APPENDIX (B), 



PKEMIUMS 



OFFERED BY 



THE HIGHLAND AND AGKICULTUEAL SOCIETY 

 OF SCOTLAND IN 1879. 



CONTENTS. 



General Notice, . . . . 



COXSTITITTION AND MaXAGEJIEXT, . 



Establishment, . . . . 



Committees, . . . . 



Agricultural Education, 



Veterinary Department, 



Forestry Department, 



Chemical Department, 



General Regulations for Competitors, 



CLASS I.— REPOKTS. 



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§ 1. The Science and Practice of Agriculture— For Approved 

 Reports on^ 



1. Agriculture of the Counties of Forfar and Kincardine, 



2. Agriculture of the Counties of Clackmannan and Kinross. 



3. Agriculture of Bute and Arran, . . . . 



4. Agriculture of the County of Sutherland, . . " 



5. Agricultui'e of the County of Lanark, 

 (5. Physiological Distinctions of the Scottish Peasantry, 



7. Supply of Labour during press of Agricultural "Work, 



8. Experiments for iixing the ingredients in Farm-yard Manure, 



9. Manures produced by different kinds of Feeding, . 



10. Manure made with and without Cover, 



11. Improved varieties of Agricultural Plants, 



12. Cultivation of Cabbage as a Field Crop, 



13. Insects which "prey upon Agi-icultural Plants, 



14. Vegetable Productions of India, China, and America, 

 15.' Adulteration of Agricultural Seeds, 



16. Grazing Cattle and Sheep together or separatel}', 



17. Best mode of housing Fattening Cattle, 

 18^ Ditler^nt descriptions, of Food for Stock, . 

 19. Different methods of Making and Curing Butter, . 

 20." Results of Feeding on quantity and quality of Butter and Cheese, 



21. Cheviot Breed of Sheep, ..... 



22. Breeding of Horses for the Eoad or Field, 



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