2&4 Board of Agriculture. 



Adelphi, Dec. J, 1R09-. 

 Premiums by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts t 

 Manufactures, and Commerce. 

 The time of propofing and publishing the premiums to be 

 given by this Society for the enfuing year now approaching, 

 the patrons of the arts, and all ingenious men, are hereby 

 invited to fugged new objects, to which the Society may 

 extend its liberality. 



Communications are requefted to be made in writing, and 

 addreffed to the Society's fecretary, at their houfe in the 

 Adelphi, on or before the ift of February 1801. 



N. B. The 1 8th volume of the Tranfactions of this Society 

 is now in the prefs, and will fpeedily be publifhed. 



By order, CHARLES TAYLOR, Sec. 



BOA.BD OF AGRICULTURE. 



This Board has juft publifhed the following lift of pre- 

 miums : 



This Board having been required, by a committee of the 

 Houfe of Lords, ' to examine into, and report to their lord- 

 mips, the beft means of converting certain portions of grafs 

 land into tillage, without exhaufting the foil, and of return- 

 ing the fame to grafs, after a certain period, in an improved 

 ftate, or at lead without injury ;' and being defirous that their 

 information, on a fubjecl of fo grjeat importance, fliould be 

 complete, adapted to every fort of foil, and founded on th^ 

 moft ample experience, have come to the refolution of offer- 

 ing the following premiums for that purpofe, viz. 



To the perfon who (hall produce, on or before the firft day 

 of February i8or, the beft and moft Satisfactory effay on the 

 fubject before mentioned, diftinguifhing, refpeetively, what 

 part of the plan recommended, or of the details given, is the 

 refult of aftual experiment, accurate obfervation, or well 

 authenticated information, 200/. For the fecond beft, 100 L 

 For the third beft, 60/. For the fourth beft, 40/. 



And to fuch perfons who may communicate information, 

 •fcdnch, though ufeful, may be confidered of lefs importance, 

 (mailer rewards,, proportioned tothe opinion of the Board. 



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