NEBRASKA FARMER SPECIAL PREMIUMS.



To commemorate its Twenty-sixth anniversary and to contribute to the success of
the Trans-Mississippi & International Exposition, the publishers of the
Nebraska Farmer, H. F. McIntosh, Editor offered $1,350.00 in special premiums
to exhibitors and patrons of the Exposition under the following conditions.

1st.  In Live Stock, all animals shall be pure bred and American Bred.

2nd.  The winning animal in each class will be the one adjudged best by the
regular judge or judges employed by the Exposition Management or the
Superintendent of the Live Stock Exhibits.

3rd.  In every class where awards are to be made, there must be three or more
competitors.

$850.00 of the amount for special premiums was arranged to cover exhibits of
cattle, horses, sheep, swine, fat stock, poultry, apiarian goods and supplies,
honey, wax, ornamental, etc.  These premiums covered all classes of the various
exhibits and the length of the list prevents its being included in detail in
this report.  These premiums were all payable in advertising in the Nebraska
Farmer.

Cash premiums aggregating $500 and ranging from $100 to $1.00 were offered by
the Nebraska Farmer to subscribers who were first to guess nearest to the total
number of paid admissions to the Exposition during its full period, from June
1st to November 1st, 1898, 153 days in all.  This offer was made under specific
conditions and provided for premiums on the 163 nearest estimates.



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clarificaton 1998)


The foregoing report of proceedings, including report of assistants, together
with the list of exhibitors to whom awards were made practically covers the
work of this department, stated as briefly as possible for historical purposes. 
It would be impracticable  to give a list of all exhibitors and hence it has
been thought wise to confine the information as to exhibitors in this record to
those to whom awards were made.

I desire in this connection to return my thanks and those of my assistants to
the gentlemen who served as judges and clerks in the various departments,
acting with the various superintendents and thus making in each class of
exhibits a committee of three, consisting of the judges, superintendents and
clerks, in scoring and recording the findings as to the relative values of the
various exhibits.

I desire further to extend my thanks to you as manager of the Department of
Exhibits and to those of the Exposition management who contributed by their aid
and helpful influence toward making the work of your superintendent both
pleasant and satisfactory.

With respect, I am Very Truly Yours,

John B. Dinsmore,
Superintendent of Exhibits
Department of Live Stock
Dairy and Dairy Products.