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CLASS !. 

 K E P R T S. 



Section 1.— THE SCIENCE AND PEACTICE OE 



AGKICULTUKE. 



FOR APPKOVED KEPOliTS. 



1. Ou the Agriculture of the County of Dumbarton — Twenty 

 Sovereigns. To be lodged by 1st November 1884. 



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

 Management observed in the County, and of the progress which Agri- 

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



2. On the Agriculture of the County of Eenfrew — Twenty- 

 live Sovereigns. To be lodged by 1st November 1885. 



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

 Management observed in the County, and of the progress which Agri- 

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



3. On the Agriculture of the County of Selkirk — Twenty-five 

 Sovereigns. To be lodged by 1st November 1885. 



The Pieport should embrace full details of the diff'erent systems of Farm 

 Management observed in the County, and of the progress whicli Agri- 

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



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

 volatile and soluble ingredients in farm-yard manure — Twenty 

 Sovereigns. To be lodged by 1st November in any year. 



The Kejiort must detail the treatment adopted to fix and retain these in- 

 gredients — the materials used for that purpose — and the quantity and 

 cost thereof — comparative analyses of the manure with and without 

 the treatment, and also a statement of the crops grown with manure 

 and without such treatment, must be given by the Reporter. The 

 experiments to have extended over at least two years and crops. 



5. On the results of experiments for ascertaining the com- 

 parative value of farm-ynrd manure obtained from cattle fed 

 upon different varieties of food, by the application of such 

 manures to farm crops — Twenty Sovereigns. To be lodged by 

 1st November in any year. 



The Report nnist state the eifects ])ro(hu'ed on two successive crojts by tke 

 aitplicatiuh of manure o})tained from cattle fed on different sorts of 

 food, such as turnips and straw alone ; nnd turnips and straw, with 

 an addition of oil-eake, linseed, bean-meal, grain t>r other substances. 

 The animals should l)e as nearly as possible of the same age, weight, 

 condition, and maturity, and each lot sliould receive doily the same 

 t|uantity of litter : and except as to the difference of food, they must 

 be treated alike. 



