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Premiums in Agriculture. 



one year further. Certificates to be produced 



00 or Moore the first Tuesday in Nov. 1806. 



7. Ascertaining the best method of 

 Raising Oaks. To the person who shall as- 

 certain in the best manner, by actual experi- 

 ments, tjie comparative merits of the diffeent 

 piodes of raising oaks for timber, either from 

 acorns set on land ol the foregoing. description 

 properly dug or tilled, from arums set by, the 

 sfade or dibble, without digging or tillage, 

 either on a smooth surface, or among bushes, 

 fern, or other cover $ or from young plauts pre- 

 viously rai-ed iri nurseries, and transplanted J re- 

 gard being had to the expense, growth, and 

 other respective advantages of the several me- 

 thod.^; the gold medal. The accounts and pro- 

 per < o7 /'//.„/ r . v that not less than one acre has 

 been Cultivated in each mode, to be produced to 

 the Society on or before the first Tuesday in No- 

 vember, 1S02, 



8. The same premium is extended one year 

 farther. The accounts ai)ci certificates to be pro* 

 duced on or before the first Tuesday in Novem? 

 l>er, 1803. 



9. Osiers. To the person who shall have 

 planted, between the 1st of October, 1801, and 

 the first of May, 180*2, the greatest Quantity of 

 land, not less than five acres, with those kinds of 

 billows, commonly known by the names of 

 osier, Spaniard, new-kind, or French, fit for the 

 purpose of basket-makers, not fewer than twelve 

 thousand plants on each acre; the gold medal, 

 Or thirty guineas. 



10. For the second greatest quantity of land, 

 jiot less than three acres j the silver medal, or ten 

 guineas. Certificates of the plunling, and that 

 the plants were in a thriving state five months at 

 least after tie planting, to be produced to the 

 Society on or before the last Tuesday in Novem- 

 ber, 1S02. 



11. The same premiums are extended one 

 year farther. Ceriifu ales to be produced on or 

 before the last Tuesday in Nov. ISpC. 



*#* Tin' < ■ nmlt dales for planting all kinds of 

 trees are in prod/ice certificates that the respective 

 J>/a»:ations are / rnhernj fenced and secured, and 

 particularly to stale the condition of -the plants at 

 tin- time of signing such certificates. Any infor- 

 mation which the candidates for the foregoing pre- 

 Viiums may choi se to communicate) relative to the 

 vi'thvisvi'itie us<- of in forming t lie plantations, or 

 promofi»g the gwxth of the si vera! trees, or any 

 Other i that man have occurred on live 



suhjett, v // be thankfully receive.', 



V2. Securing Plantations pf Timber- 

 trees, and Hkdge-rows. Tolheperson who 

 shall give to the Society the most satisfactory ac- 

 count, founded on experience, pf the. most edec? 

 tual and leas evpensh e method of securing voung 

 plantations of timber-trees, and hedge-rows, from 

 hares and rabbits, as well as sheep and larger cat-r 

 tie, which at the same time shall be least subject 

 to the' depredations of wood -stealers, the 

 medal, or twenty guineas. The accounts and 

 cni.fcnies of the efficacy of the method to be pro- 



duced to the Society on or before the first Tues* 

 day in November, 1802. 



13. Thesame premium is extended one year far* 

 filer. The accounts and certificates to be produced 



Oil or before the lir>t Tuesday in Nov. 1803. 



14. I'rkvim i.NG the Blight, or Ravages 

 op Insects, on Pru it-trees anp Culi- 

 nary Plants. To the person who shall disco- 

 ver to the Society the most effectual method of 

 preventing the blight, or ravages of insects, on 

 fruit-trees and culinary plants, superior to any 

 hitherto known or practised, and verified by ac- 

 tual and comparative experiments ; the gold me- 

 dal, or thirty guineas. The acroua/s, with proper 

 certificates, to he delivered to tin- Societ on or 

 before the second Tuesday in No\ ember, 180 J. 



15. The same premium is extended one year 

 farther. The account* and ct-rlifa ol"s to he de- 

 livered on or before the second Tuesday in No- 

 vember, 1803. 



16. Removing the illEffectso-f Blights, 

 or Insects. To the person who shall discover 

 to the St cietv the most effectual method of re- 

 moving the ill edicts of blights, or insects, on 

 fruit-trees and culinary plants, superior to any 

 hitherto known or practised, and verified by ac- 

 tual ami comparative experiments ; the gold me- 

 dal, or thirty guineas. The accounts and certiji- 

 ciues to be delivered to the Society on or before 

 the first Tuesday in February, 1803. 



17. Comparative Tillace. Fprthemost 

 satisfactory set of experiments, made on not less 

 than eight acres of land, four of which to he) 

 trench-ploughed*, and four to be ploughed in the 

 usual manner, in order to ascertain in what cases 

 it may be adviseable to shorten the operations of 

 tillage, by adopting one trench-ploughing, for the 

 purpose of burying the weeds, instead of the me- 

 thod, now in common use, of ploughing and har T 

 rowing the land three or four times, and raking 

 the weeds together and burning them; the gold 

 medal , or forty guineas, It is required that every 

 operation and expense attending each mode of 

 culture be fully and accurately described, and 

 that proper certificates of the nature and Condi* 

 tion of the land on which the experiments are 

 made, together with a circumstantial account of 

 the appearance of the subsequent crops during 

 their grow t|i ; and also pf the quantity and weight 

 of the corn and straw under each mode of cul- 

 ture, or, in case of a green crop, the weight of 

 an average sixt en perches, be produced to the 

 Society pn or before the first Tuesday in Feb. 1803, 



IB.Comparative Culture of Wheat, 

 broad-cast, prilled, an" dibbled, for 

 the best set of experiments made on not less than 

 twelve acres, four of which to be sown broad- 

 cast, four drilled, and four dibbled, the two lat- 

 ter in eeui-distatlt flows, in order fully to ascer- 

 tain which is the mosl advantageous mode of cul- 

 tivating wheat ; the gold medal, or forty guineas. 

 It i-> requirecl that every operation and expense of 

 each mode ofculturebe fully described ; and that 

 proper certificates of the nature and condition of 

 the land Pn which the experiments are made, to 



* is a common practice ■tmong gardener^ when thev have a piece of very' foul land, toduj it two spits, ur about 

 eitfutc,, mclies deep, sfavveilio^ t& weeds (0 the boitoni. This jjfiej call treiichmg. 



