PREMIUMS. 



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EXPERIMENTS. 



Committee. — Joel Page, Joseph Gushing, Levi Kendall, Fitchburg. 



Best Experiment to determine the best and most profitable time and 

 condition in which to cut grass for hay, having regard to the total 

 annual product. Two premiums — $15, 10. 



Best Experiment testing the value of corn and cob for fattening pur- 

 poses, with the cob or otherwise. One premium — $1 5. 



Best Experiment in steaming food for cattle and horses. One pre- 

 mium— ^10. 



Best Experiment testing the comparative value of drilling wheat or 

 other grain, to broadcast sowing. One premium — $5. 



There will be placed at the disposal of the committee, for the best 

 and most reliable agricultural experiments of any kind, made in 1870, 

 the sum of twenty dollars. 



All entries must be made at least one week before commencing the 

 experiments. 



EXHIBITION AT THE HALL. 



No article intended for the Hall will be entitled to a premium, un- 

 less it shall have been deposited by ten o'clock A. M., on Tuesday. 



All articles should be plainly marked with the name and residence 

 of the exhibitor, except samples of Bread and Butter, which must be 

 designated by numbers.. A strict compliance with these regulations 

 will be absolutely necessary to entitle competitors to any premiums that 

 may be awarded to them. 



APPLES, PEACHES, PLUMS AND QUINCES. 



Committee. — Benjamin Snow, Fitchburg ; James Bennett, Leom* 

 inster; Simeon Merritt, Ashburnham; WilHam H. Jones, Lunen- 

 burg ; Leonatd Chandler, Princeton. 



APPLES. 



Twelve varieties of five specimens each. Three premiums — Harris on 



Insects, $2, 1. 

 Six varieties of five specimens each. Three premiums — $2, 1.50^ 1, 

 Three varieties of five specimens each. Three pr'ms — $1.50, 1. .50. 

 Best exhibition of twelve specimens of Baldwins. Two pr'ms — $1 , .50 

 Hubbardston Non-such. Two premiums — $1, .50. 



