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For the best merino ram, - - - eight dollars. 



For the second best do. _ - . ^^e dollars. 



For the best lot of merino ewes not less than eight in num- 

 ber, ten dollars. 

 For the second best do. - . - eight dollars. 



In offering the foregoing list of premiums, amounting in the 

 whole to more than six hundred dollars., to be paid in 1824, the 

 Committee have had special regard to the present state of 

 Agriculture in the County of Essex; and have endeavoured to 

 select such subjects, as would be most interesting and useful 

 to our farmers generally. They have not proposed premiums 

 for the greatest quantities of any kinds of crops ; believing that 

 the funds of the Society, for the present, can be better applied 

 than in such premiums. And that the cultivation of entire 

 farms is a much worthier subject of premiums, than that of 

 small parcels or single acres of land. For it too frequently 

 happens, in cherishing the favourite acre, the remainder suf- 

 fers through negleot and want of nourishment. 



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 meritorious. 



For further illustration of the subjects of the foregoing pre- 

 miums, the Committee would refer to the explanatory remarks 

 annexed to them in their pamphlet published the last year. 



We have proposed many and liberal premiums, with the 

 hope of awakening the attention of the Farmers of Essex to 

 their best interests ; and of inducing them to come forward in 

 a cause so interesting to themselves and their Country. 

 By order of the Board of Trustees, 



TIMOTHY PICKERING, 

 ICHABOD TUCKER, 

 JOHN W. PROCTOR, 



Committee. 



