be preferable, and wheth- 

 er with or without grain on different soils. 



To the person who shall take up in the sea- 

 son, on his own farm, the greatest quantity of 

 good honey, and shall at the sauie time exhi- 

 bit superior skill in the management of bees, 



For Stock. 



For the best bull, not less than one year 

 old, to be kept in the State one year after the 

 fair, 



For the next best. 

 For the next best. 



For the best bull calf from four to twelve 

 monies old. 



For the next best. 

 For the next best. 



For the best milch cow not less than four 

 yeiirs old. 



For the next best, 

 For the next best. 

 For the best one year old heifer, 

 For the next best. 

 For the ne.\t best. 

 For the best two year old heifer, 

 For the next best. 

 For the next best. 

 For the best three years old heifer, with or 

 without a calf. 



For the next best. 

 For the next best. 



For the next beat heifer calf, from four to 

 twelve months old. 

 For the next best. 

 For the next best, 



For the best pair of working oxen, not less 

 than four years old, regard being had to the 

 strength, equality of match, and docility of the 

 cattle, as well as to their size and appearance, 

 For the next best. 

 For the next best. 

 For the next best, 



For the best pair of three years old steers, 

 broken to the yoke. 

 For the next best do. 

 For the next best do. 

 For the best pair of two years old steers. 

 For the next best. 

 For the next best, 

 For the best pair of yearling steers, 

 For the next best. 



For the best boar, not less than five months 

 old, nor more than two years and six months 

 old, with an assurance that he shall be kept 

 six months for further service, 

 For the next best. 

 For the next best, 



For the best breeding sow, not less than one 

 year old, which shall have had at least one 

 litter of pigs, and nmst be kept for breeding 

 another year. 



For the next best. 

 For the next best. 



For the best weaned pigs, not less than 

 four in number. 

 For the next best. 



$10 



12 



10 

 8 

 5 



6 

 4 

 2 

 5 

 4 

 2 

 3 

 2 



10 

 6 



4 



For the best weaned pigs, iiot less than 



four in number, 5 



For the next best, 3 



The premiums for tlie bulls and boars will be 



paid when evidence is produced that they have 



been kept in the State the time required. ' 



For each yoke of oxen exhibited at the fair, 

 (which shall appear in a team of fifty or more 

 yoke, and to which no premium for any pecu- 

 liar excellence is awarded,) if driven less than 

 five miles, 25 cts. 



For each yoke, five and over, 50 do. 



For each yoke, ten and over, 7ii do. 



For each yoke, twenty and over, $1 



The unsatisfactory mode of determining the re- 

 lative excellencies of milch cows, by mere inspec- 

 tion of them in the pens, or from recollection of 

 verbal representations made to the committee at 

 the moment of examination, has determined the 

 Standing Committee, in offering the above liberal 

 premiums, to require of the claimants, at the time 

 ofientry, to file their certificate in writing, of the 

 product of milk and butter made from the cow, 

 Irom the 17th to the 27th of June, and from the 

 10th to the ^Oth of September — ascertained insuch 

 a manner as may be entirely satisfactory ; also, 

 stating the time of the cow's calving, the quality 

 of the calf, and ifjthe cow has had any other keep- 

 ing than by pasture, of what kind, and in what 

 quantity it has been. And no person shall be con- 

 sidered by the committee of judges, a competitor 

 for either of the above premiums for cows, who has 

 not strictly complied with this rule. It is desira- 

 ble, also, although it is not made requisite to obtain 

 a premium, that if the cow is from a dairy stock, 

 the certificate should contain a statement of the 

 number and breed of the cows kept together, and 

 of the produce in veal, butter and cheese, and of 

 the number of swine kept as connected with tho 

 dairy, through the season, to the time of the Show. 

 None of tho animals will be entitled to premium 

 unless they are wholly the product of the State, 

 excepting that with a view to encourage the intro- 

 duction of improved stock, the Standing Committee 

 will pay the premiums which may be awarded for 

 bulls, rams and boars, brought into the State, upon 

 receiving security that they shall be kept for use 

 within the State at least one year next after. 



In awarding the premiums upon stock, regard 

 will be had to the manner and expense of raising 

 and keeping. And the owner will be required to 

 give a satisfactory account thereof to the appropri- 

 ate comnattee, on the day of exhibition, as it is 

 the intention of the Standing Committee to encour- 

 age that stock which not only may appear best at 

 the Show, but which, in reference to the cost, is 

 most profitable to the farmer. 



The Standing Committee, with a view to the 

 most liberal encouragement of the citizens of the 

 State, who live remote from the place of exhibition, 

 propose to pay at the rate of eight cents per mile 

 for travel, to the owners of such animals as obtain 

 premiums and which are brought or driven more 

 than five miles, computing from the plnce from 

 which the animals come to the place of the Show. 

 Also, to unsuccessful competitors and owners of 

 cattle, offered for exhibition, the like sum, when 

 from the report it shall appear, that the animals 

 exhibited were of such excellence as to claim the 

 special notice of the committee ; and that in their 

 opinion, the owners merit such an indemnity for au 

 expense which has given credit to the Show. 



