NORFOLK AGlilCULTURAL SOCIETY. 



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It is understood that all premiums will be restricted to articles 

 grown or manufactured in the County, unless otherwise specified 

 in the premium list. Essays and Agricultural Implements 

 being excepted from this rule, will be open to general compe- 

 tition. 



]^^ Committees are prohibited from awarding- gratuities^ 

 other than diplomas, unless specified in the premium list. 



M^^ No object or article will be entitled to a premium, unless 

 it possesses points of superiority ; and the Committees are pro- 

 hibited from awarding premiums, if, in their opinion, the articles 

 or objects are not deemed worthy. 



Any gentleman, not a member of the Society, entitled to a 

 premium of five dollars or upwards, and any lady, not a mem- 

 ber of the Society, entitled to a premium of two dollars or 

 upwards, shall receive the amount exceeding the sum of five 

 dollars or two dollars, respectively, and may thereafter become 

 a member. 



All animals and articles intended for exhibition and premium 



— herds of milch cows and bread and butter excepted — must 

 be on the ground at or before 12 o'clock on Thursday, the first 

 day of the Exhibition, to be entitled to any premium. Animals 

 will not be allowed to be removed from the pens before 3 o'clock 

 on Friday, the second day, and all other articles not until 5 

 o'clock. 



The same animal (except working oxen and draught horses,) 

 or article, shall not be allowed to compete for more than one 

 premium. And in fruit, it is understood that the same varieties 

 shall not be included in different collections of the same exhibi- 

 tor, competing for premium. 



In order to extend liberal encouragement to citizens of the 

 County living remote from the Society's grounds in Dedham, a 

 sum — not exceeding fifty dollars — will be appropriated for 

 compensation of travel to the owners of all such neat cattle, swine 

 and sheep, as have been brouglit or driven more than five miles 



— reckoning the distance from whence they came to the place 

 of exhibition — ■ and receive no premium. Only one travel will 

 be allowed to the same person. Payment will be made at the 



