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night would be the extent of the time required. If I am favoured with an answer 

 to this, I request it may be directed for me at the East India House, or at Laleham, 

 near Staines, Middlesex. 



I am. Sir, your most humble servant, 



John Cocgah. 



Laleham, February 3, 1806. 



Enclosed is the Certificate of Thomas Harrison, of Laleham, as to the quantity 

 and quality of the land. 



P. S. I beg leave to add, that in case the above mentioned quantity of land 

 should not entitle me to the first premium, I consider myself a candidate for the 

 second, which relates to cultivation, and not quantity. 



I Thomas Harrison, of the parish of Laleham, in the county of Middlesex, 

 farmer, do certify, that John Coggan, Esq. of the parish of Laleham, sowed twenty- 

 two and a half acres of spring wheat, part of which was sowed upon land lately 

 brought into tillage, and part upon land lately inclosed, and had been much ne- 

 glected. The above land was measured by me to ascertain the quantity, and 

 which measured twenty-two acres and a half statute measure. The wheat was 

 sown between the ist day of April and the 1st day of May, 1805. 



Given under my hand this 30ih day of January, 1806, 



Thomas Harrison,. 



IV. 



Spring Wheat. By Mr. Cahhrop. 



1 HE Board of Agriculture having received information from various districts, 

 of the benefit arising from the cultivation of spring wheat, and it appearing to the 

 Board that at the present period it may be particularly useful to promote that ob- 

 ject, have resolved to offer the following premiums : 



" To the person who shall, in the spring of 1805, cultivate the greatest number 

 of acres of spring wheat, not less than twenty, fifty guineas, or a piece of plate of 

 that value. 



" Accounts verified by certificates to be produced on or before the first 



