XOKFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETT 



RULES AND REGULATIONS. 



It is understood that all premiums will be restricted to articles 

 grown or manufactm-ed in the Count}', or in towns contiguous 

 thereto, unless otherwise specified in the premium list. Essays 

 and Agricultural Implements, being exempted from this rule, will 

 be opened to general competition. 



^^ Committees are x^i'ohibited from aicarding gratuities, other 

 than dixilomas, unless specified in the jjremium list. 



^^No object or article will be entitled to a premium, unless it 

 2)0ssesses points of siqjeriority ; and the Committees are prohibited 

 Jrom awarding 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 upward, and any lad}-, not a member 

 of the Society, entitled to a premium of two dollars or upward, 

 shall receive the amount exceeding the sum of five dollars or two 

 dollars, respectiveh", and may thereafter become a member. 



All animals and articles intended for exhibition and premium — 

 herds of milch cows and bread and butter excepted — must be on 

 the ground at or before twelve o'clock on Thursday, the first da}' of 

 the Exhibition, to be entitled to any premium. Animals will 

 not be allowed to be removed from the pens before three o'clock on 

 Frida}', the second day ; and all other articles not until five o'clock. 



The same animal — except working oxen and draught horses — 

 or article shall not be allowed to compete for more than one pre- 

 mium. And in fruit, it is understood that the same varieties shall 

 not be included in diflTerent collections of the same exhibitor, com- 

 peting for premium. 



In order to extend liberal encouragement to citizens of the 

 County living remote from the Society's grounds, a sum — not ex- 

 ceeding fift}" dollars — will be appropriated for compensation 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 

 ilistance from whence they come to the place of exhibition — and 



