19-5-55 - Promotion of excellence in raising crops and livestock; limitation on amount to be expended. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 19-5-55. Promotion of excellence in raising crops and livestock; limitation on amount to be expended.
 

The amount of money to be appropriated and offered shall not exceed the following: (a) for corn - two hundred dollars for the best five acres or more, one hundred dollars for the second best and fifty dollars for the third best, or half the amounts for three acres; (b) for mule colt - not more than one hundred dollars for the best, seventy-five dollars for the second best and fifty dollars for the third best; (c) for horse colt - the same as for a mule colt; (d) for cow - not more than fifty dollars for the best, thirty dollars for the second best and twenty dollars for the third best; (e) for hog - the same as for a cow. Other premiums for excellence in raising agricultural, horticultural and livestock products may be given in proportion. No exhibit or entry of any kind which has once been awarded a prize shall be eligible at any other time for a prize. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hemingway's 1917, § 3787; 1930, § 274; 1942, § 2960; Laws,  1910, ch. 144.