Premiums in Agriculture. 



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21. Forest-trees. To the person who 

 shall have inclosed and planted, or set, the 

 greatest number of acres (not less than ten) of 

 tend, that is inca^ble of bring ploughed, such 

 •es the borders of rivers, the sides of precipices, 

 and any land that has too many rocks, or that 

 is not calculated to repay the expense of till- 

 age, owing to the stillness or poverty of the 

 soil, the surface being too hilly, mountainous, 

 or otherwise unlit for tillage, with the best 

 sorts of forest-trees, namely, oak, Spanish 

 chesnuts, ash, elm, beech, alder, willow, larch, 

 spruce and silver fir, with or without screens 

 of Scotch fir, adapted to the soil, and intended 

 for timber-trees, between the first of October, 

 1801, and the first of April, 1802; the gold 

 medal. 



22. For the second greatest quantity of land, 

 not less than seven acres ; the silver medal, or 

 ten guineas. 



23. For .the third greatest quantity of land, 

 not less than live acres, the silver medal. A 

 particular account of the methods used in 

 making and managing the plantations, the na- 

 ture of the soil, tlie probable number of each 

 sort of plants, together with proper certificates 

 that they were in a healthy and thriving state 

 two years at least alter making the plantation, 

 to be delivered to the Society on or before the 

 first Tuesday in November, 1804. 



24. 25, 26. The same premiums arc ex* 

 tended one year farther. Certificates to be pro- 

 duced on or before the firat Tuesday in No- 

 vember, 1805. 



N. B. With the above forest-trees, the seeds, 

 cuttings, or plants, of such other trees as are 

 adapted to the soil, and proper for underwood, 

 may or may not be intermixed. 



N. B. The candidates for planting all hinds 

 cf trees are to produce certificates that the rc- 

 tpective plantations arc properly fenced and se- 

 cured, and particularly to state the condition of 

 the plants pi the time of signing such certificates. 

 Any information which the candidates for the 

 foregoing premiums may choose to communicate, 

 relative to the methods made use of in forming 

 the plantations, or promoting the groioth of the 

 several trees, or any other observations that may 

 have occurred on the subject, tviil be thankfully 

 received. 



27. Securing Plantation* of Timber- 

 trees, and Hedgf.-ro ws-. To the person 

 who shall give to the Society the most satisfac- 

 tory account, founded on experience, of the 

 most cfVectual and Jeast expensive method of 

 securing young plantations of timber-trees, and 

 hedge-rows, from hares and rabbits, as well as 

 sheep and larger cattle, which at the same 

 time shall be least subject to the depredations 

 of wood-stealers, the silver medal, or ten gui- 



neas. The accounts, and certificates of the effi- 

 cacy of the method, to be produced to the 

 Society on or before the first Tuesday in No- 

 vember, 1804. 



28. The same premium is extended one 

 year farther. The aecoimls and certificates to 

 be produced on or before the first Tuesday in 

 November, 1805. 



29. Comparative Tillage, For the 

 most satisfactory set of experiments, made on 

 not less than eight acres of land, tour of which to 

 be trench-ploughed,* and four to be ploughed 

 in the usual manner, in order to ascertain in 

 what cases it may be advisable to shorten 

 the operations of tillage, by adopting one 

 trench-ploughing, for the purpose of burying 

 the weeds, instead of the method, now in com- 

 mon use, of ploughing and harrowing the land 

 three or four limes, and raking the weeds to- 

 gether and burning thera ', the gold medal. It 

 is required that every operation and expense 

 attending each mode of culture be fully and 

 accurately described, and that proper certifi- 

 cates of the nature and condition of the land on 

 which the experiments are made, together with 

 a circumstantial account of the appearance of 

 the subsequent crops during their growth ; and 

 also of the quantity and weight of the corn and 

 straw under each mode of culture, or, in case 

 of a green crop, the weight of an average six- 

 teen perches, be produced to the Society on or 

 before the first Tuesday m February, 1805. ' 



30. Comparative Culture of Wheat, 

 »road-ca«t, drilled, and dibbled. for 

 the best set of experiments, made on not less 

 than twelve acres, four of which to be sown 

 broadcast, four drilled, and four dibbled, the 

 two latter in equidistant row:;, hi order fully 

 to ascertain which is the most advantageous 

 mode of cultivating wheat ; the gold medal, or 

 thirty guineas. It is required that every opc^ 

 ration and expense of each mode of culture be 

 fully described ; and that proper certificates of 

 the nature and condition of the land on which 

 the experiments are made, together with an ac- 

 count of the produce of the corn, the weight 

 per bushel, and also Gf the straw, be produced 

 to the Society on or before the first Tuesday ia 

 February, 1805. 



31. Spring Wheat. To the person who, 

 between the 10th of January and the 10th of 

 April, 1804, shall cultivate the greatest quan- 

 tity of wheat, not less than ten acres ; the gold 

 medal. li is required, that the time of sowing 

 and reaping be noticed -, also a particular ac- 

 count of rhe species, cultivation, and expense 

 attending it, with proper certificates of the na- 

 ture and condition of the land on which the ex- 

 periments were made, and the name of the crop, 

 if any, which the same land bore the preceding 



* It is a common practice among gardeners, when the* have a piece of very foul land, to dig it two spits, 

 «r about eighteen inches deep, shovelling the weeds to the bottom, 'this they call trenching. 



