Prizes for Essays and Reports. xi 



6. On Liquid Manure. 



Ten Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 

 for the best Account of Results obtained in the application of Liquid 

 Manures, as artificially obtained by composition, or as occurring in their 

 ordinary and natural state. 



Competitors will be required to attend to the following points, in the 

 case of each of these classes of liquid manure : — 



Artificial Liquid Manure. 



1 . The nature of the substances either dissolved or suspended in liquid 



manures artificially composed. 



2. The soils to which they are best adapted ; and whether to pasture or 



arable land. 



3. The quantity, mode, and season of their application. 



Natural Liquid Manure. 



1. The nature of those naturally combined ; as the urine of cattle and 



of man, the drainings of stables and farm-yards, &c- 



2. Their mode of treatment and preservation. 



3. Their application both to pasture and arable land ; the soils and 



crops to which they are best adapted ; their chemical properties ; 

 and the probable causes of their success or failure ; together with 

 observations on the quantity to be employed on clays and turnip- 

 lands, 



7. Management of Farm-yard Manure. 



Fifteen Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 

 for the best Account of the Mode of Management and Application of 

 Farm-yard Manure. 



Competitors will be required to state — 



1 . The season when made. 



2. The materials of which it is composed. 



3. The crops for which it is intended. 



4. The period of the year when applied. 



5. The mode of applying it. 



8. On Artificial Manures. 



Fifteen Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 

 for the best Account of Artificial Mineral and Vegetable Manures, and 

 of the simplest and most effective mode by which their adulteration with 

 spurious substances may be at once detected. 



The following information will be required in the case of each of these 

 classes of artificial manure : — 



Mineral Manures. 



1. The different inorganic or mineral substances which have been 

 recommended and used as portable manures ; distinguishing the 

 simple from the compound. 



