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tillery, I went to look at a black colt, 

 which I understood was for sale, but I was 

 informed he had got the swinney. On 

 proceeding to the house of the owner, he 

 informed me, as his neighbour had previ- 

 ously done, that his horse was not in sale 

 able condition, in consequence of the said 

 affection. On entering the stable I found 

 the colt in a miserable state from the 

 treatment he was undergoing, having had 

 a hole bored into th? upper part of each 

 shoulder, with a hot iron, into which hole 

 had been inserted a piece of bacon ; in 

 addition to which the shoulder and arm 

 were covered with grease of some kind, 

 and altogether in such a filthy state that it 

 was impossible to touch him. As far, 

 however, as I could then judge of him, 

 the horse was lame in the feet." 



Virginia State Agricultural Society, 



LIST OF 



PREMIUMS AND REGULATIONS 



FOR THE 



FOURTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION, 



TO BE HELD AT 



RICHMOND, 



ON THE 



28th, 29th, 30th and 31st of October, '56. 

 PREMIUMS. 



BRANCH I. 



Premiums of First Grade of Experiments. 



1 to 5. For each of five best series of 

 experiments, each series to include not 

 less than eight different matters of trial, 

 observation, measurement or correct esti- 

 mate or comparison of results, and each 

 series to cover not less than four acres of 

 land — on any important and doubtful or 

 disputed question or questions of practi- 

 cal agriculture; and which experiments, 

 by their proper direction, variety, accura- 

 cy of performance, and the careful and 

 full reports of procedure and results 

 thereof, shall serve to furnish valuable in- 

 struction for practice on the several sub- 

 jects investigated ; for each series, whether 

 on the same or on differeut subjects, a pre- 

 mium of $100 



Second Grade. 



G to 15. For each of ten other next 

 best series or single experiments, of simi- 

 lar character and merit with the above de- 



scribed, but falling short of the full requi- 

 sitions for the foregoing, a premium of 25 



Third Grade. 



16 to 35. For each of twenty other accu- 

 rate and instructive experiments or series, 

 on one general subject, of merit and use- 

 ful value, a premium of 10 



Remarks and Special Rules for Branch I. 



The superiority of merit or value of any two 

 series of experiments, claiming the same or like 

 premiums, will be decided in reference to the 

 nearest approximation to the following condi- 

 tions : 



1st. The comparative extent-, and complete- 

 ness of the processes of experiment, and the 

 apparent accuracy of the precedure. 



2nd. The clearness of the report. 



3rd. The utility of the information so con- 

 veyed. m 



Exact measurements of results always will 

 add much value to reports of experiments, and 

 should not be omitted whenever the case may 

 require such exactness. But in many other 

 cases, estimates of comparative results, or pro- 

 ducts, by the eye, may serve, if sufficient for the 

 case and for reaching correct conclusions. 



JUDGES. 



Edmund Ruffin, Jr., Prince George ; 

 Dr. Jno. B. Harvie, Powhatan; 

 Dr. Cary C. Cock, Fluvanna ; 

 James B. Jones, Chesterfield ; 

 Jeremiah Morton, Culpeper. 



BRANCH II. 



First Grade of Premiums for Written Commu- 

 nications. 



36 to 40. For each of the five best es- 

 says or written communications, whether 

 on the same or on different subjects of 

 practical agriculture, or on scientific agri- 

 culture, strictly and usefully applicable 

 to practice, of "high order of merit and 

 utility for instructions — and conforming 

 to the requisitions of the general rules on 

 this subject, a premium of . $50 



Second Grade. 



41 to 50. For each of ten of other and 

 next best essays or written communica- 

 tions as above described, but which may 

 fall short of the requisitions for the higher 

 offers, a premium of . . ; $20 



Third Grade. 



51 to 70. For each of other twenty next 

 best instructive written communications of 

 new facts in agriculture, a premium of $10 



71. For the best treatise on gardening, 



