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Best bee-hives, and method of securing honey and taking care of bees. Diploma and
Best display of samples of commercial sugars and syrups named and labeled....
Second best display of samples of commercial sugars and syrups, named and labeled

E-CLASS 30.-BREAD AND PICKLES.

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3.00

Committee-Mrs. E. H. Thompson, Flint; Mrs. Thos. Chisholm, Marshall, Mich.; Mrs.

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Best three loaves of brown bread, or rye and Indian...

Second best three loaves of brown bread, or rye and Indian..

Best samples of flour bread, made by a girl of sixteen years or under..

Second best sample of flour bread, made by a girl of sixteen years or under..........
Best sample of brown bread, by a girl sixteen years or under....

Diploma

.Diploma

$4.00

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3.00

2.00

3.00

2.00

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3.00

2.00

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2.00

Second best sample of brown bread made by a girl of sixteen years or under...
Best display of varieties of crackers, made by any person....
Best display of specimens of pickled vegetables, including cucumbers, onions, cab-
bage, tomatoes, and beans

Second best display of specimens of pickled vegetables, including cucumbers, on-
ions, cabbage, tomatoes, and beans.

3 00 2.00

Diploma

$5.00

3 00

The Executive Committee esteem it of the utmost importance to encourage the arts which promote comfort and economy to the household. There will probably be many articles entered under this class which are not enumerated. Such articles as may be deemed meritorious the committee are instructed to act upon, and to make such awards as may seem just.

E-CLASS 31.-SOAPS, TOILET ARTICLES, SAMPLES OF PREPARED GROCERIES, ETC.

Committee-G. F. Lewis, Saginaw City; Chas. R. Bates, Kalamazoo ; Mat. Colvin, Battle Creek City.

Best display of fine groceries...

-Diploma

Best display of toilet articles, including hair dyes, tooth powders and washes, hair

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All articles pertaining to division E, not heretofore enumerated, shall be placed in this class. Committee to be appointed on the ground.

DIVISION F.-FARM IMPLEMENTS AND THEIR TRIALS. Superintendents-E. O. Hanford, Plymouth, Wayne Co.; Abel Angel, Bradley, Alle

gan Co.

1. A trial of all implements and machinery in this division will be required under the direction of the Superintendents.

2. Each exhibitor of plows, cultivators, harrows, or other implements or machine requiring to be tested in the field, is required to have entry made at the office of the Secretary, during the week previous to the 16th of September.

3. The plowing match and trial of plows, and the testing of implements and machinery in the field, will commence on Wednesday, the 16th of September, and will be conducted on such grounds as may be selected by the business committee. The judges will note that their presence is required on the fair ground on the 16th, and exhibitors who have not their machines present will not be able to compete, though they may exhibit.

A full and complete programme of the order of exhibition and trials will be published through the press previous to the opening of the fair.

F-CLASS 83.-PLOWS AND THEIR TRIALS.

Committee-George Du Boies, Lawton, Van Buren; Wm. Lears, Cassopolis; F. A.

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Best heavy plow for new land..

Diploma and

5 00

Best attachment for any plow for covering grass or long manure....

5 00

Best subsoil plow.

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Best draining or ditching plow.

Diploma and

5 00

Best self-cleaning plow coulter

Diploma

Best attachment for any plow for subsoiling.

..Diploma

Best gang plow..........

Best dynamometer.

..Diploma
Medal

The business committee shall provide team and suitable grounds for trials of farm implements, and the viewing committee shall test the several kinds of plows which may be entered in competition, on land so provided for the purpose by the business committee, and it shall be their duty to prescribe the trials to which each kind shall be submitted, and the method of trying. The committee shall be required to make a written report of the trials, to be returned to the Secretary with the book of awards.

F-CLASS 31.-HARROWS, CULTIVATORS, SCARRIFIERS, HORSE HOES, AND ALL OTHER TILLAGE IMPLEMENTS.

Committee-Jno. Adams, Marshall; Jas. M. Naysmith, Schoolcraft; I. D. Cross, Hart

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Committee-Payne Leach, Utica; M. L. Williams, Hastings; A. E. Pardee, Plymouth.

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Best drill machine for sowing turnips, carrots, or beets, by horse power..

Best drill, for sowing seeds of root crops by hand..

Best machine for sowing plaster, ashes, or artificial manure.

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Best hand corn planter....

The viewing committee will test the entries in this class in such manner as shall be satisfactory, and in the same manner as the plows.

No premium is offered on seed drills, but they may be entered on exhibition.

F-CLASS 36.-HAYING AND HARVESTING IMPLEMENTS.

Committee-Myron Norton, Greenville, Montcalm; Asa L. Prindle, Golden, Oceana; W. J. Barnard, Litchfield.

Best machine for mowing lawns by hand..

Best loading apparatus..........

Best horse rake..

.Diploma

-Diploma

Diploma

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

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

Diploma

.Medal

Diploma

Diploma
Medal

..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.

F-CLASS 87.-APPARATUS AND MACHINES CONNECTED WITH THE CLEANING AND PREPATION OF CROPS FOR MARKET AND FOR THE FEEDING OF STOCK.

Committee-A. S. King, Pontiac; James Lee, Dowagiac; R. B. Griswold, Vermontville. Best railroad two-horse power, fitted to be attached to any machinery.

Best horse power for general use...

Diploma

.Diploma

Best fanning mill or grain cleaner..

Diploma

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

Diploma

Best straw and stalk cutter for hand power..

Diploma

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Best machine for pulping roots, that they may be mixed with cut straw, hay, or chaff.

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Best, simplest, and most substantial contrivance for steaming food for cattle and hogs, not less than twenty head of each.

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Best portable steam engine, to be used for agricultural purposes..

Diploma and medal

Best portable grist-mill...

Medal

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

Diploma

Best apparatus for evaporating sorghum or maple, shown in full operation on the ground

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Best hay or cattle scales, to be placed near the forage and cattle...

Diploma

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.

F-CLASS 38.-BARNYARD ARTICLES.

Committee-E. R. Webster, Jackson; Jonathan Sprague, Caro; E. R. Miller, Richland, Kalamazoo Co.

All miscellaneous articles pertaining to this division to be enumerated under this class, and the committee will make such recommendations as they may deem proper.

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Committee-George Peters, Petersburgh; Henry Nesbitt, Kalamazoo; Samuel Tingley,

Adrian.

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

Best cheese press..

Best milk pans, not less than six.

Best cheese vat, for cheese making.

Best milk strainer..

Best milk safe..

Best dozen brooms.

Best six mops and handles..

Best weights and scales for dairy use.

Best washing machine...

Best spinning wheel.

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Best clothes wringing machine..

$1.00

Best clothes horse...

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Best assortment of wooden ware for dairy or kitchen use.......

Diploma

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

Diploma

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DIVISION G-VEHICLES.

Superintendent-F. M. Manning, Paw Paw.

G-CLASS 40.-WAGONS AND CARRIAGES.

Committee-Hugh Johnson, Detroit; C. M. Morrell, Lawton, Van Buren Co.; Henry C.

Moore, Coldwater.

Best two-horse family carriage...

Second best two-horse family carriage..

-Diploma and $10 00

5 00

Best one horse carriage....

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H-CLASS 41.-MACHINERY FOR WORKING UPON IRON AND OTHER METALS.

Committee-John D. McClaren, Monroe, Mich.; S. V. Hakes, Flint, Mich.; Adolph

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