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THE MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING AGRICULTURE, 



Offers the following premiums for Experiments with Manures, and 

 competitors for the preceding can also compete for this, with the 

 same experiments : — 



1st premium, $100 ; 2d do., $100 ; 3d do., $100. 



A simular report of all the above items, except the nature of 

 the soil, will be required in 1863, and in 1864, when the premiums 

 will be awarded. No manure is to be applied to the second and 

 third crop. 



The above premiums are open to competitors throughout the 

 Commonwealth. Competitors for premiums offered by other Agri- 

 cultural Societies are invited also to compete for the above, the 

 same experiments serving for both, bj fihng a duplicate statement 

 with the Secretary of this Society. 



In awarding the premiums, all other things being equal, prefer- 

 ence will be given to those which are tried on the largest space of 

 land, and also where the competitor weighs the whole crop instead 

 of an average rod. Notice of an intention to compete must be 

 given to the Secretary on or before the first day of January, 1863, 

 with the statement required in the terras of the premium. 



This offer of premiums for experiments on the application of 

 manures is distinct from those on the same subject offered by the 

 same Society, January 13th, 1860, and February 18th, 1861, and 

 requires a different series of experiments. 



P. C. Brooks, Jr., Secretary. 



Boston, January 14, 1862. 



EXPERIMENTS IN SUBSOIL PLOWING. 



For the best experiment, on not less than one acre of land, of 

 the effect of subsoil plowing, to be determined by the difference 

 in the value of crops, raised on equal portions of equally manured 

 land, of like quality, one half of which having been subsoil plowed, 

 the other half plowed in the usual manner, — statements of the 

 depth of plowing, in each instance, together with all the partic- 

 ulars of culture, required, $8 ; second best, $6. 



COMPARATIVE VALUE OF CROPS AS FOOD FOR 



CATTLE. 



For the best experiment upon a stock of cattle, not less than 

 four in number, to ascertain the relative value of the different 

 kinds of fodder used, with a statement in detail of the quantity 

 and value of the same, as compared with English hay, the ex- 

 periment to be made in the three winter months, $15 ; second 

 best, $10. 



