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Diplomas awarded will be delivered and premiums paid, to the 

 person to wliora tlie premium or gratuity is awarded, or an agent 

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

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



All premiums and gratuities awarded, the payment of which is 

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

 tember next succeeding the Exhibition, will be considered 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 cards 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, aiid 

 by proper entry as required, gives 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, 

 working oxen, working steers, (three year old steers may be- 

 eutered for ploughing in a double team) and farm horses which 

 may be entered for ploughing, and milch cows, which may be 

 entered with a herd. 



In regard to all subjects for which premiums are offered, it is to 

 be distinctly understood that the Trustees reserve to themselves 

 the right of judging the quality of the animal or article oft'ered ; 

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

 are of decidedly superior quality. 



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



Thepnoof that 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. Register and 

 American Jersey Herd Book, Ayrshire Record and Holstein Herd 

 Book. 



Premiums to be Awarded at the Show. 



The Committees will 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 of special 

 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 eligible 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, except 

 Working Oxen and Workinct Steers. 



