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THE 



SOUTHERN 



PLANTER. 



. suited to the climate of Virginia, to be not 

 less than one hundred pages, . . 3.25 



72. Best treatise on the culture and 

 management of Brown Corn, . . $10 

 Remarks on, and Special Rules for, Branch II. 



ESSAYS AND OTHER WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS. 



Essays and other written articles on practical 

 subjects, must be founded mainly, and on scien- 

 tific subjects, at least partly, on the writer's 

 practical experience and personal observation 

 or investigation ; though portions of each may 

 rest on other authorities, to be stated particu- 

 larly or generally, as required by the case. 



The award of superiority to any one writing 

 over others on the same subject, will be made in 

 reference to its probable greater utility to ag- 

 ricultural improvement or profit, as well as 

 to the ability with which the subject is treated. 



In matter designed to instruct or to guide 

 practical labors, clearness and fullness of de- 

 tails will be deemed a high claim to merit — and 

 next conciseness. Nothing necessary for in- 

 struction should be omitted, and nothing inclu- 

 ded that can be omitted without injury to the 

 value of the instruction. 



Written Communications to the Executive 

 Committee may be sent in at any time — the ear- 

 lier, the better — as they will at once be referred 

 to the Committee on Essays, who will thus be 

 enabled to scrutinize, and the more correctly to 

 estimate by comparison, the relative merits of 

 the different Essays submitted for their exami- 

 nation. 



It is required that all written communications 

 to the Society, received at any previous time 

 and published by the order of Executive Com- 

 mittee, and which'have not been duly considered, 

 and denied premiums by the judges, shall be 

 still held and considered as claiming, and in 

 competition with any more recent writings for 

 premiums offered, and for which any such wri- 

 tings may be suitable, and further, even the 

 previously published writings, which had been 

 duly considered by the judges at the preceding 

 Fair, and to which premiums were denied, shall 

 still be held under review and consideration, by 

 the judges for the next year's premiums, not to 

 again be placed in competition, but for the pur- 

 pose of being compared as to degrees of merit 

 with the later writings then under consideration 

 and adjudication for premiums. 



When a premium has been awarded at a pre- 

 vious time to an essay, any other and later es- 

 say, or written communication on that subject, 

 to obtain a premium, must be either deemed to 

 have important additional value compared to 

 the former one so honored, or otherwise be very 

 different in matter, or manner of treatment, 

 as well as of a sufficiently high order of 

 merit. 



All written communications to which may be 

 awarded premiums, will be published in the 

 Transactions of the Society. And any others 

 offered to compete for premiums, and not ob- 

 taining that honor, will be published in like 



manner, if deemed worthy by the Executive 

 Committee. 



JUDGES. 

 Dr. Henry Curtis, Hanover ; 

 Franklin Minor, Albemarle ; 

 Wm. M. Harrison, Amelia ; 

 J. Ravenscroft Jones, Brunswick ; 

 Robert T. Hueard, Buokingham. 



BRANCH III. 



BEST ENTIRE CROPS OF DIFFERENT FARMS. 



For the best product averaged in the acre, of 

 each of the following crops, raised in 1855, or 

 1856, on a bona fide farm, and for an entire crop 

 of the farm, according to its usual or designed 

 rotation, the annexed premiums : 



73. Best average product of Indian 

 corn, $50 00 



74. Best average product of wheat, 50 00 



75. Best average product of clover, 30 00 



76. Best average product of tobacco, 30 00 



77. Best average product of oats, 30 00 



78. Best average product of peas, 

 (Southern or corn-field, either 

 among corn or separate,) in grain 

 or in green manure, comparing 



each to each of like kind, 30 00 



79. Best average product of rye, 30 00 

 "80. Best average product of barley, 30 00 

 81. Best average product of timothy, 



herds-grass, or other hay of arti- 

 ficial grass or clover, 30 00 



And for entire crops, though not occupying 

 an entire shift of the farm, or making one full 

 member of the regular or designed rotation, 

 but yet being a subject of large culture on a 

 bona fide farm, a premium of $20 for the larg- 

 est average production of all the following 

 crops : 



82. Corn, not less than 75 bushels to the 

 acre, on low ground, and 60 bushels on 

 high land. 



83. Wheat, not less than 30 bushels to the 

 acre. 



84. Clover, not less than 2 tons of hay to the 

 acre. 



85. Tobaceo, not less than 1000 pounds. 



86. Oats. 



87. Rye. 



88. Barley. 



89. Southern peas, (as above stated). 



90. Cotton. 



91. Sweet potatoes. 



92. Irish potatoes. 



93. Turnips. 



94. Pumpkins. 



95. Buckwheat. 



96. Hemp. 



97. Flax. 



Remarks on and Special Rules for Branch III. 

 No crop will be deemed a subject of large 



