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RULES AND GENERAL REMARKS. 



It is understood that all premiums will be restricted to articles 

 of the growth and manufacture of the County, unless otherwise 

 specified in the premium list. Essays and Agricultural Imple- 

 ments being excepted from this rule, are open to general compe- 

 tition. 



Committees are particularly requested not to award gratuities 

 other than dvjjlomas, or such as are specified in the premium list. 



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

 premium of five dollars or upwards, shall receive the amount 

 exceeding the sum of five dollars, and shall thereafter become a 

 member. 



The stock and articles intended for exhibition and premium, — 

 working oxen, bread and butter excepted, — must be on the ground 

 at or before 12 o'clock on Thursday, the first day of the Exhibi- 

 tion, 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, without the 

 permission of the Committee having them in charge. 



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 com- 

 pensation 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 came to the place of 

 exhibition, — and receive no premium. Only one travel will be 

 allowed to the same person. Payment Avill be made at the rate 

 of ten cents per mile, for a yoke of oxen or steers ; eight cents 

 per mile, for each bull, cow, heifer or yearling ; ten cents per 

 mile, for each boar, sow or litter of weaned pigs ; and eight cents 

 for each flock of sheep. But no such payment shall be made for 

 any animal, or animals, Avhich, in the judgment of the Committee 

 appointed to examine them, are not of a superior character and 



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