Ixxvi Essays and Reports on Various Subjects. 



Competitors will be required to give — 



1. A description in detail of the mode employed in preparing the 



cheese in some district of established reputation for the produc- 

 tion of cheese. 



2. An inquiry, how far the excellence of the best cheeses arises from 



peculiarity of pasture, soil, and situation; or, how far from supe- 

 rior management. 



3. It is also desirable to investif^ate the elFects of the colouring matters 



which are employed in making some kinds of cheese. 



6. Rotations of Crops on Light Lands. 



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

 for the best Account of the Rotation of Crops suited for Light Lands. 

 Competitors will be required to keep in view — 



1. The succession of crops which combines the greatest number and 



productiveness of crops with the largest profit and most improving 

 condition of the soil. 



2. The greatest consumption of the produce by the Stock profitably 



kept on the land. 



7. Rotations of Crops on Heavy Lands. 



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

 the best Account of the Rotation of Crops suited for Heavy Lands. 



N.B. — The same conditions will apply to this prize as to the last ; but 

 particular stress is to be laid on bringing heavy lands more nearly 

 on an equality with light lands, than they at present are, in the 

 Maintenance of Stock. 



8. Curing of Butter. 



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

 an Account of the best Mode of Curing Butter for future consumption, 

 and for Preservation in foreign countries. 



Competitors will be required to attend to the following Conditions — 



1. The butter to be made from grass-fed cows, milked between the 20th 



of May and the 20th of June ; stating the exact period at which 

 it W9S manufactured ; and whether made from cream alone, or 

 from the whole milk and cream churned together. 



2. That two samples of the butter — of not less than 12 lbs. each — be 



packed in jars, and sent up to the Society on or before the 1st day 

 of July : stating the exact quantity of any salt, honey, or other 

 substance used in the curing : with a minute description of the 

 mode employed in effecting it. 



3. That each sample be cured with a different sort of salt — if any dif- 



ferent kinds can be procured — and not less than 6 lbs. of each be 

 sent up, separately, to the Society: distinguishing the particular 

 kinds which have been used. 



4. That the samples of salt will be duly analysed ; but those of the 



butter will be retained in the Society's rooms until the month of 

 December, when they v^'ill be opened and valued by two eminent 

 dairymen : the valuation of which to be paid to the makers. 



