xciv Report to the General Meeting. 



Society and compete for its premiums-, will lead to important 

 practical results in the well-working of the Society and the 

 prosecution of its objects. The deep interest especially which 

 the Society feels on the subject of improving the condition of the 

 agricultural labourer, as one of the chartered objects of their 

 incorporation, is one which daily increases with the difficulty of 

 knowing how to decide on the steps to be taken as tending most 

 securely to attain their great object; and they eagerly embrace 

 the adoption of any plan having this object in view, on the desira- 

 bleness of which no doubt can be entertained. An instance of 

 this desire on the part of the Council has just occurred in their 

 unanimous adoption of Mr. Burke's proposal, that a very cheap 

 publication, giving plain directions for the preparation of econo- 

 mical and nutritious food for labourers, should be compiled, with 

 the consent of the writers, from the numerous essays sent in to 

 compete for the prize offered by the Society on that subject, and 

 that Mr. Burke should also be requested to append to it such a 

 digest of Mr. Main's article on Cottage Gardening in the Journal 

 as may best adapt it for the use intended. 



Earl Spencer, Mr. Graburn, and Mr. Druce having reported 

 to the Society the results of their cultivation of the samples of 

 wheat selected for trial at the Cambridge Meeting, the Council 

 have unanimously resolved, that it is not expedient to adjudge 

 the prize to either of the samples in question, as it appears from 

 these reports that other wheats usually grown in the respective 

 neighbourhoods in which the trials took place have proved more 

 productive. 



The Council have decided on proposing the following subjects 

 for the Prize Essays of 1843, the conditions of which will be 

 appended on their publication in the Prize Sheet of the Society : — 



1. On Artificial Food for Cattle. 



2. On Natural Food for Cattle. 



3. On the Comparative Advantages of Horse and Ox Teams. 



4. On the Construction of Cottages. 



5. On the Drainage of Land. 



