PREMIUMS 



OFFERED BY THE 



ESSEX AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



IN 



The Committee of the Trustees appointed to propose objects 

 for premiums, adverting to the original design of the institution, 

 — the improvement of the general husbandry of the county — 

 have thought it advisable, at this time, to depart materially 

 from what seems to have been a leading principle, in all the 

 Agricultural Societies of the country — that of offering premiums 

 chiefly for certain specific articles of husbandry, instead of the 

 combined improvements of entire farms. 



Since the formation of the Essex Society, specific premiums 

 have produced valuable effects ; by demonstrating, that with 

 high manuring, and good culture, some former usual crops may 

 be doubled, trebled, and even quadrupled. But the important 

 question is — not what small lots in or near market towns, and 

 abundantly supplied with manures, may be made to yield ; but 

 how the productive powers oi^ farms can be essentially increas- 

 ed : and this can be effected only by a better management in all 

 articles of husbandry. With this in view, the Committee pro- 

 pose to extend the encouragement heretofore given for general 

 improvements ; and offer the following premiums. 



1. MANAGEMENT OF A FARM. 



For the management of a farm, in its tillage, mowing, or- 

 charding and pasturage : the quantity of land appropriated to 

 each — their cultivation— the means and the manner of makings 

 increasing, preserving and applying manures — their quantities — 



