^oard of Agriculture, ' f§ 



gone through that disease, or its vicarious affection, the 

 cow-pock. They hkevvise strikingly manifest, that the 

 same person is equally incapable of taking the cow- pock a 

 second time, as of the small-pox, as hath been proved five 

 V-ears ago, and been subsequently confirmed ; and it has 

 been e!sev\here shown by many trials, that a person cannot 

 take the cow-pock subsequently to the small-pox. 



We regret that our limits prevent our giving a laro^e ex- 

 tract from the work. 



XIII. Proceedings of Learned Societies, 



BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Premiums offered by this Board. 



[Continued from our I.ist vol. p. 3S6.] 



I'AYIKG dvifn to Grass. — To the person \v}io sliall, in 

 the most satisfac'.ory manner, make the following experi- 

 ment in laying down land to grass, on a scale of not less 

 than three acres to each division, and report the result to 

 the board — the gold iiiedal. 



The land to be divided into three parts — one sown with 

 grass-seeds, among barley or oats, in the spring, on land 

 that was fallowed, or yielded turnips the preceding year ; 

 one sown with grass-seeds alone, in .July or August, or, at 

 the option of the candidate, with buck-wheat, having been 

 fallowed from the Michaelmas preceding; and the" third 

 sown with grass-seeds and wheat, early in September, having 

 been fallowed, or cropped with tares or turnips; the soil to 

 be of the same quality; the grass-seeds the same in each 

 division. The grass to be fed with sheep the first year. 

 Accounts, statirg the comparative expenses and success of 

 the three methods, verified by certificates, to be produced 

 to the board, on or before the first Tuesday in December, 

 18n5. — ^The same premium for I8O6. 



Seed JVtieui. — To the person who shall, by the n)ost 

 satisfactory comparative experiments, ascertain the proper 

 quantity of seed-wheat to be used per acre, in the common 

 or broad-cast husbandry; not less than one acre to be ap- 

 plied to each quantity of seed — the gold medal. 



Accounts, containing a particular descrijjtion of the soil, 

 and the prepaiation thereof, including the manuring, if 

 any; also the time of sowing; the various quantities of 

 seed employed; with the respective products, verified by 

 cerlificatesj to be produced to the board, on or before the 

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