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No. 4. On the manufacture of Cider and Apple Sauc?e. 



No. 5. On the curl of leaf of the Peach tree. 



No. 6. On the culture of Wheat. 



No. 7. On the Moth or Apple Worm. 



No. 8. On the Curculio or Plum Weevil. 



No. 9. On the culture of Potatoes. 



No. 10. On the culture of Potatoes. 



No. 11. On the cultivation of Indian Corn. 



No. 12. On the Common Potato, its culture, disease, and remedies. 



No. 13. On the Potato Rot. 



It was a matter of no small difficulty with the Committee, to exam- 

 ine and decide upon the relative or intrinsic merits of such a number of 

 essays ; and the more so, where several of them were upon the same 

 subject. The greatest embarrassment lay in adopting a just and proper 

 rule of decision. If the Committee were to act upon the principle that 

 they were merely to decide which was relatively the best essay, on a given 

 subject, they would have had a rule of simple and easy application ; but 

 under puch a rule they might have awarded a premium to an essay 

 quite unworthy of it, simply because it Vas the best one submitted to 

 them. 



After much reflection, the Committee came to the conclusion that in 

 "jrder to justify them in awarding a premium, the essay entitled to it 

 would come essentially under one of the following mles : 



1st. It should contain facts, or establish a principle before unknown, 

 or not generally known ; or, at least, if it established no new principle, that 

 it should give facts or experiments explaining or illustrating those al- 

 ready known, or tending to establish what was before doubtful. 



2d. Or if it profess to establish no new fact or principle, nor give 

 any new illustration of what is already known, it should at least, em- 

 body and classify, in an unusually clear, concise and authentic manner, 

 whatever is known upon the subject of which it treats; it should avoid 

 all vague and uncertain theories and conjectures, and be well sustained 

 by established facts of general authority in the agricultural commu- 

 nity. 



Under these rules, which the Committee regard as the safest they 

 could adopt, they have, after careful examination, agreed to recoinmen(J 

 that premiums be awarded for the following essays : 



