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Agriculture Horticulture:Agricultural Premiums.CJ » _ I«The County -Agricultural Committee are requested, by a notice in the Courier to meet soon to arrange the premiums for the next Agricultural Fair. Let me suggest that instead of money, they should award agricultural books, and papers, ^because1st. There is much need that the infor-j,* „mation contained in these works should be diffused 'among the citizens of our county.2d. This is the cheapest form in which i( can bo obtained.'' Papers and books for premiums arc sold-at half the retail price.. 3d.- A -premium, in its very nature, is something to be preserved as a kind of token.' If Jt be xt booker bound volume of a.A paper, properly labelled by the- officers, if will be so. preserved, and be a kind of ulicn loocif in the family. 'Money, on the other hand, is spent, and now the man, nor his family are the beitcr for it Last fall, the writer received a couple of premiums from the Count}'. Society. They were paid in money,-and went with other expenditure*. If they had been in books it would have been prized much higher both by himself and liis childrcn-.Let us have this policy changed, and the plan pursued, winch is adopted by other Agricultural Societies,—to award no premiums, except in books, papers, or medals. C.oPeddrI;ilhS'nv
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Elyria Courier
Elyria, Ohio, US
Tue, May 04, 1847
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