92 PREMIUMS. 



Best Ox Cart. One premium — $5. 



Best Horse Rake. One premium — $5. 



Best Team Harness. One premium — $5. 



Best Hay or Straw Cutter. One premium — i3. 



Best Ox Yoke complete. One premium — $3. 



Best Churn. One premium — $2. 



Best set of Horse Shoes. One premium — $2. 



In addition to the above, there will be allowed for gratuities, twen- 

 ty-five dollars. 



Specimens exhibited must be manufactured by the competitor. 



FINE ARTS. 



Committee- — L. W. Spring, Mrs. George Jewett, Miss Ruth Trask, 

 Fitchburg ; Miss Caroline Cushing, Lunenburg ; Miss Ann Eliza 

 White, Ashburnham. 



Best collection by a Photographic Artist. Two premiums — $4, 2. 



Oil Paintings. Two premiums — $4, 2. 



Best Crayon Drawing. Two premiums — $3, 2. 



Pencil Drawing. Two premiums — $2, 1. 



Best specimen of Penmanship, by a non-professional. One prem. — 1. 



In addition there will be placed at the disposal of the committee, the 

 sum of twenty dollars. 



Specimens exhibited must be actually executed by the competitors. 



FANCY ARTICLES. 



Committee. — Joseph Crehore, Mis3 Mary Adams, Mrs. George A. 

 Torrey, Mrs. T. C. Caldwell, Fitchburg; Miss Abby Boutwell, Groton. 



For the best specimens of Ladies' Useful and Fancy Articles, of their 

 own manufacture, including specimens of nice mending and darning, 

 there will be placed at the disposal of the committee, the sum of thirty 

 dollars. 



ESSAYS. 



Committee. — E. P. Loring, H. L. Jones, Fitchburg; Ohio Whit- 

 ney, Jr., Ashburnham. 



Best Essays on some practical subject connected with agriculture, 

 deemed worthy of publication in the Society's " Transactions." 

 Two premiums — $25, 15. 

 All persons competing for these premiums must file their Essays with 



the Secretary on or before the 1st of September. Each Essay is to be 



