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Mr. Meigs read from the same work the list of premiums offered 

 by the Highland Society for the year 1849, and subsequent years. 

 These seem worth attention : 



Deep tillage. — For approved report thereon — gold medal or ten 



sovereigns. 



Liquid Manure. — Do. do. 



Manures. — Fifty sovereigns j the report to be lodged by 1st No- 

 vember, 1849. 



Trifolium Hybridum, or Alsiche clover. — Report on — gold medal, 

 ten sovereigns. 



Clovers and gi'asses for two or three year's pasture. — Gold medal, 

 or ten sovereigns ; report to be lodged by 1st Nov. 1850. 



Comparative productiveness, &c. of different varieties of the Ce 

 real Grains. — the gold medal, or five sovereigns ; by 1st Nov. 1849. 



Improved "Varieties of Agricultural Plants. — Gold medal, or ten 

 sovereigns ; by 1st Nov. 1849. 



Flax. — Twenty sovereigns ; report by 1st Nov. 1849. 



Comparative value of different Plants as Food. — Several premiums 

 of gold medal and five sovereigns. 



Vegetable productions of India, China, America, &c. — For appro- 

 ved report on the hardy and useful herbaceous plants, including grains 

 and grasses of China, the islands of the Eastern Archipelago ; the 

 Himalaya country ; the Falkland Islands and South Sea Islands j Ca- 

 lifornia ; the high North Western Districts of America — gold medal, 

 or ten sovereigns; by 1st Nov. 1849. 



Tussac Grass. — The gold medal ; by 1st Nov. 1849. 



Feeding of Stock. — Twenty sovereigns ; by 1st Nov. 1849. 



Use of the Spade. — Premium one pound five shillings and under. 



The whole list of premiums in every department of farming indus- 

 try occupies some forty pages. 



Judge Van Wyck. — Some of Liebig's theories have been tried in 

 experimental farms, and been found to be wrong. They now rely in 

 Europe, in a great measure, on the manure of the barn yard ; nor is 



