Prizes for Essays and Reports, 



XI 



II. PRIZES OFFERED FOR 1850. 



All Prizes of the Royal Agricultural Society of England are open 

 to general competition. 



*£* Competitors will be expected to consider and discuss the heads enumerated. 



I. Farming of Lincolnshire. 



Fifty Sovereigns will be given for the best Report on the Farming 

 of Lincolnshire. 



1. Character of the soils of the county, especially of its marsh and 



fen lands. 



2. The peculiarities, whether advantageous or defective, in its 



agricultural management. 



3. The drainage of the county in a general view and the improve- 



ments which may yet be effected therein, especially by effect- 

 ing natural instead of artificial drainage. 



4. The management of the farm-yard, with the advantages and 



disadvantages of putting up the ricks at one central homestead. 



5. The suitability or otherwise of the present long-woolled breed of 



sheep to the ranges of light turnip land in the county. 



6. The desirableness or otherwise of increasing the proportion of 



Swedes in the turnip crop for spring consumption. 



7. The grounds of the present practice in consuming the straw with 



oil-cake given to beasts on light arable farms. 



8. The comparative merits of rape and turnips on peaty land, and 



the best mode of growing and feeding off rape. 



9. The condition of the labourer and the improvement required 



therein, by bringing his dwelling nearer to his place of labour. 



II. Farming of Somersetshire. 



Fifty' Sovereigns will be given for the best Report on the Farming 

 of Somersetshire. 



1. The soils of the county. - 



2. The peculiarities, advantageous or otherwise, in its farm 



management. 



3. The general drainage of the Bridgewater and other levels, and 



the improvement yet required in the outfalls. 



4. The degree to which the cultivation is injured by small inclo- 



