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CLASS I. 



E E P E T S. 



Section 1.— THE SCIENCE AXD PRACTICE OE 



AGEICULTUEE. 



FOR APPROVED REPORTS. 



1. On the Agriculture of the Counties of Clackmannan and 

 Kinross — Twenty Sovereif^ns. To be lodged by 1st Xovember 

 1882. 



The Report should embrace fall details of the different systems of Farm 

 Management observed in the Counties, and of the progress ■svhich 

 Agriculture and other industries have made within the last 25 years. 



2. On the Agriculture of the County of Lanark — Forty Sove- 

 reigns. To be lodged by 1st November 1882. 



The Report should embrace full details of the different systems of Farm 

 Management observed in the County, and of the progress which 

 Agriculture and other industries have made within the last 25 years. 



3. On the Agriculture of the County of Stirling — Twenty 

 Sovereigns. To be lodged by 1st November 1882. 



Tlie Report should embrace full details of the different systems of Farm 

 Management observed in the County, and of the progress which 

 Ak'riculture and other industries have made within the last 25 vears. 



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4. On the Agriculture of the Counties of Elgin and Nairn — 

 Thirty Sovereigns to be lodged by 1st November 1882. 



The Report should embrace full detiiils of the different systems of Farm 

 Management observed in the Counties, and of the progress which 

 Agriculture and other industries have made within the last 25 years. 



5. On the results of experiments for fixing and retaining the 

 volatile and soluble ingredients in farm-yard nuxnure — Twenty 

 Sovereigns. To be lodged by 1st November 18S2. 



Tlie Report must detail the treatment adopted to fix and retain these 

 ingre<lients — the materials u^ed for that jturpone — aud the quantity 

 and cost thereof — conipanitive analyses of the manure with and with- 

 out the treatment, and al^o a stutement of the crops j.^wu with 

 manure with and without such treatment, must he given by the 

 Reporter. Tlie experiments to have extendetl over at lexst two years 

 and crops. 



