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its proper place. It is an imposition upon any committee of 

 awards to have so much of their time wasted in running about 

 from one place to another to find an article entered for pre- 

 mium, and after the search finding it, perhaps, buried between, 

 or under the shadow, of mammoth squashes and cabbages. 

 It is for the interest of exhibitors to have the premium cards 

 quickly attached to the best lots, that they and the public may 

 know it, and how can it be done so quickly and justly as where 

 all of a kind are side by side, and how can the exhibit be 

 more attractive than when the same kinds are arranged to" 

 gether with taste, and the " Collections" together. When this 

 is the rule and carried out, your Committees on Awards can 

 serve with satisfaction and do justice to all, doing their work 

 so promptly and speedily that they may enjoy the other 

 attractions of the Fair with others. In this connection, we 

 would recommend that cards be printed and hung in the 

 Exhibition Hall, stating number or quantity required of each 

 kind of exhibit to entitle it to compete for premiums, with the 

 amount of premiums offered ; for instance, in the Vegetable 

 Department, like this : — 



PREMIUMS. 



$8.00 for best collection of Vegetables. 



3.00 for best 12 Early Turnip Beets. 



3.00 for best 3 Hubbard Squashes, and so on, through the 

 list, ending with $30 in gratuities, or whatever the sum, will be 

 awarded by this committee. 



Have these cards hung so that they will be seen by the 

 exhibitor, the receiver of entries, the hall committee, the com- 

 mittee on awards, and last, but by no means least, the 2^ubUc. 



Then the excuse, that " they did not know it," will be use- 

 less. We think the cost would be amply repaid in the bene- 

 fits derived ; we know it would, in the Vegetable department, 

 and believe it would be in others ; for each committee, and the 



