NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



RULES AND REGULATIONS. 



It is understood that all premiums will be restricted to articles 

 grown or manufactured in the County, or in towns contiguous 

 thereto, unless otherwise specified in the premium list. Essays 

 and Agricultural Implements, being exempted from this rule, will 

 be opened to general competition. 



^^ Committees are prohibited from awarding gratuities, other 

 than diplomas, unless specified in the premium list. 



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

 possesses j)oints of superiority ; and the Committees are prohibited 

 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 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 three o'clock on 

 Friday, the second day ; and all other articles not until five 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 sliall 

 not be included in different collections of the same exhibitor, com- 

 peting for premium. 



In order to extend liberal encouragement to citizens of the 

 County living remote from the Society's grounds, a sum — not ex- 

 ceeding fifty dollars — will be appropriated for compensation of 

 travel to the owners of all such neat cattle, swine, and sheep, as 

 have been brought or driven more than five miles — reckoning the 

 distance from whence they come to the place of exhibition — and 



