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on poor land, in a method applicable to cot- 

 tagers — the gold medal. 



Accounts to be produced of the foil, arti- 

 cles cultivated, produce, ftuck kept, and 

 every material circumftance, rerified by cer- 

 tificates, on or before the firit Tuefday in 

 May, 180r. 



No. V. Ljtid for Cottggers. 

 The Board being informed, that the la- 

 bouring poor on the eftates of fevcral perfons 

 in Rutland and Lincolndiire, having land for 

 one or two cows, and a fufficiency of pota- 

 toes, did not apply in the la e fcarcity for any 

 parochial relief; and it appearing to be a 

 great national objeft to fpread fo beneficial a 

 fyftem, the board will give to the perfon who 

 ihall explain, in the moft fatisfadlory man- 

 ner, the befl: means of rendering this practice 

 a^- general through the kingdom as circurn- 

 ftances will admit — the gold medal. 



To be fent to the Board on or before the 

 firft Tuefday in November, 1806. 



No. VI. Culture of Plants. 

 To the perfon who ihall make the mol 

 fatisfadtory experiments, tending to the im- 

 provement of the culture of each of the fol- 

 lowing plants refpectively, viz. wheat, r)e, 

 barley, oats, peafe, beans, tares, buck-wheat, 

 turnips, cabbages, ruta-baga, potatoes, carrots, 

 parfnips, clover, lucern, fainfoln, chicory, 

 hemp, flax, hops— the filver medal. 



Accounts, verified by certihcates, to be 

 produced on or before the fecond Tuefday in 

 May, 1807. 



The fame premium for 1808 and 1809. 



No. VII. Soiling Cattle. 

 To the perfon who fhall, through the en- 

 tire funmier of 1806, keep the greateft num- 

 ber of cattle in ftalls, houfes, or confined 

 yards, and fed entirely in the foiling method 

 with green food^the gold medal. 



Certificates of the number of cattle, and 

 acres of food, and forts eaten, the quantity 

 of dung made, with other circumftances of 

 the experiment, to be produced on or before 

 the firit Tuefday in December, 1806. 



The fame premium for 1807, 1808, and 

 1809. 

 Ns. VIll. Comfarifon of Food to different 



yimmals. 

 To the perfon who Ihall, by experiments, 

 afcertain in the moft fatisfaclory manner, and 

 report to the Board, the comparative eti'edt 

 of certain articles of food when given to va- 

 rious kinds of live ftock — the gold medal. 



Grafles, natural and artificial, mown and 

 weighed; hay, cut chaff, corn or pulfe, oil- 

 cakes, turnips, cabbages, carrots, parfnips, 

 potatoes, &c. compared, in the produftion of 

 mutton, beef, butter, and cheefe ; artificial 

 grades, cabbages, roots, and cum or pulfe, 

 in the produftion of mutton, lycef, porl<, or 

 the fieih of poultry. It is required that the 

 food be weighed and regillered, and the ani- 

 mals alfo, with the increafcd weight noted 

 from every fort of food. 



M«M H1.Y Mac, Ng, 151. 



Accounts to be produced on Or before the 

 firft Tuefday in March, 1807. 

 The fame premium for 1808. 



No. IX. Wufie Land. 

 To the perfon who fhall improve, and 

 bring to the annual value of not lefs than 

 li)s. an acre, the greateft number of acres here- 

 tofore wafte, not lefs than fifty — the gold 

 medal. 



Accounts of the improvement, verified by 

 certificates, including the ftate of the land 

 before the experiment, and of the cultivation, 

 expences, and produce, to be laid before the 

 Board on or before the firft Tuefday in March 

 1807. 



Notice of the intended improvement to be 

 fent to the Board, and therefore fecrecy can« 

 not be required. 



The fame premium for 1808 and 1809. 



No. X. IVaftc Land. 

 To the perfon who fhall defcribe to the 

 Boird, in the moft fatisfuCtory manner, from 

 actual experiment of not lei's than one acre, 

 the moft profitable mode, without the ufe of 

 lime, of bringing heath-land (the fpontane- 

 ous growth of which is a long or (hort ling, 

 heath, or gorze) into cultiva;ion, and a ftate 

 of improvement — twenty guineas. 



Accounts of the full, previous to the im- 

 provement, and the means of erVedting it, 

 verified by certificat 'S, to be produced on or 

 before the firft Tuefday in March, 1807. 

 The fame premium for 1808. 

 No. XI, Draining, 

 To the perfon who fhall lay before the 

 board, the moft fatlsfaftory account of one of 

 Mr. Elkington's drainages, or any other new 

 mode equally ufeful — the filver medal. 



The foil, and ftate of the land before drain- 

 ing, the method and expenceof the improve- 

 ment, with a plan, and the refult of the 

 operation, to be produced on or before the fe- 

 cond Tuefday in December, 1806. 

 The fame premium for 18 J7. 



No. XIL Draining. 

 To the perfon who fhall execute, and re- 

 port to the Board in the moft fatisfactory 

 manner, the greateft drainage, in a method 

 f^e moft applicable to the ftate of the foil— • 

 the gold medal. 



The foil, and ftate of the land be'brc 

 draining, the method and expence of the im- 

 provement, with a plan, and the refult of 

 the operation, verified by certificates, to be 

 produced on or before the fecond Tuelday la 

 December, 1806. 



The fame premium in 1807. 



No. XIII, Embankment t. 

 To the perfon who fhall write, and pro- 

 duce to the Board, the moft fat'sfadtory ac- 

 count of fome confiderable embankment made 

 by himfelf, or on his property, or under hii 

 fapcrintendance i defcribing the foil taken in. 

 Its value before and after improvement ; the 

 ule to which it is applied , and any other in- 

 tereltinj; circuuillances j with a plan of the 

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