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EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE. 



worthy of imitation.* Every possible effort is made to secure an 

 impartial decision among the competitors j for besides that they 

 are not suffered by their presence to influence the examiners, the 

 examiners themselves are selected from among persons who are 

 as far as possible disinterested, and not likely to be influenced. 

 They are chosen, likewise, with a special reference, in their charac 

 ters and qualifications, to the nature of the subjects submitted ; 



* The terms on which the premiums for seed wheat are to be awarded are 

 well worth the observation of other agricultural societies, and I therefore subjoin 

 them. 



&quot;SEED WHEAT. 



&quot; I. Thirty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given to the 

 Exhibitor at the Meeting at Derby of the best 14 bushels of White Wheat, of the 

 harvest of 1842, and grown by himself. 



&quot;II. Thirty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given to the 

 Exhibitor at the Meeting at Derby of the best 14 bushels of Red Wheat, of the 

 harvest of 1842, and grown by himself. 



&quot; III. Twenty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given to the 

 Exhibitor at the Meeting at Derby of the best 14 bushels of Spring Wheat, of the 

 harvest of 1842, and grown by himself. 



&quot; Competitors are requested to send with their Wheat, specimens, fairly taken, 

 of the same in the ear, with the whole of the Straw, in a bundle not less than 

 one foot in diameter, and with the roots attached. 



&quot; [12 bushels of the Wheat will be sealed up by the Stewards, and one of the 

 remaining bushels of each variety will be exhibited as a sample to the public ; 

 the other being kept for comparison with the produce of the next year. At 

 the General Meeting, in December, 1844, the Prizes will be awarded.] 

 &quot; The two best samples of each of these three classes of Wheat, without at that tune 

 distinguishing, in any of fche cases, between the comparative merits of either 

 sample, will be selected by the Judges, appointed for the meeting at Derby ; 

 and will be sown, under the direction of the Society, (the Winter Wheats in 

 the autumn of 1843, and the Spring Wheat not earlier than the 1st of March, 

 1844,) by four farmers, who will make their report, upon which the prizes will 

 be awarded, provided there be sufficient merit in any of the samples. Ten 

 Sovereigns will be given at the Meeting at Derby to each Exhibiter whose 

 wheat has been selected for trial. 



&quot; %* JYo variety of wheat which has been selected for trial at any previous show 

 shall be qualified to compete.&quot; 



The following are the instructions to the Judges on other subjects : 



&quot; As the object of the Society in giving the prizes for neat cattle, sheep, and 

 pigs, is to promote improvement in breeding stock, the Judges, in making their 

 award, are instructed not to take into their consideration the present value to the 

 butcher of animals exhibited, but to decide according to their relative merits for 

 the purpose of breeding.&quot; 



&quot; In the Class for horses, the Judges, in awarding the prizes, are instructed, in 

 addition to symmetry, to take activity and strength into their consideration.&quot; 



