Prizes for Essays and Reports. 



IV. TILLAGE A SUBSTITUTE FOR MANURE. 



Twenty Sovereigns will be given for the best Essay on the extent 

 to which tillage operations act as a substitute for manure. 



V. MODIFICATIONS OF FOUR-COURSE STSTEM. 



Twenty Sovereigns will be given for the best Report on the 

 Modifications of the Four-Course Rotation which modern 

 improvements have rendered advisable. 



Competitors will be required to describe such deviations from the four- 

 course system as have come within tlieir ovai experience or observa- 

 tion, pointing out the causes of each change and the advantages 

 obtained thereby. Suggestions of new and untried rotations must 

 be carefidly distinguished from the results of past experience. 



VI. VARIETIES OF CEREALS FOR HIGH FARMING. 



Twenty Sovereigns will be given for the best Report on the 

 varieties of Wheat, Barley, and Oats most suitable for highly- 

 farmed Land. 



Varieties of cereals are frequently confined to very limited districts, and 

 even when they extend over a wider area are generally known by 

 mere local names. Candidates will therefore be expected to send 

 small samples, of six heads, of each of the varieties of cereals recom- 

 mended, to accompany their respective reports. Care must be taken 

 to tie the small samples together in one bundle, and attach to it a 

 motto paper corresponding to the one enclosed with the report. 



Vn. FAILURE OF TURNIP CROP. 



Twenty Sovereigns will be given for the best Report on the 

 causes of the increasing difficulties of Turnip Cultivation, and 

 the remedies. 



In many turnip-growing districts this crop is found to be less hardy than 

 heretofore, and more liable to the attacks of various diseases. Com- 

 petitors will be expected to discuss the question whether this is due 

 to the too frequent repetition of this crop, or to any differences in the 

 mode of cultivation or the kinds of manures employed, and to sup- 

 port their opinions as much as possible by facts in preference to 

 abstract reasoning. 



