100 



Premiums in 



year ; together with an account of the produce, 

 the weight per Winchester bushel ; and a sam- 

 ple, not less than a q.urt, be produced to^the 

 Society on or before the second Tuesday in Fe- 

 bruary, 1305. 



, It is supposed that sowing wheat early in the 

 spring wjll not only allow more time to till the 

 land, hut less lor the growth of weeds ; thus 

 rendering the wheat as clean as a barley crop, 

 air! exhausting the soil much less than autum- 

 nal sowiug. It may be seen in the 19th volume, 

 that the wheat usually sown in autumn may be 

 put into the ground, with great success, so late 

 as February or March, thus giving time to clear 

 the ground from turnips, or to avoid a bad season. 

 3£i Beans and Wheat. To the person 

 who- shall have dibbled or drilled, between the 

 1st of December, 1803, and the 1st of April, 

 1804, the greatest qua*nt>y of land, not less than 

 ten acres, with beans, in equidistant rows, and 

 hoed the intervals twiee or oftener, and shall 

 have sown the same laud With wheat in the au- 

 tumn of the year 1804 ; the gold medal. It is 

 required that an account of the sort and quan- 

 tity of beans, the time of dibbling or drilling, 

 •ad of reaping ov mowing them, the produce 

 per acre tnrushed, the expense of dibbling or 

 drilling hand or horse hoeing, the distance of 

 the rows, and the quality of the soil, together 

 with certificates of the number of acres, and 

 that the land was afterwards actually sown with 

 wheat, be produced on or before the second 

 Tuesday in March, 1805. 



33. Beans. To the person who, in the 

 year 1803, shall discover and cultivate, either 

 by the drill or dibbling method, on not less than 

 rive acres, a species of horse-beans or tick-beans, 

 that will ripen their seeds before the 21st of 

 August ; the silver medal, or ten guineas. It 

 is required that a particular account of the bean, 

 the cultivation, and the expense attending it, 

 with proper certificates of the nature and condi- 

 tion of the land on which the experiments are 

 made, together with an account of the produce, 

 the weight per Winchester bushel, and a sample 

 of not less than a quart, be produced to the So- 

 ciety on or before the lirst Tuesday in Decem- 

 ber, 1804. It is apprehended that, if a bean 

 should be brought into cultivation with tin- ha- 

 bits of the hotspur, or other early peas, that it 

 would, in a great measure, escape the danger 

 wising iron* the collier-insect, or other inlets, 

 »nd allow more time lor the iarmers to till the 

 land tor the subsequent crop of wheat. The 

 mccdtek and cert-ficritrs to be delivered on or 

 before the fust Tuesday in December, 1804. 



34. The same premium is extended one 

 •ycir farther. The acemtnts and certificates to 

 'be delivered on or before the first Tuesday in 

 December, 1805. 



35. Comparative Cut. tube of Turnips. 

 For the best set of experiments made on not less 

 than eight acres of land, four ot which tp be sown 



Agriculture. 



broad-ca«t, and four drilled, to ascertain wi- 

 ther it is most advantageous to cultivate turnip* 

 by sowing them broadest and baud-hoeing 

 them, or by drilling them m equidistant rows, 

 and baud or horse hoeiug the intervals ; \\vz 

 silver medal, or ten guineas. It is, required, that 

 every operation and expense of each mode of 

 culture be tally described, and that proper cer* 

 tyicates of the nature and condition of the land 

 on which the experiments were made, together 

 with the weight of the turnips grown, on a r-dr 

 average sixteen perches of land, under each 

 mode of culture, be produced to the Society on 

 or before the first Tuesday in March, 1805. 

 The object winch the Society have in view in 

 ottering this premium is experimentally to as- 

 certain the most advantageous method of grow- 

 ing turnips. To do this in a satisfactory man- 

 ner, both the drilled and broad-cart crops should 

 have the advantage of the most perfect cultiva- 

 tion, consequently the drilled crops should have 

 the intervals between the rows worked by the 

 horse or hand hoe, or by both these implements; 

 and the rows should be either weeded or hand- 

 hoed, or both weeded and hand-hoed. ']!;•.} 

 broadcast crop should have every advantage 

 which weeding and hand-hoeing can give it, 

 consistently with leaving the soil a flat surface. 



56, The same premium is extended one year 

 farther. Certificates to be produced on or be- 

 fore the Stet Tuesday in March, 1806. 



ST. Pap snips. To the person who, in tho 

 year 1804, shall cultivate the greatest quan- 

 tity of land, not less than five acres, with 

 parsnips^ for the sole purpose of feeding cat- 

 tle or sheep: the gold medal, Cerirficattt 

 of the quantity of land so cultivated, -with a par- 

 ticular account of the nature of the soil and 

 weight of the produce on sixteen perches, and 

 also of the condition of the cattle or sheep fed 

 with the parsnips, and the advantages resulting, 

 from the practice, to be produced to the Society 

 on or before the second day in February, 1805, 



38, Buck Wheat. To the person who 

 shall cultivate the greatest quantity of land with 

 buck wheat, not less than thirty acres; the gold 

 medal. It is required that the time of sowing 

 and reaping be noticed ; also a particular 

 account of the species, cultivation, and expense 

 attending it, the manner of reaping it, thra- hing 

 it, and housing the grain ; with proper certifi* 

 tiaUt of the nature and condition of the, land 

 on which the experiments were made, and the 

 name of the crop, if any, which the same land 

 bore the preceding year, together with an 

 account of the produce, and a sample of the 

 seed, not less than a quart, be produced to tho 

 Society on or before the second Tuesday in 

 January, 1805. 



39. For the next greatest quantity, not less 

 than fifteen acres, on similar conditions ; the 

 silver medal. Information respecting its ap- 

 plication to the feeding of cattle, hogs, and 



