Bridgewater Country Fair

Exhibit Rules

All Senior and Junior Division entries must be placed between 8:30 am and 12:00 noon Friday, August 19, 2011. No entries will be accepted after that time. The exhibit will be closed at 12:00 Noon for preparation and judging.
The Junior Division is strictly for exhibitors age 15 and under who personally bring in their own vegetables for entry. Their entries must have been raised in their own garden, and have been tended and cared for during the growing season by the Junior exhibitor themselves. No parents, grandparents, etc. are allowed to enter this division in the name of a Junior exhibitor. No commercial growers are allowed in the Junior Division.
The exhibitor is responsible for providing the exact class, variety, and proper number of specimens designated for judging for each entry. No exhibitor may have more than one entry in each class.
Each entry will be judged on uniformity in shape, size, color and quality. Each entry should be of market size and eating quality, and be free of soil, disease, insect and mechanical injury.
Specimens should be trimmed. Roots should be left on beets, turnips, carrots, leeks, celery, and onions. Cabbage and cauliflower trimmed close so that only 3 or 4 leaves curl away from the head. Corn should be shucked. Leaves / tops must be removed from carrots, rhubarb and beets. Leeks should be trimmed. Grape tomatoes must be a cluster of specimens on a single stem.
“Best of Show ” will be chosen from any class except Class 113 - Any Vegetable Not Listed. The variety name must be listed for all specimens entered in any “other” class.
Ribbons and prize money must be picked up on Sunday, August 21, 2011 between the hours of 10:00 am and 5:00 pm. None will be mailed. Unclaimed prize money will be donated to the Bridgewater Fire Department. NOTE: Commercial growers receive ribbons but no premiums.
All entries, with the exception of potted specimen plants, become the property of the Fair Committee. None will be returned or sold. All entries and their containers (including all of the vegetable arrangements and bouquet containers) must remain on display until they are released at 6:00 pm on Sunday, August 21, 2011.

Class 1 - FRUIT ARRANGEMENT

Best collection of 5 different varieties of fruits.
Cannot contain baked goods, prepared food products or vegetables in the display.
Fruit must be of market quality, in natural state and without decoration.

Class 2 - VEGETABLLE ARRANGEMENT

Best of 10 or more different vegetables in a flat container or basket.
Judged equally on: artistic appeal specimen quality, number of species and types.
Cannot contain baked goods, prepared food products or fruit in the display.
Vegetables must be in natural state and without decoration.

Class 3 - SPECIMEN PLANTS

Any vegetable or fruit plant potted, settled, growing, and without wilt.
Judged on appearance, maturity, labeling, apparent care and forethought.

FRUITS:
Class 4 - Apples (5 specimens)
Class 5 - Blackberries (1 pint)
Class 6 - Blueberries (1 pint)
Class 7 - Melon, any variety ( 1 specimen)
Class 8 - Peaches (5 specimens)
Class 9 - Pears (5 specimens)
Class 10 - Any fruit not listed

VEGETABLES:
Beans (10 pods)
Class 11 - Green Flat
Class 12 - Green Round
Class 13 - Red Pole Beans
Class 14 - Yellow Flat
Class 15 - Yellow Round
Class 16 - Purple
Class 17 - Any other bean variety
Class 18 - Beets (3 specimens)
Class 19 - Broccoli (1 head)
Cabbage (1 head)
Class 20 - Green
Class 21 - Savoy
Class 22 - Red
Class 23 - Carrots (5 specimens)
Class 24 - Cauliflower (1 head)
Class 25 - Celery (1 head)
Class 26 - Chard (1 plant)
Corn (5 ears)
Class 27 - Sweet, any variety
Class 28 - Ornamental Corn
Cucumber (3 specimens)
Class 29 - China Long
Class 30 - Green Slicing
Class 31 - Pickling
Eggplant
Class 32 - Bi-Color
Class 33 - Purple
Class 34 - White
Class 35 - Any other Eggplant variety
Gourds
Class 36 - Arrangement (6 specimens)
Class 37 - Large (1 specimen)
Herbs (1 container)
Class 38 - Same Variety Bouquet
Class 39 - Mixed Variety Bouquet
Class 40 - Potted Plant
Class 41 - Kale (1 plant)
Class 42 - Kohlrabi (1 plant)
Lettuce (1 head/plant)
Class 43 - Head, Green
Class 44 - Head, Red
Class 45 - Loose Leaf, Green
Class 46 - Loose Leaf, Red
Onions (3 specimens or as listed)
Class 47 - Garlic
Class 48 - Shallots
Class 49 - Leeks
Class 50 - Scallion/Bunching (5 specimens)
Class 51 - Red
Class 52 - White
Class 53 - Yellow Globe
Class 54 - Any Other Onion Variety

