NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



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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 excepted from this rule, will be open to general compe- 

 tition. 



Jl^^ Committees are prohibited from awarding gratuities, 

 other than diplomas, unless specified in the premium list. 



]|@=° No object or article will be entitled to a pretnium, unless 

 it possesses point of superiority ; and the Committees are prohib- 

 ited from aivarding 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 

 — bread and butter excepted — must be on the ground at or 

 before 12 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, without the per- 

 mission 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 will be made at the rate 

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



