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SPECIAL PRIZES. 
STEAM CULTIVATING MACHINERY. 
Special Gold and Silver Medals. 
1. The Judges are empowered to award Gold and Silver Medals to any 
Implements and Machines for the cultivation of the land by steam or other 
mechanical force, which, in the opinion of the Stewards and Judges, are new 
inventions, and have not been previously submitted to trial by the Society. 
2. The Stewards and Jud;^es are instructed that the Gold Medals shall be 
awarded only in cases of special merit, and for Implements and Machines 
likely, in their opinion, to be practically useful. 
SILVER MEDALS. 
For New Inventions. 
1. There are Ten Silver Medals, the award of which the Judges appointed 
by the Council have the power of recommending in cases of sufficient merit 
in New Implements exhibited at the Carlisle Show. 
2. These Medals cannot in any case be awarded to any implement, unless 
the principle of the implement, or of the improvement of it, be entirely new. 
No Medal shall be awarded by the Judges without the consent of the Stewards, 
and no Commendation of Miscellaneous Articles shall be made by the Judges. 
3. The Judges are also empowered to make special awards of Medals for 
efficient modes of guarding or shielding Machinery, especially when worked 
by steam, from contact with persons immediately engaged in attending to 
such machinery while at work. 
4. No Medal shall, in auy case, be awarded to any Implement or Miscella- 
neous Ai-ticle capable of Trial until it has been subjected to such Trial as the 
Stewards may direct. 
