Miss. Code § 19-5-55

Current through the 2024 Regular Session
Section 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 ($200.00) for the best five acres or more, One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for the second best and Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for the third best, or half the amounts for three acres;
(b) for mule colt - not more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for the best, Seventy-five Dollars ($75.00) for the second best and Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for the third best;
(c) for horse colt - the same as for a mule colt;
(d) for cow - not more than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for the best, Thirty Dollars ($30.00) for the second best and Twenty Dollars ($20.00) 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.

Miss. Code § 19-5-55

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