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ion of the plough, the quality of the soil, the depth of the 

 furrows, and the quantities ploughed : and, in every opera- 

 lion, the time expended, and number and" sorts of hands em- 

 ployed in performing it ; with any other circumstances which 

 may more fully elucidate the subject. These experiments will 

 enable the essayist to determine what will be the best form 

 and constraction of yokes and bows, and what of ox-harness, 

 to enable oxen, with the best carriage of their bodies and 

 heads, the most ease, and quickest step, to draw the heaviest 

 loads, a description of each of which sort of gears, explained 

 •on mechanical principles, must be subjoined to the account 

 of experiments.^ 



XI. For the best method, within the power of common 

 farmers, of recovering old gullied fields to an hearty state, 

 and such uniformity, or evenness of surface, as will again 

 render them fit for tillage ; or where the gullies are so deep 

 and numerous as to render such recovery impracticable, for 

 the best method of improving them, by planting trees, or 

 otherwise, so as to yield the improver a reasonable profit 

 for his expences therein, founded on experiment — a gold 

 medal ; and for the next best — a silver medal. 



XII. For the best cheese, not less than five hundred pounds 

 Weight, made on one farm within the United States, and 

 which shall be produced to the society by the first day of 

 Januaiy, 1792 — a gold medalf — and for the next greatest 

 quantity, not less than two hundred and fift}- pounds weight, 

 of equal quality — a silver medal. 



XIII. The society believing that the culture of hemp on 

 some of the low rich lands in the neighbourhood of this cit}^, 



*The facts lately brought forward by Lord Somerville of England, are 

 decisive as to the great oeconomy of oxen for farm work : the experience 

 too of the farmers in New-England shews, that the expensive animal the 

 horse, is by no means so necessary as many suppose for agricultiu'al la- 

 bour- 1808. 



jThls premium was obtained by Mr. Mathewson of Rhode-Island. 



