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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



nients, and also with blank books in which to 

 register their awards, and have the Judges con- 

 ducted by the Assistant Marshals to their re- 

 spective departments of the exhibition. 



12. The Marshal and his aids shall give par- 

 ticular attention to tlie proper arrangement of 

 all articles exhibited in their respective depart- 

 ments ; point out the articles or animals to the 

 Judges, and otherwise facilitate the examina- 

 tion by the Judges. 



13. All productions of the soil placed in com- 

 petition for premiums, must have been culti- 

 vated and grown by the competitors, unless it 

 is claimed that it is a new product or a new and 

 valuable variety of one already cultivated. 



14. Hay and straw will be furnished, without 

 charge, for all animals entered for premiums, 

 and grain will be provided on the grounds, to 

 be supplied to e:sfhibitors at cost and expenses. 



15. No person will be allov/ed to interfere 

 with the Judges whilst examining and compar- 

 ing animals and articles submitted for their ad- 

 judication. Any competitor so doing, with in- 

 tent to influence the decision of the Judges, 

 shall be excluded from receiving a premium. 

 Competitors will, nevertheless, be at liberty to 

 communicate freely to the Judges any infor- 

 mation which they may think proper to ask for. 



STANDING RULES IN REGARD TO 

 PREMIUMS. 



1. As required by the Constitution of the 

 Virginia State Agricultural Society, the pre- 

 miums to be awarded " shall be, in all cases, 

 such as are likely to benefit agriculture, horti- 

 culture, or the auxiliary mining and mechanic 

 arts." 



2. The decisions of the J udges of awards, as 

 to the merits of subjects will be respected as 

 final in every exercise of their legitimate au- 

 thority. But any awards made contrary to the 

 requirements of the rules for directing and 

 restricting premiums, claimants, or awards, will 

 be disregarded or reversed by the Executive 

 Committee. 



3. No subject, (whether animal, implement, 

 writing, or other,) for which a premium or honor 

 is offered shall be deemed entitled to either, 

 though being the best, or the second best, of all 

 of the kind offered, unless such article is deemed 

 by the Judges of sufficient merit to deserve 

 such reward. 



4. Any animal, machine, or utensil, which 

 shall have had a premium awarded to it once, 

 as being the best of its kind exhibited, shall 

 not thereby be debarred from claiming and ob- 

 taining the like dictinction, so long as the 

 particular subject shall still be deemed the best 

 at subsequent exhibitions of the Society. But 

 in such cases, after two premiums, in different 

 years, may have been awarded to the same sub- 

 ject, any subsequent honor to the same shall be 

 a testimonial only of its continued superiority. 



No other subjects except the above named shall 

 obtain a premium more than once. 



5. The kind of admissible testimony in the 

 case of farming, crops, experiments, &c., can 

 not be described in advance. The committees 

 for examining claims for premiums on subjects 

 of this class, must judge of the value of the 

 testimony offered, as v.^ell as of the value of the 

 claim in other respects. As no other witness 

 is usually available in such cases, the claimant 

 must testify in his own case, unless he has ob- 

 tained and prefers to offer the testimony of 

 others also. 



6. No one subject shall receive two premiums, 

 by the awards of different committees of Judges, 

 at the same Fair — unless when one of the pre- 

 miums was offered expressly as additional. 



7. All written communications (unless re- 

 ports of experiments not then completed,) must 

 be sent in to the Secretary of the Executive 

 Committee at least two weeks before the annual 

 meeting and Fair of the Society. 



8. All articles offered for premiums, other 

 than communications in writing, if not on the 

 ground on the day preceding the day for the 

 first action of the J udges, may be passed over. 

 All reports of the awards of Judges, to be valid, 

 must be delivered to the Executive Committee, 

 for examination, by the afternoon preceding the 

 day for announcing the awards of premiums. 



9. When two subjects, of the same kind, pre- 

 sented for premiums, are deemed by the Judges 

 of equal merit, and also of such high degree 

 that to either, if alone, the premium would, be 

 awarded, in such case, the award must be to 

 divide the premium betWeen the two competitors. 



10. In all cases the parties entitled to pre- 

 miums may receive them, according to their 

 own election, either in money or its equivalent 

 in silver plate, bearing an inscription represent- 

 ing the particular subject for which the same 

 shall have been awarded. Provided that no 

 such inscribed plate shall be given, in lieu of 

 money, if the premium is of less value than ten 

 dollars. 



MACHINE FOR HUSKING CORN. 

 Oren Stodard, of Busti, N. Y., has obtained 

 a patent for a machine for husking corn. The 

 ears of corn are pushed down by an attendant 

 between a pair of rollers having raised stumps 

 of rubber upon them. The rollers rotate in a 

 direction contrary to that in which the ears are 

 pushed and serve to strip off the husk. The 

 but, or stalk part of the ear, is cut off by 

 means of a knife, which comes in play as soon 

 as the ear passes the rollers. The husks are 

 discharged at one place, and the clean ears at 

 another. 



Geology. — Geology supplies us the 

 medals of the past ; the world's history is 

 written on stones ; link by link we unite 

 the.chain which assures us of a Divine 

 architect. 



