$65 Academy of Sciences at Turin, &c. 



As fmuggling is become very common in the Banda 

 iflands, and the company are thereby defrauded of great 

 quantities of fpices, a fevere law fhould be enacted againft 

 tliofe who purchafe them, and the felling of them be made 

 punifliable by the forfeiture of all the property of the delin- 

 quents. 



LXI. Proceedings of Learned and other Societies, 



ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AT TURIN. 



HIS Society has propofed the following queftions as 

 the fubjedt of two prizes, to be adjudged on the 23d of Sep- 

 tember. 



1. To point out what are the different vices contracted by 

 wine cafks ; the modifications which wines experience by 

 vitiated cades; and the means of remedving both. 



ad, To determine the phyfical and political caufes of the 

 decay of the woods and forefts of everv kind in the fix fub- 

 alpine departments; 'he means of preventing it; and thofe 

 of increafing the cultivation of timber, efpecially on the moun- 

 tainous countries. 



BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



On the 9th of June the Board refolved that a praemium of 

 the gold medal be offered to each of the five perfons who (hall, 

 in the mod fatisfactory manner, prove, by experiment, the 

 practicability of cottagers being enabled to keep one or two 

 milch cows on the produce of land cultivated with the fpade 

 and hoe only, and who (hall fend to the Board, on or before 

 tho firft. of January 1803, the bed accounts of fuch experi- 

 ments ; detailing, 



1. The expenfe of erecting the cottage, {bed, and any 

 other building thought neceflary. 



2. The expenfe of providing the ftock and tools neceflary. 



3. The extent of land, and nature of the foil, occupied. 



4. The expenfe of digging and fencing the land. 



5. The rent, taxes, &c. paid for the lame by the cottager. 



6. The courfe of cropping that has been adopted. 



7. The quantity and value of each of the different crops. 



8. How the cottager and his family are maintained, and 

 how they manage to cultivate the ground, and to harveft 

 the different crops. 



9. How the cow is maintained during the year, and what 

 proiit is derived from it. 



10. What 



