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Excerpt from The One Hundredth North Carolina State Fair, October 9-14, 1967, Raleigh: Premium List The Society itself was founded in 1818, in Raleigh. Its constitution was published the following year by J Gales, who was a newspaperman and public printer, who had founded and published The Raleigh Register since 1799. Among the major objectives of the Society was the collecting, preserving and distributing of information regarding better farming practices. It was planned, then, to offer premiums of cups, silver plate and money to farmers who developed better methods and practices for crop improvement, or designed and built more effective implements for planting, cultivating and harvesting of crops. One of the earliest resolutions approved by the Society was that the Society sponsor a cattle shew and an exhibition of domestic manufactures. However, the earlier awards were presented after judging was done at the farm, and it is presumed that there was a board of visiting or traveling judges who viewed the animals, crops and produce actually on the farm lands or in the barns of the individual landowners. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.