4G PREMIUMS AWARDED BY THE SOCIETY IN 1867. 



sions, it is my desire to appoint some party in connection with each Club as 

 agent on commission to whom I could forward diagrams of farms for sale, 

 with general information, and thus privately be the means of, I trust, pointing 

 out a country the great natural advantages of which, both in a mineral 

 and agricultural sense, is destined, as it becomes more known, to attract 

 equal attention to Australia and New Zealand. 



" I am expecting the Finance Minister by this or next month's mail, and 

 shall be happy to forward information for the use of your Club, or those who 

 may have sons or friends who contemplate leaving England. 



"Any suggestion you make in furtherance of this object I shall feel great 

 pleasure in receiving. — I am, Sir, yours very truly, J. J. Pratt." 



MEETING OF DIRECTORS, 15th JANUARY 1868. 

 Mr Dudgeon of Cargen in the Chair. 

 The business had relation to the subjects to be brought forward at the 

 General Meeting of this date. 



PEEMIUMS AWARDED BY THE SOCIETY IN 1867. 



I— EEPORTS. 



1. L.30 to the Rev. John Gillespie, A.M., Mouswald Manse, Dumfriesshire, 



for a Report on the Agriculture of Dumfriesshire. 



2. L.20 to Christopher Young Michie, forester, Cullen House, Banffshire, for 



a Report on Larch Forests in Scotland. 



3. The Gold Medal or L.10 to Robert E. Brown, agent to Major Stapylton, 



Wass, Oswaldkirk, Yorkshire, for a Report on the Formation and 

 Management of Young; Plantations. 



4. The Gold Medal to James Purves, Lochend, Thurso, for a Report of the 



Reclamation of Waste Land on the farms of Lochend and Syster, 

 in the county of Caithness. 



5. The Gold Medal to Harry Shaw, Bogfern, Tarland, for a Report of Ex- 



periments on the Comparative Productiveness of Turnips in 1866. 



6. The Gold Medal or L.10 to Russell Swanwick, Whittington, Chesterfield, 



for a Report of Experiments on the Action of Different Top-dressings 

 on Wheat, Grass, and Cabbage in 1866. 



7. The Medium Gold Medal or L.5 to Robert Hutchison of Carlowrie, Kirk- 



liston, for a Report on Pruning the Rarer Conifera?. 



8. The Medium Gold Medal or L.5 to Christopher Young Michie, forester, 



Cullen House, for a Report on Trees not Liable to be Destroyed by 

 Rabbits. 



9. The Medium Gold Medal or L.5 to John Milne, Mains of Laithers, Turriff, 



for a Report of Experiments on the Comparative Productiveness of 

 Turnips in 1866. 



10. The Silver Medal to Ralph Carr, Hedgely, Alnwick, for a Report on the 



Silver Alder as a Nurse Plant to Oak. 



1 1. The Silver Medal to Robert Hutchison of Carlowrie, for a Report on 



Trees not Liable to be Destroyed by Rabbits. 



12. The Silver Medal to John Morrison, Coney Park Nursery, Stirling, for 



a Report on the Corsican Fir. 



13. The Silver Medal to William Gilchrist, Forester, Castlemilk, Glasgow, for 



a Report on the Formation and Management of Young Plantations. 



