1.    All exhibitors agree to be bound by the rules and regulations of the Middletown Grange Fair. Each exhibitor is required to have a unique, computer generated, exhibitor’s number.

Bar Coded Entry Tags are required for each exhibited item and must be obtained from the Grange Fair Entry Center, Building 3A, BEFORE any item is submitted for entry in any department.

NO Exhibits will be accepted on Sunday, August 10 - tag pickup ONLY

      ALL ENTRIES WILL BE ON MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2008

2. The fair management reserves the right to amend or add to these rules and regulations as its judgment may determine.

3. Reasonable care will be taken to protect all exhibits on display from injury and damage but the fair is not, in any way, to be held responsible for accidents, loss or damage by water, fire, theft, or otherwise, whatever may be the cause or extent of the damage or loss. Any person detected tampering with the exhibits will be dealt with according to the law.

4. Entries will be made according to classification.

5. Premiums, as listed, may be given for meritorious exhibits. Ribbons are awarded for 1st, 2nd, 3rd places only, unless otherwise designated. In cases where there is not competition, judges may give an award such as they deem the exhibit is worthy to receive. The same rule applies where there are fewer entries in any class than the number of premiums offered. The judges may, at their discretion, award a prize or prizes of such grade, as the exhibit deserves. The fair reserves the right to determine how many entries they will accept from an exhibitor in the same class or in the case of livestock, the same breed, and poultry, the same species. The decision of the judges shall be final in all cases except where mistakes, fraud, misrepresentation, or collusion, not discovered at the time of the award, is proved. The Chairman of the Fair, or such referee as he may appoint, may make the decision.

6. It shall be the responsibility of the exhibitor to make known the proper name of the article or breed of livestock he is entering. Any item entered improperly will be disqualified to receive a prize, but the judges will mark the correct name on the entry tag for the benefit of the owner so the same mistake in entering need not be made the second time.

7. All entries will be grown, produced, or made ENTIRELY by the exhibitor.

8. Chairmen of departments reserve the right of refusing to accept any entry. Furthermore, the Chairmen reserve the right to bar from competition animals, vegetables, flowers, products, and manufactured articles of decidedly inferior quality and those not possessing sufficient merit to warrant recognition.

9. PLEASE NOTE: Entry tags will NOT be printed after 7:45 on Monday, August 11, 2008. This will allow our Department chairman adequate time to accept entries BEFORE the 8:00P.M. Deadline.

10. Entries must NOT BE REMOVED before 4:00 P.M. Sunday, August 17,2008. in order to participate in the payment of premiums or awards.

11. Award checks may be picked up in the Grange Fair Entry Center, Building 3A, on Sunday, August 17, 2008 between 4:00 and 6:00 P.M. You may also drop off a self-addressed stamped #10 envelope (4” X 91/2”) during the Fair and your check will be mailed to you. Either way helps the Grange.

12. Premium award checks must be cashed within 60 days from date of check.

13. Only items listed in the CURRENT catalog will be accepted and judged.

14. If proper conduct is NOT displayed by exhibitor’s, they will be asked to leave and will be disqualified from further showing.

15. If you wish to donate your award check back to the Grange scholarship fund, PLEASE endorse the check and deposit it at the Fair Entry Center, Building 3A. THANK YOU!!!