Prizes for the Meetlivj at Derby. xxxv 



Extra Stock, Roots, and Seeds. 



For Extra Stock of any kind, not shown for any of 

 the above Prizes, and for Roots, Seeds, &c., 

 Prizes may be awarded and apportioned, by the 

 Committee and Judges, to an amount not ex- 

 ceeding in the whole Fifty Sovereigns. 



Any New Implement. 



For the Invention of any new Agricultural Implement, such sum as 

 the Society may think proper to award. 



Seed-Wheat. 



I. Thirty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given to 

 the Exhibitor, at the Meeting at Derby, of the best 14 bushels of White 

 Wheat, of the harvest of 1842, and grown by himself. 



II. Thirty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 

 to the Exhibitor, at the Meeting at Derby, of the best 14 bushels of Red 

 Wheat, of the harvest of 1842, and grown by himself. 



III. Twenty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be 

 given to the Exhibitor, at the Meeting at Derby, of the best 14 bushels 

 of Spring Wheat, of the harve-st of 1842, and grown by himself. 



Coinpetitors are requested to send with their wheat, specimens, fairly 

 taken, of the same in the ear, with the whole of the straw, in a iDundle 

 not less than one foot in diameter, and with the roots attached. 



[12 bushels of the wheat will he sealed up by the judges, and one of 

 the remaining bushels of each variety will be exhibited as a sample 

 to the public; the other being kept for comparison with the pro- 

 duce of the next year. At the General Meeting in December, 1 844, 

 the prizes will be awarded.] 



The two best samples of each of these three classes of wheat, without at that 

 time distinguishing, in any of the 'cases, between the comparative merits of 

 either sample, will be selected by the judges appointed for the Meeting at 

 Derby ; and will be sown, under the direction of the Society (the winter 

 wheats in the autumn of 1843, and the spring wheat not earlier than the 

 1st of March, in 1844) by four farmers; who will make their report, upon 

 which the prizes will be awarded, provided there be sufficient merit in any 

 of the samples. Ten Sovereigns will be given at the Meeting at Derby to 

 each Exhibitor whose Wheat has been selected for trial. 



*^* No variety of Wheat which has been selected for trial at any previous 

 show shall be qualified to compete. 



