Prizes at Liverpool Meetiiifj. 



XXI 



Seed- Wheat. 



I. Thirty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given to 

 the Exhibitor at the Liverpool Meeting of the best 14 bushels of White 

 Wheat, of the harvest of 1840, and grown by himself. 



II. Thirty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 

 to the Exhibitor at the Liverpool Meeting of the best 14 bushels of Red 

 Wheat, of the harvest of 1840, and grown by himself. 



[12 bushels of the wheat will be sealed up by the judges, and one of 

 the remaining bushels of each variety will be exhibited as a sample 

 to the public. At the public Meeting in December, 1842, the 

 prizes will be awarded.] 

 The three best samples of both red and white wheat, without distinguish- 

 ing between the three, will be selected by judges appointed at the Liver- 

 pool Meeting, and will be sown, under the direction of the Society, in the 

 autumn of 1841, by three farmers, who will make their report, upon 

 which the prize will be awarded. Ten sovereigns will be given at the 

 Liverpool Meeting to the Exhibitor of each of these three samples. 



GORSE-CRUSHING MaCHINE. 



Twenty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 

 for the cheapest and most effective Gorse-crushing Machine. 



1. The machine produced must be on a working scale, and at a cost 



that will be attainable by the occupiers of the smallest farms. 



2. It must be capable of reducing the material to a pulpy state for the 



mastication of ruminating animals, as cows and sheep. 



ESSAYS AND REPORTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. 



I — ^rfmuim«g for 1841. 



PRIZE ESSAYS. 



1. Varieties OF Wheat. 



Twenty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given for 

 the best Report on the Comparative Merits of different Varieties of 

 Wheat. 



Competitors will be required to state — 



1. Preparation and quantity of the seed; time and method of sowing; 



relation to preceding and following crops ; nature of the soil. 



2. Power to withstand severe winters. 



3. Time of flowering and of maturity. 



4. Tendency to degenerate, and liability to disease. 