Peppers (3 specimens)
Class 55 - Cayenne
Class 56 - Cherry
Class 57 - Green Hot
Class 58 - Green Sweet Bell
Class 59 - Red/Yellow Sweet Bell
Class 60 - Habanero
Class 61 - Italian Frying
Class 62 - Jalapeno
Class 63 - Yellow Hot
Class 64 - Yellow Sweet
Class 65 - Any other pepper variety

Potatoes (3 specimens)
Class 66 - Blue/Purple
Class 67 - Fingerling
Class 68 - Green Mountain
Class 69 - Katahdin
Class 70 - Kennebec
Class 71 - Red
Class 72 - Russet
Class 73 - Yukon Gold
Class 74 - Any other potato variety

Pumpkins (1 specimen or as listed)
Class 75 - CT Field/other large variety
Class 76 - Sugar
Class 77 - Miniature (3 specimens)

Class 78 - Rhubarb (5 stems)

Squash (1 specimen for all varieties)
Class 79 - Acorn
Class 80 - Butternut
Class 81– Crook Neck
Class 82 - Scalloped / Patti Pan
Class 83 - Spaghetti
Class 84 - Straight Neck
Class 85 - Green Zucchini
Class 86 - Golden Zucchini
Class 87 - Any Other Squash Variety

Tomatoes (3 specimens - or as noted)
Class 88 - Beefsteak
Class 89 - Better Boy
Class 90 - Celebrity
Class 91 - Early Girl
Class 92 - Grape Cluster (7 specimens)
Class 93 - Sm. Red Round / Pear <= 1” (7 specimens)
Class 94 - Sm. Yellow Round / Pear <= 1” (7 specimens)
Class 95 - Red Round / Pear > 1” (7 specimens)
Class 96 - Yellow Round / Pear > 1” (7 specimens)
Class 97 - Larger Italian Plum / Roma
Class 98 - Small Plum / Juliet
Class 99 - Jet Star
Class 100 - Orange
Class 101 - Pink
Class 102 - Rutgers
Class 103 - Yellow
Class 104 - Tomatillo
Class 105 - Any other Tomato variety
Class 106 - Turnip (3 specimens)
Class 107 - Any vegetable not listed
Class 108 - Biggest Squash or Pumpkin
Class 109 - Largest Zucchini
Class 110 - Tallest Cornstalk
Class 111 - Tallest Sunflower
Class 112 - Vegetable Novelty
. . . . . . . . . a. natural state
. . . . . . . . . b. embellished
Class 113 - Largest Tomato

Class 113 - Largest Tomato

Senior Division:

Tomato must weigh at least 2 lbs.
The ripe, market quality tomato must have a stem.
Prize money donated by The Golembeski Family in memory of Anna Golembeski.

1st Prize - $15.00 . . . . . . .2nd Prize - $10.00 . . . . . . .3rd Prize - $5.00

Junior Division:

Tomato must weigh at least 1 lb.
Prize money donated by The Golembeski Family in memory of Stash Golembeski.

1st Prize - $15.00 . . . . . . 2nd Prize - $10.00 . . . . . . 3rd Prize - $5.00

FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PREMIUMS:

Class . . . . . . 1st . . . . . .. . 2nd . ... . . . . 3rd
1&2 . . . . . . $10.00 . . . . . . $7.00 . . . . . . $5.00
3 -112 . . . . . $3.00 . . . . . . $2.00 . . . . . . $1.00

Please note: A 1st prize winner, without any competition, will be paid only the 2nd prize premium.