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IX. SUMAC. 



The premium for this article is continued of course, as the 

 claim is to be presented the en?uing autumn. 



GENERAL REMARK. 



The Committee repeat — and desire it may be remembered-^ 

 that premiums claimed are not to be awarded, unless the sub- 

 jects of the. claims are decidedly meritoiSous. That is, the re- 

 spective experiments must be so conJncted as to exhibit results 

 worthy of encouragement and imitation — or decisive of a ques- 

 tion of which the sglution is sought. 



Where a premium has heretofore been awarded to any per- 

 ion, he is not to receive another for the same object. And 

 where any plough has obtained a premium, another is not to be 

 awarded for the same plough, nor for one of the same mould 

 Some important improvement can alone justify an appropriation 

 ©f the Society's funds, in cases of this nature. 



To allow time for enterprising farmers to make preparations 

 for becoming competitors for the premiums now offered, the 

 Committee are of opinion that there should be no public exhi- 

 bition in the present year. The disposable funds of the Society 

 will thereby be increased, to reward successful candidates for 

 premiums the year following. But whether there shall, or shall 

 not, be a public exhibition in the present year, the Society, at 

 their approaching annual meeting, will determine. As, howev- 

 er, some claims were to be made in the present year, these may 

 be sent to the Secretary of the Society, to be laid before the 

 Trustees, for their decision thereon. 



The Committee propose no premiums for the greatest quanti- 

 ties of any kmd of crops. The experiments already made have 

 demonstrated what is practicable ; and if those known examples 

 of success are insufficient to stimulate general exertions, the usual 

 premiums must prove ineffectual. 



Essex not being a county for grazing and fattening cattle muck 

 beyond the farmers own wants, this article also is discontinued 

 in the list of premiums. 



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