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comes to fill out the blanks. Two weeks or less 

 is plenty of time. 



Entry blanks should be made as simple as 

 possible if the show is given in a community 

 where the exhibitors are not accustomed to 

 them. They are intended merely to give the 

 committee an idea how much space to provide 

 for the classes; whether there are to be three or 

 fifty entries. To this end they should be re- 

 turned a few days in advance of the show. The 

 simplest entry blank merely contains the num- 

 bers attached to the classes, with a request that 

 the exhibitor draw a circle around each number in 

 which class they expect to exhibit. {SeeA, p.l68.) 



The more common form has space provided 

 for the name of the exhibit as well. {SeeB,p. 168.) 



The small entry fee may be asked to defray 

 expenses if necessary. I have never known an 

 exhibitor to begrudge a dollar for this purpose. 



Exhibit cards are a problem still to be solved in a 

 satisfactory way. The old method of placing them 

 in sealed envelopes until all judging is finished is 

 both expensive and cumbersome. The better way 

 is to have a plain paster laid over the exhibitor's 

 name on the card, and on which the exhibitor's 

 number has been written. This may be torn off 

 after judging is finished, exposing the name. 



White exhibit cards are an eyesore. Brown or 



