Prizes for Essays and Reports, 



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VI, Hereditary Diseases and Defects. 



Twenty Sovereigns will be given for the best account of those 

 Diseases in the Horse and the Ox which either are or may 

 become hereditary. — As the Sheep and the Pig may probably 

 form the subject of a subsequent ^Drize, competitors are re- 

 quested to confine themselves in this Essay expressly to the 

 Horse and the Ox. 



VII. Any other Agricultural Subject. 



Twenty Sovereigns will be given for the best Essay on any other 

 Agricultural subject. 



VIIL Steam and other Motive Power. 



Thirty Sovereigns will be given for the best Essay on the rela- 

 tive advantages of Steam and other Motive Power applicable to Agri- 

 cultural purposes. 



1. The best mode of applying horse-power. 



2. The best mode of applying water-power. 



3. The best mode of applying fixed steam-power. 



4. The best mode of applying moveable steam-power. 



5. Purposes to which power is applicable, as thrashing, cha^- 



cutting, &c. 



The Essays must he sent to the Secretary, at 12, Hanover Square, London^ 

 on or before March 1, 1852, 



II.—PRIZE FOK 1854. 

 Guano. 



Fifty Sovereigns will be given for the best account of the Geo- 

 graphical Distribution of Guano ; with suggestions for the 

 discovery of any new source of supply, accompanied by 



specimens. 



The Essays competing for this Prize to be sent in on or before March 1, 1854. 



Contributors of Papers are requested to retain Copies of their Communications, 

 as the Society cannot be responsible for their return. 



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