112 PREMIUMS. 



Best crayon drawing, 1st premium, $3 0(1 



2d premium, 2 00 



Pencil drawing, 1st premium, 2 00 



2d premium, 1 00 



Best specimen of penmanship, by a non-professional, 1 00 



Specimens exhibited must be actually executed by the 

 competitors. 



In addition there will be placed at the disposal of the 

 committee, the sum of twenty dollars. 



FANCY ARTICLES. 



Committee. — G-eorge A. Torrey, Mrs. Alvah Crocker, Mrs. 

 Edwin D. Works, Mrs. Abel F. Adams, Mrs. A. M. Sawyer, 

 Fitchburg. 



For the best specimens of Ladies' Useful and Fancy Arti- 

 cles, of their own manufacture, including specimens of nice 

 mending and darning, there will be placed at the 1 disposal of 

 the committee, the sum of thirty dollars. 



ESSAYS. 



Committee. — Nathaniel Wood, Jabez Fisher, Benj. Snow, 

 Jr., Fitchburg. 



All persons competing for these premiums must file their 

 Essays with the Secretary on or before the 1st of September. 

 Each Essay is to be marked with a motto or design, and 

 accompanied with a sealed envelope containing a correspond- 

 ing motto or design, and also the name of the author. 



The envelopes of the successful competitors will be opened 

 on the day of the exhibition, immediately upon the announce- 

 ment of the awards. 



For the best essays on some practical subject connected 

 with agriculture, deemed worthy of publication in 

 the Society's " Transactions," 1st premium, $15 00 



2d premium, 10 00 



