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51. 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 vegetating, 

 and in every other respect fit for the purpose of 

 iet, and the use of the table, and, consequently, of 

 supporting and fattening cattle; the silver medal, 

 or twenty guinea-. It is required, that a full 

 and accurate account of the method employed, 

 and the expense attending the process, with cer- 

 tificates that one hundred bushels at the least 



have been preserved according to 

 scribed, and that one or more bushels of the same 

 potatoes have been set, and produced a crop with- 

 out any apparent diminution of their vegetative 

 power; and also that they have been used at 

 table, with entire satisfaction to the person Who 

 eat of them, together with a sample of one bushel, 

 be sent to the Society on or before the first Tues- 

 day in November, 1^04. 



40. Making Meadow-Hay in wet Wea- 

 ther.. To the person who shall discover to the 

 Society the best and cheapest method, superior to 

 any hitherto practised, of making meadow-hay 

 in wet weather; the gold medal, or thirty gui- 

 neas. A full account of the method employed, 

 and of the expense :>.ttendi 



tijicatcs and the chemical results of the analysis, 

 which arc to remain the property of the Society, 

 on or before the last Tuesday in November, 

 1803. 



It is expected that a quantity, not less than 

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

 the improved soils, be produced with the certi- 

 ficates. 



43. Improvino Land lyino waste. For 

 the most satisfactory account of the best method 

 of improving any of the following soils, bciug 



gra- 



not less than fifty-six pound; 



the process, with 

 of the hay ; and 



certificates that at least the produce of six acres 

 of land has been made according to the method 

 described, and that the whole is of equal quality 

 with the samples; to be produced on or before 

 the first Tuesday in January, 1803. 



41. Harvesting Corn in wet Weather. 

 To the person who shall discover to the Society 

 the best and cheapest method, superior to any 

 hitherto practised, of harvesting corn in wet 

 weather; the gold medal, or thirty guineas. 

 A full account of the method employed, and of 

 the expense attending the process, with not less 

 than two sheaves of the corn, and certificates that 

 at least the produce of ten acres has been har- 

 vested according to the method described, and 

 that the whole is of equal quality with the sam- 

 ples, to be produced on or before the first Tues- 

 day in January, 1803. 



42. Ascertaining The component Parts 

 of arable Land. To the person who shall 

 produce to the Society the most satisfactory set 

 of experiments to ascertain the due proportion 

 of the several component parts of rich arable land, 

 in one or more couuties in Great Britain, by an 

 accurate analysis of it ; and who having made a 

 like analysis of some poor arable land|ihall, bv 

 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 manurings, ploughings, and 

 crops, ot the improved laud, be the same after 

 the improvement as before; and that a minute 

 account of the produce in each s'.ate, of the wea- 

 ther, and of the various influencing circum- 

 stauccs, together with the method made utcof in 

 analysing the soils, be produced, with proper ar- 



he method de- land lying waste or uncultivated, viz. clay. 



vel, sand, chalk, peat-earth and bog, verified by 

 expcriinents on not less than fifty acres of land; 

 the gold medal, or thirty guineas. 



44. 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 expense at- 

 tending 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 be- 

 fore the first Tuesday in February, 1803. ' 



45. Manures. For the most satisfactory set 

 of experiments, to ascertain the comparative ad- 

 vantages of the following manures, used as top- 

 dressings on grass or corn land, viz. soot, coal- 

 ashes, wood-ashes^ lime, gypsum^ night-soil, of 

 any other fit article; the gold medal, or the sil- 

 ver medal and twenty guineas. It is required 

 that the above experiments be made between 

 two or more of the above-mentioned manures, 

 and that not less than two acres of land be dressed 

 with each manure. An account of the nature 

 of the soil, quantity and expense of the manure 

 and crops, with certijicates, to be produced on 

 or before the last Tuesday in February, 1805. 



46. The same premium is extended one year 

 farther. The accounts and certificates to be 

 produced on or before the last Tuesday in Fe- 

 bruary, 1804. 



47. Gaining Land from the Sea. To 

 the person who shall produce to the Society an 

 account of the best method, verified by actual 

 experiment, of gaining land from the sea, not 

 less than twenty acres, on the coast of Great 

 Britain or Ireland; the gold medal. Certifi- 

 cates of the quantity of land, and that the expe- 

 riments were begun after the 1st of January, 

 1796, to be produced to the Society on or before 

 the first Tuesday in October, 1S0'2. 



48. The same premium is extended one year 

 farther. Certificates to be produced on or be- 

 fore the first Tuesday in October, 1803. 



49. The ?ame premium is extended one year 

 farther. Ccriijicatcs to be produced on or be- 

 fore the first Tuesday in October, 1804. 



50. Machine por dibblino Wheat. To 

 the person who shall invent a machine, superior 

 to any hitherto known or in use, to answer the 

 purpose of dibbling wheat, by which the holes 

 for receiving the grain may be made at equal 

 distances and proper depths j the silTer naeflUd, 



