KOKFOLK AGKICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



RULES AND REGULATIONS. 



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 

 exempted from this rule, will be opened to general competition. 



1^^ Committees are prohibited from aivarding gratuities, other 

 than diplomas, unless sp>ecijied in the premium list. 



^^ Ho object or article will be entitled to a premium, unless it 

 possesses points of superiority ; and the Committees are prohibited 

 from awarding premiums, if, in their opinion, the articles or ob- 

 jects are not deemed worthy. 



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

 mium of five dollars or upwards, and any lady, not a member 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 twelve 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 pre- 

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

 shall not be included in different collections of the same exhibitor, 

 competing for premium. 



In order to extend liberal encouragement to citizens of the 

 County living remote from the Society's grounds, 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 



