COMMITTEES AND PREMIUMS. 29 



SCHOOLS. 



High School : Best specimen of pencil, or water color drawing, $3 ; 

 second, $1.50. 



Grammar Schools : Best collection of pencil and water color draw- 

 ings, $3 ; second, $2. 



Intermediate, Graded or Ungraded Schools : Best collection of 

 pencil and water color drawings, $2 ; second, $1. 



Gratuities may be awarded to copies of merit at the discretion of 

 the committee. 



FANCY ARTICLES. 



See Rules 19-22. 



Committee. — Mrs. E. Stebbins, Fitchburg. 



For the best specimens of ladies' useful and fancy articles of their 

 own manufacture, including specimens of nice mending and darning, 

 there will be placed at the disposal of the committee the sum of fifty 

 dollars. 



COMMITTEES' REPORTS. 



Committee. — The President, Vice-Presidents and Secretary, 

 For the purpose of inducing the chairmen of the several committees 

 to take upon themselves more labor and care in elaborating their re- 

 ports, the following premiums will be paid : $10, $6, 84. 



Detailed reports in connection with awards (except on grain) must 

 be delivered to the Secretar3^ on or before November 1st. 



PROSPECTIVE EXPERIMENTS. 



FOREST TREES. 



Committee. — E. Wyman Stone, Templeton. 



For the best plantation of any kind of forest trees, suitable for fuel 

 or timber, raised from the seed, not less than five hundred in number, 

 which shall be in the most flourishing condition in the Fall of 1888, 

 $15 ; second, $10. 



Entries must be made on or before the first da}- of June. 



ENTOMOLOGY, STUFF'ED BIRDS, SINGING BIRDS, ETC. 



Committee.— E. A. Horton, Fitchburg. 



The sum of ten dollars will be placed at the disposal of the com- 

 mittee. 



