BRITISH COLUMBIA 

 FIELD-CROP AND SEED COMPETITIONS. 



I. FIELD-CROP COMPETITIONS. 



RULES-AND REGULATIONS. 



1. All Farmers' Institutes desiring to orptui/.e these competitions must notify 

 the Soil and Crop Instructor. Department of Agriculture. Victoria, B.C., on or 

 he/ore Mdij Ivt, stating the kind or kinds of crops for which competitions are to 

 be provided. 



l'. Competitions may 1 e organized and conducted with any one, or any t^vo 

 (but not more than two), of the crops and areas mentioned in sections I. and II. 



'.'>. The fields or plots entered for competition must he cli'iirli/ ilcfinnl a ml 

 markcrf iritJi x/Av\ </r ntlicnri.ir lit/ tin- competitor in ailronce of the -visit of 

 t/ir jiul<i<', which shall he made at the discretion of the Soil and Crop Instructor. 

 Competitors will not he allowed to choose locations at the time of the judge's visit, 

 and iu cases where the field has not heen marked in advance the judges will be 

 instructed to include all the crop of the kind entered in the competition that is in 

 the field where the plot is said to he located. 



Competitors must record location of plot with the Secretary at time entry is 

 made. Forms will lie sent to the Secretary for this purpose. 



Directions for the judge as to location of the plot on the farm must he left at 

 the residence on the farm. In case of absence or non-residence, word must be 

 left with the Secretary. Judges will not search for the owner. 



4. There must not lie less than five bomi-fiilc entries for each kind of crop from 

 any one institute, and no competitor may compete for prizes offered by more than 

 one Farmers' Institute. (Only one entry in each competition will be allowed from 

 one farm.) 



5. There shall he at least $45 offered in cash prizes for each kind of crop, as 

 follows: First. $:.><) : second. $15: third. $10. Of this amount, the Farmers' Institute 

 conducting the competition will he entitled to a grant of $35 when the competition 

 is arranged for one kind of crop only, or to a grant of $70 when competitions with 

 two kinds of crops are organized, which grants will be paid to the institute by the 

 Provincial Department of Agriculture. 



(. An entry fee of not less than 50 cents and not more than $1, the exact 

 amount to be at the discretion of the institute, shall be paid by each competitor 

 for each kind of crop into the funds of the institute, which money shall be applied 

 to the amount to be contributed by the institute to the prize-money for each crop 

 in competition. A competitor may not enter more than one exhibit of any one kind 

 of crop, but he may enter one exhibit of each kind when two crops are provided. 

 All of the fields entered for competition must be within the area defined by the 

 institute holding the competition. 



7. All individual entries for each competition must be forwarded by the 

 Secretary of the institute to the Soil and Crop Instructor, Victoria, B.C., not later 

 than June 1st. 



