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Thirty dollars are also placed in the hands of the Committee to be dis- 

 tributed in awards according to their discretion. 



Regulations. — The fowls must be owned by the competitor and must be 

 enclosed in neat and tasty cages, and none confined in rough and clumsy 

 boxes will be admitted for exhibition. 



PLOWING — HORSE TEAMS. 



Committee. — Charles 0. Perkins. Becket ; Dwight Andrews. Sheffield ; 

 A. G. Freeman, Monterey. 

 For the best plowing, seven permiums, $8, T, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2. 



Regulations. — No entries for plowing can be made after 8 o'clock, a. m. 

 the third day of the Fair ; and no person can enter but one team for plow- 

 ing. The team must be the property of the competitor, and the name of 

 the plowman given at the time of entry and when awards are declared. 

 Each team will plow one eighth of au acre, the time allowed being forty 

 minutes. The plowing be flat and the furrows not less than six inches deep, 

 nor more than eleven inches wide. The lands for plowing will be staked 

 out, and when all the entries have been received, they will be numbered, 

 and drawn for by the competitors. Each plowman will mark out his own 

 land. 



PLOWING— OX TEAMS. 



Committee. — James II. Rowley, Egremont ; Henry A. Tobey, Great 

 Barrington ; Henry D. Palmer Stockbridge. 

 For the best plowing, five premiums, $8, 7, 6, 4, ?>. 



Reo-nlations same as for Horse Teams. 



ORCHARDS. 



Committee.— Henry A. Stedman, Monterev ; David F. Goodrich, Stock- 

 bridge ; Archibald Taft, Sheffield. 



For the best Apple Orchard of not less than 50 trees, set in fall of 1869 



or spring of 1870, to be awarded in 1872, three premiums, $10, S, 6. 



For the best Pear Orchard, of not less than 25 standard trees, set in fall 



of 1869, or spring of 1870, to be awarded in 1872, three premiums, 



$10, 8, 6. 



Competitors in Orchards must make entries before the first day of Sep 



tember next. 



The following premiums on Orchards have been offered, and are yet to 

 be awarded, but no further entries than those already received will be 

 allowed. 



Committee. 1868— 70.— John B. Hull, Stockbridge ; Ira Curtiss, Shef- 

 field : James Dewell. West Stockbridire. 



