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Charles Monaghan and Denis Davis, improving 



ploughs, £5. 

 Eliz. Roberts and Mary Thornbald, bone lace, ^10. 

 Robert Baker, imitation Brussels lace, ^10. 



Premiums were ordered to be announced for wheat, 

 barley, hops, (Irish growth), cider, breaking up ground, 

 sowing land with wheat, sowing with barley, sowing 

 with turnips, for manuring the greatest quantity of land 

 with marl ; with lime, with limestone, gravel and sand ; 

 the largest quantity of wheat off one acre ; greatest 

 number of fruit trees raised in nurseries ; timber trees 

 in 'ditto ; and for planting the greatest quantity of 

 timber in groves or hedge rows. Watson was to print 

 in his Almanac the premiums to be offered for 174 1-2. 



Several members of the Society and a number of 

 brewers attended at the market house, Thomas street, 

 on the 2 1 st of December, to adjudicate on hops, when 

 twenty-two candidates presented themselves. The first 

 premium was awarded to Humphrey Jones of Mullin- 

 abro, co. Kilkenny ; and the second to Edward Bolton, 

 Brazil, co. Dublin. The next in order of merit were 

 Anthony Atkinson, King's co. ; Mr. Lee, Wexford ; 

 and Samuel Ealy, Ross, co. Wexford. Matthew 

 Yelverton of Portland, co. Tipperary, won ^10, for 

 having sowed the greatest quantity of land with 

 turnips. On the 19th of September 1741, £10 pre- 

 mium was won by Isaiah Yeates, Booterstown, co. 

 Dublin, for the best barrel of wheat produced at the 

 market house. To mark the importance attached to 

 such competitions, the Lord Mayor was present, and 

 three bakers, specially requested, attended and assisted 

 in the examination of the wheat. 2200 barrels of it 

 were sold on that day, and it was observed that all 

 the corn at the market looked better and cleaner than 



