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Prizes for Liverpool Meeting. 



Any New Implement. 



For the Invention of any new Agricultural Implement, such sum as 

 the Society may think proper to award. 



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 General Meeting in December, 1842, the 

 prizes will be awarded.] 

 The three best samples of both red and white wheat, without disting:uish- 

 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 prizes 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. 



GENERAL REGULATIONS FOR EXHIBITION. 



I. No stock can be admitted for exhibition unless the necessary certi- 

 ficates, on the printed form prescribed, and signed by the exhibitor in 

 the manner directed, be delivered to the Secretary, or sent (post-paid) 

 so as to reach the Society's rooms. No. 5, Cavendish Square, on or be- 

 fore the 1st of July next. 



II. The name and residence of the breeder of all animals exhibited, 

 when known, should be stated. 



III. Non-members will be required to pay five shillings for every 

 head or lot of live stock before obtaining a ticket of permission to bring 

 their stock into the show-yard. 



IV. The same animal cannot be entered for two classes ; and in all 

 cases the age of animals is to be computed from the day of birth, except 

 in the case of horses, when the year only will be required. 



