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Diplomas awarded will be delivered and premiums paid, to the 

 person to whom the premium or eratuity is awarded, or an asfent 

 duly authorized, on application to the Treasurer, nt First National 

 Bank, Salem, on and alter the fourth Monday of November. 



All premiums and gratuities awarded, the iiaynient of which is 

 not demanded of the Treasurer on or before the tirst day of Sep- 

 tember next succeeding the Exhil)ition, will be cons-idered as given 

 to increase the funds of the Society. 



In all cases the reports of awards of premiums and gratuities 

 made by the several committees and adopted by the Society shall 

 be final. Committees should see that the premium curds issued, cor- 

 respond with the premiums and gratuities awarded in their reports. 



No person shall be entitled to receive a premium, unless he com- 

 plies with the conditions on which the premiums are offered, and 

 by profjer entry as required, .i;ives notice of his intention to com- 

 pete for the same; and committees are instructed to award no 

 premium unless the animal or article offered is worthy. 



No animal or object that is entered in one class, with one com- 

 mittee shall be entered in another class, except town teams, fat 

 cattle, working oxen, working steers, and farm horses, which may 

 be eutei'ed for ploughing, and milch cows, which may be entered 

 with a herd. 



In reojard to all subjects for which premiums are offered it is to 

 be distinctly understood that the Trustees reserve to themselves 

 the right of judgiag the quality of the animal or article ottered; 

 and that no premium will be awarded unless the objects of them 

 are of decidedly superior quality. 



Pure Bred Animals, delined by the State Board of Agriculture. 



Tlie p7-oof ihnt an animal is so bred should be a record of the an- 

 imal or its ancestors, as recorded in some herd book, recognized by 

 leading breeders and the public generally, as complete and authen- 

 tic. 



Standards adopted: — American Jersey C. C lle<rister and 

 American Jersey Herd Book, Ayrshire Record and Holstein Herd 

 Book. 



Premiums to be Awarded at the Show. 



The Committees loill take notice that no premium will he awarded 

 unless the animals or objects are of a decidedly superior quality. 



Diplomas may be awarded for animals OR articles oispecial 

 merit, in all departments of the Fair. 



Cattle and other Farm Stock. 



TO BE ENTERED IN THE NAME OF THEIR REAL OWNER. 



All animals to be eliirible to a premium, shall have been raised 

 by the owner within the County, or owned by the exhibitor within 

 the County, four months previous to the date of Exhibition, ex- 

 cept Working Oxen, and Working Steers. 



