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ground improved by him, to be well entitled to the premium offered. This 

 premium belongs to the year 1S02, the Committee's report being dated 

 January 1803. 



17. £4, awarded 1802, to Donald iSIacintyre, Bongavag, Lorn, for 

 bringing moss land into tillage, and planting a crop of potatoes in the lazy-bed 

 way. 



18. £4, awarded in 1802, to Robert Moodie, Toward, Dunoon, for 

 bringing mossy ground into culture, and planting potatoes in the lazy-bed way. 



By the Society's rules, tenants planting potatoes in the 

 lazy-bed way were not strictly allowed to compete, but the 

 two last premiums were voted as a gratification for what 

 the parties had done in the way of improving the land. 



We print in Appendix a notice of the subsequent 

 reports — more than 130 in number — on the improvements 

 of land. 



Establishment of Local Societies. 



The General Meeting of 29th June 1792 — the Earl of 

 Aboyne, Vice-President, in the chair — took under con- 

 sideration, and approved of a report to the Directors by 

 Mr Macleod Bannatyne of Kaims, Convener of a Select 

 Committee, suggesting the propriety of a recommendation 

 to gentlemen of the country at large, and particularly such 

 as are members of this Society, to form local and corre- 

 sponding societies for the improvement of the particular 

 counties and districts within which they may be established, 

 as a measure likely to be of much advantage, both from the 

 separate exertions of such societies, and as the means of 

 promoting the views of this Institution, by the information 

 they would be able to offer regarding the objects suggested 

 for its consideration, and by the assistance to be obtained 

 in the execution of its plans within their different districts. 



This report was made in consequence of a remit from 

 the Directors' Meeting of 22nd March 1792, to Mr Banna- 

 tyne to prepare an article as to the proposed establishment 

 of local and corresponding societies in the country. 



In the Society's proceedings for February 1807, the 

 formation of the Dunblane Farming Society is noticed in 

 a report of a ploughing match sent by Mr Stirling of Keir. 



In 1809, the institution, by Sir Patrick Murray, Bart, 



