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Premiums in 



prescrvine carrots, parsnips, or beets, perfectly 

 5ound, and in every respect (it tor the purpose 

 of supporting horses, and fattening sheep and 

 neat cattle, daring the months of February, 

 March, and April ; the silver medal, or fifteen 

 guineas. Conditions the same as for preserving 

 turnips, CI. 48. And the accounts to be deli- 

 vered in on or before the first day in November, 

 1805. 



53. Preserving Potatoes. To the person 

 who shall discover to the Society the best and 

 cheapest method of preserving potatoes, two or 

 more years, perfectly sound, without vegeta- 

 ting, and in every other respect fit for the 

 purpose of sets and the use of the table, and, 

 consequently, of supporting and fattening cat- 

 tle ; the gold medal, or thirty guineas. It is 

 required, that a full and accurate account of 

 the method employed, and the expense attend- 

 ing the process, with certificates that one hun- 

 dred bushels at the Jeast have been preserved 

 according to the method described, and that 

 one or more bushels of the same potatoes have 

 been set, and produced a crop without any 

 apparent diminution of their vegetative power, 

 and also that they hare been used at taWe, 

 with entire satisfaction to the person who ate 

 of them, together with a sample of one bushel, 

 be sent to the Society on or beibre the first 

 Tuesday in November, 1805. 



54. Making Mkadow-Hay in wit Wli- 

 tiii v.. To the person who shall discover to 

 the Society the best and cheapest method, su- 

 perior to any hitherto practised, of making 

 meadow-hay in wet weather ; llie gold medal, 

 or thirty guineas. A full account of the me- 

 thod employed, and of the expense attending 

 the process, with not less than fifty-six pounds 

 of the hay; and certificates .ihat at least the 

 produce of six acres of land has been made ac- 

 cording to the method described, and that the 

 whole is of equal quality with the sample ; to 

 be produced on or before tbc first Tuesday in 

 January, 1805. 



55. HarvfstinoCorn in wetWtathfr. 

 To rhe person who shall discover to the Society 

 Etc b^st and cheapest method, superior to any 

 hitherto practised, of harvesting coin in wet 

 v-cather ; the gold medal, or thirty guineas. 

 A full account of the method employed, and of 

 the e*pt nse attending the process, with not less 

 titan two sheaves of the corn, and certificates 

 that, at least the produce of ten acres has been 

 harvested according to the method described, 

 end that the whole is of equal quality with the 

 ■atopies, to be produced on or before the first 

 Tuesday in January, 1805. 



56. Ascertaining tjikcomponfnt Parts 

 of arable Land. To the person who shall 

 produce to the Society the most satisfactory set 

 •f experiments to ascertain the due proportion 

 of the several component parts of rich arable 

 land, in one or more counties ia Great Britain, 



Agriculture. 



by an accurate analysis of it ; and who having 

 made a like analysis of some poor arable land, 

 shall, by comparing the component parts of 

 each, and thereby ascertaining the deficiencies 

 of the poor soil, improve a quantity of it, not 

 less than one acre, by the addition of such parts 

 as the former experiments shall have discovered 

 to be wanting therein, and therefore probably 

 the cause of its sterility ; the gold medal, or 

 forty guineas. It is required, that the ma- 

 nurings, ploughing*, and crops, of the improved 

 land, be the same alter the improvement as 

 before ; and that a minute account of the pro- 

 duce in each state, of the weather, and of the 

 various influencing circumstances, together 

 with the method made use of in analysing the 

 soils, be produced, with proper certificates and 

 the chemical results of the analysis, which are 

 to remain the property of the Society, on or 

 before the last Tuesday in February, 1805. 



It is expected that a quantity, not less than 

 six pounds, of the rich, of the poor, and of 

 the improved soiis, be produced with the certU 

 Jicates. 



57. Gaining Land from the Ska. To 

 the person who shall produce to the Society 

 an account, verified by actual experiment, 

 of his having gained the greatest quantity of 

 land from the sea, not less than fifty acres, 

 on the coast of Great Britain or Ireland ; the 

 gold medal. Certificates of the quantity of 

 land, and that the experiments were begun 

 after the 1st of January, 1798, to be produced 

 to the Society on or before the last Tuesday in 

 October, 1804. 



58. The same premium is extended one year 

 farther. Certificates to be produced on or be- 

 fore the last Tuesday in October, 1805. 



59. The same premium is extended one year 

 farther. Certificates to be produced on or be- 

 fore the last Tuesday in October, 1806. 



60. Improving Land eying waste. For 

 the most satisfactory account of the best me- 

 thod of improving any of the following soils, 

 being land lying waste or uncultivated, viz. 

 clay, gravel, sand, chalk, peat-earth and bog". 

 verified by experiments on not less than fifty 

 acres of land ; the gold medal, or thirty guineas; 



61. For the next greatest quantity, not less 

 than thirty acres, the silver medal, or twenty 

 guineas. It is required, that the land before 

 such improvement be absolutely uncultivated, 

 and in a great measure useless, and that, in its 

 improved state, it be enclosed, cultivated, and 

 divided into closes. Certificates of the number 

 of acres, of the quality of the land so improved, 

 with a full account of every operation and ex- 

 pense attending such improvement, the state it 

 is in as to the proportion of grass to arable, 

 and the average value thereof, to be produced 

 on or before the. first Tuesday in Februarys 805. 



6'J. Man up is. For the most satisfactory 

 set of experiments, to ascertain the comparative. 



