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PRIZES FOR 1852 and 1854. 



All Prizes of the Royal Agricultural Society of England are o'pen 

 to general competition. 



Competitors loill he expected to consider and discuss the heads 

 enumerated. 



I.— PRIZES FOR 1852. 



I. Farming of Cumberland. 



Fifty Sovereigns will be given for the best Report on the Farming 

 of the county of Cumberland. 



1. Description of strata and soils of the county. 



2. Peculiarities of climate as they affect crops. 



3. Effect of elevation on the farming of the county. 



4. Description of the ancient and of the improved system of 



farming. 



5. Extent to which draining has been practised and is still required. 



6. Whether hill-side irrigation has been tried, and to what extent 



it would be applicable? 



7. Improvements made since the Report of J. Bailey and G. 



Culley in 1805, and to what extent still required ? 



II. Farming of Herefordshire. 



Fifty Sovereigns will be given for the best Report on the Farming 

 of Herefordshire. 



1. The character of the soils and subsoils of the county. 



2. The use of lime as manure, to what soils (if any) it is confined, 



and whether its employment is at all diminished by ^high 

 farming. 



3. Manufacture of perry. 



4. Effect of soil on the growth of timber-trees. 



