PREMIUMS. 65 



Best Experiment to determine the best and most profitable time and 

 condition in which to cut grass for hay, having regard to the total 

 annual product. Two premiums — $15, 10. 



Best Experiment testing the value of corn and cob for fattening pur- 

 poses, with the cob or otherwise. One premium — $15. 



Best Experiment in steaming food for cattle and horses. One prem- 

 ium— $10. 



Best Experiment testing the comparative value of drilling wheat or 

 other grain, to broadcast sowing. One premium — $5. 



There will be placed at the disposal of the committee, for the best 

 and most reliable agricultural experiments of any kind, made in 1873, 

 the sum of twenty dollars. 



EXHIBITION AT THE HALL. 



No article intended for the Hall will be entitled to a premium unless 

 it shall have been deposited by ten o'clock a. m., on Tuesday. 



All articles should be plainly marked with the name and residence 

 of the exhibitor, except samples of Bread and Butter, which must be 

 desgnated by numbers. A strict compliance with these regulations 

 will be absolutely necessary to entitle competitors to any premiums 

 that may be awarded to them. 



APPLES, PEACHES, PLUMS AND QUINCES. 



Committee. — Levi Heywood, Gardner; Jabez Fisher, Benj. Snow^ 

 Dr. George Jewett, Fitchburg ; Porter Piper, Leominster. 



APPLES. 



Twelve varieties of five specimens each. Two premiums — Harris on 



Insects, $2. 

 Six varieties of five specimens each. Two premiums. $2, 1.50. 

 Three varieties of five specimens each. Two premiums — $1.50, 1. 

 Best exhibition of twelve specimens of Baldwins. Two premiums — 



$1, .50. 

 Hubbardston Nonsuch. Two premiums — $1, .50. 

 B. I. Greenings. Two premiums — $1, .50. 

 Roxbury Russets. Two premiums — $1, .50. 

 Gravensteins. Two premiums — $1, .50. 

 Palmer Greenings. Two premiums — $1, .50. 



No person will be allowed to compete for a premium in more ^ than 

 one of the above classes, with the same specimens of fruit ; and if the 



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