PREMIUMS 



PROPOSED BY 

 THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 



OF 



PHILADELPHIA 



FOR THE YEAR 1806. 



To be conthiued till any measure^ experiment^ or practice, 

 nozv proposed^ and commenced in this or the succeeding 

 year^ be brought to siifficient perfection and proof. 



1. Ascertaining the component parts of arable land. 



To the person who shall produce the most satisfactory set 

 of experiments, to ascertain th^ due proportion of the several 

 component parts of arable land, in one or more of the old coun- 

 ties of this state, by an accurate analjsis thereof. A like analysis 

 in detail must also be made of the poorest, medium, and 

 richest soils, in the same county or counties. By a due ad- 

 mixture of these soils, or substances within the reach of com- 

 mon farmers, they are by these experiments, to be enabled 

 to improve, by good tillage, and a course of applicable crops, 

 the poorest or most worn land, with the materials found on 

 their ow^n farms, or those of their neighbours respectively. — 

 Lime, or lime stone, is excluded, its qualities and effects be- 



