Prizes for Essays and Reports. 



VIII. COMPARATIVE COST OF CATTLE FOOD AND MANURE. 



Twenty Sovereigns will be given for the best Keport on the 

 Comparative Cost of bringing Land into high condition by 

 the purchase of Cattle Food, or the purchase of Manure. 



Whatever experience is described in illustration of this subject must be 

 accompanied by full details of price and quantity, both of the 

 manures employed and the crops produced on the one hand, and on 

 the other of the cattle food purchased and consumed, the meat and 

 manure produced, and the field produce obtained by the application 

 of the latter. 



IX. ANY OTHER AGRICULTURAL SUBJECT. 



Ten Sovereigns will be given for the best Essay on any other 

 agricultural subject. 



lleports or Essays competing for the Prizes must be sent to the Secre- 

 tary of the Society, at 12, Hanover Square, London, on or hefor 

 March 1, 1859. Contributors oj Papers are requested to retain Copie 

 of their Communications, as the Society cannot be responsible for their 

 return. 



PiULES, &C. 



