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Best potato digger...

Diploma

Diploma
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For any machine that will dig potatoes by horse power, in a method satisfactory to the committee..

Best hay press, to be exhibited at work on the grounds..

Silver medal
Silver medal

NOTE.-By resolution of the executive committee, at its annual meeting, all premiums on mowers and reapers were ordered stricken out of the premium list; but all parties desiring to exhibit their machines are to have every facility offered them. It was deemed only just, that as no fair trial could be made at the season of the fair, no award should be made giving one machine a preference over another.

D-CLASS 27-APPARATUS AND MACHINES CONNECTED WITH THE CLEANING AND PREPARATION OF CROPS FOR MARKET AND FOR THE FEEDING OF STOCK.

Committee-James McNab, Cooper, Calhoun county; R. S. Van Scoy, Maple Rapids, Clinton county; A. S. King, Pontiac.

Best threshing machine combined with horse power and separator.....Diploma and medal
Best thresher and separator, fitted to work with any kind of horse power..
Best railroad two-horse power, fitted to be attached to any machinery..

Diploma

Diploma

Best horse power for general use...

Diploma

Best fanning mill or grain cleaner.

Diploma

Best hay, straw, and stalk cutter for horse power..

Medal

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Best machine for pulping roots, that they may be mixed with cut straw, hay or chaff.Diploma Best, simplest, and most substantial contrivance for steaming food for cattle and

hogs, not less than twenty head of each..

Best contrived feeding rack for sheep..

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Best portable steam engine, to be used for agricultural purposes.
Best steam engine made in Michigan, to be shown in operation.

Best portable grist mill.....

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Best portable corn and cob crusher, or mill for grinding or crushing grain or other food for stock..

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Best apparatus for evaporating sorghum syrup, shown in full operation on the ground. Medal Best cane crushing mill.

Best mill for separating sorghum sugar.

Best hop press..

Silver Medal

Medal ..Medal

It is the design of the executive board that all machinery in the above class shall be tested, and that each machine shall be put in motion by such power as it may be adapted for. The viewing committee are instructed to make the tests or trials as thorough as circumstances will permit, and to make such recommendations, in cases of articles not enumerated, as may seem proper.

D-CLASS 28-WAGONS AND CARRIAGES.

Committee-Henry C. Moore, Coldwater, Branch county; D. W. Montague, Clio, Genesee County; Goldsmith, Grand Rapids.

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Committee-Charles Pett, Muskegon; Harvey Haines, Coldwater; John Fargo, Green

ville, Montcalm county.

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Committee-J. Pierson, Cassopolis, Cass county; Amos F. Wood, Mason, Ingham county; Geo. A. Smith, Somerset, Hillsdale county.

Best churn for making butter, either rotary or other movement..

Best cheese press-

Diploma

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Best assortment of tin or metal ware for dairy or kitchen use.

Diploma

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D-CLASS 31-STOVES, IRON WORK, AND ORNAMENTAL CONCRETE WORK.

Committee-Charles D. Tood, Adrian; Wm. Corbin, Petersburg, Monroe county; L

Wellington Simmons, Farmington.

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Best apparatus for cooking-range

Medal

Medal

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Diploma

Best furnace or other apparatus for warming houses-economy of construction, consumption of fuel, security to premises, and facility of ventilation to be taken into consideration..

Silver medal

Exhibitors of stoves will be at liberty to show the capacity of the articles entered by actual trial on the ground, if they prefer to do so.

Best ornamental cast iron vase on pedestal..

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Best cast iron gate..

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Best ornamental fountain.

Best cast iron fence..

Best parlor grate..........

Best casting for fire front.

Best ornamental statuary.

Best iron chair...

Best fruit and flower stand.

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DIVISION E.-FIELD AND GARDEN PRODUCE.

E-CLASS 82-GRAIN, FLOUR, MEAL, AND SEEDS.

Committee--Jonathan J. Woodman, Paw Paw; C. S. Crane, Marshall, Calhoun county; J. G. Owen, East Saginaw.

Best bushel of winter red wheat, yield not less than 20 bushels to the acre..
Second best bushel of winter red wheat, yield not less than 20 bushels to the acre..
Best bu-hel of winter white wheat, yield not less than 20 bushels to the acre..
Second best bushel of winter white wheat, yield not less than 20 bushels to the acre
Best bushel of spring wheat.............

Second best bushel of spring wheat..

Best bushel of rye.....

Second best bushel of rye..

Best bushel of four-rowed barley..........

Second best bushel of four-rowed barley.

Best bushel of oats.....

Second best bushel of oats.

Best bushel of winter barley..

Second best busbel of winter barley..

Best bushel of corn, in the ear.

Second best bushel of corn, in the ear...

Best busbel of peas...
Second best bushel of peas.
Best bushel of white beans.

Second best bushel of white beans..
Best bushel of large clover seed..

Second best bushel of large clover seed.
Best bushel of small clover seed.

Second best bushel of small clover seed.
Best bushel of timothy seed....
Second best bushel of timothy seed.

Best bushel of buckwheat.....

Second best bushel of buckwheat..

Best bushel of flax seed..

Best bushel of red-top grass seed..

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Best bushel of seed of any valuable grass that has been tried as a crop of not less
than two acres within the State of Michigan, with a description of the manner of
treatment, and how the seed was originally procured by the exhibitor...
Best exhibition of a general assortment of seeds for field crops-greatest variety and
quality of seeds to be taken into consideration....

5.00

Best assortment and greatest variety of kitchen garden seeds.
Best barrel of flour, made from Michigan white wheat.
Best barrel of flour, made from Michigan red wheat.
Best display of a collection of the several kinds of grain in heads, arranged and
named...

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RULE.-All seeds shown in this class are required to be the growth of the present year.

E-CLASS 83-ROOTS AND VEGETABLES.

Committee--Wm. Adair, Detroit; P. C. Davis, Kalamazoo; Alonzo Mason, Hersey, Osceola county.

Best and greatest variety of vegetables for culinary purposes and feeding stock... $20 00 Second best and greatest variety of vegetables for culinary purposes and feeding stock Third best and greatest variety of vegetables for culinary purposes and feeding stock Best twelve blood beets...

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Best six Hubbard squashes...

Second best six Hubbard squashes.

Best six squashes of any other kind, for winter keeping.

Second best six squashes of any other kind, for winter keeping.

Best mammoth squash....

Best peck of tomatoes..

Second best peck of tomatoes.

Second best twelve roots of salsify.

Best twelve roots of salsify...

Best half bushel of white turnips..

Best half bushel of yellow turnips....

Second best half bushel of white turnips..

Second best half bushel of yellow turnips.

Best peck of Lima beans....

Second best peck of Lima beans..

Best peck of Windsor beans.....

Second best peck of Windsor beans.

Best bushel of sweet potatoes....

Second best bushel of sweet potatoes..

Best six stalks of rhubarb..

Second best six stalks of rhubarb.

Best six heads of lettuce...

Second best six heads of lettuce..

Best six heads of broccoli....

Second best six heads of broccoli....

Best collection of ten varieties of potatoes, named and labeled.

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