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OFFERED BY THB 



ESSEX AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



FOR 1821. 



The Trustees of the Essex Agricultural Society, to encourage improv?"" 

 ments in the husbandry of the county, offer the following 



PREiMIUxMS, 



AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS. 



I. MJIJS'JIGEMEJVT OF A FJRM. 



For the best management of a farm, in its tillage, mowing 

 and pasturage : the quaitity of land appropriated to each — the 

 manner of making, increasing, preserving and applying manure — 

 the respective crops and products — and the management of the 

 iive stock — to he detailed ; . . Thirty Dollars. 



For the second best, . . Twenty Dollars,. 



II. GBEEJST CROPS FOR COWS. 



For the best experiment with any kinds of green crops^ 

 (turnips and cabbages excepted, which hurt the flavour of milk) 

 by which the same cows, not fewer than four, shall be kept in 

 milk, with the least diminution of the quantity yielded while 

 feeding in their common pastures at midsummer, until the first 

 of October ; the cows to be full fed with such green crops, ia 

 addition to their common pasturage : Thirty Dollars. 



For the second best, . . . Twenty Dollars. 



0:^ To render this experiment satisfactory, the milk yielded 

 4t midsummer (June 21st) must be weighed j and afterwards 



