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Prizes for Essays and Reports. 



III. FAHMING OF DORSETSHIRE. 



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

 of Dorsetshire. 



1. Geological divisions. 



.2. Agricultural divisions of soil. 



3. Usual method of treating the different soils. 



4. Best method of treating them. 



5. Depth and mode of draining which has been found to answer 



best on the different soils. 



6. Injury inflicted by brooks and rivers, with description of 



remedies which have been or might be applied. 



7. Breeds of sheep used in the county. 



8. Artificial manures and food purchased. 



9. Peculiarities of climate. 



10. Extent to which downs have been or require to be broken up. 



1 1 . General improvements which have been effected since Report 



of W. Stevenson, in 1815. 



12. Improvements still required. 



lY. TRUNK DRAINAGE. 



Fifty Sovereigns will be given for the best Account of Trunk 

 or Arterial Drainage. 



1. Effect of rivers and brooks in benefiting contiguous grass-land 



by occasional winter flooding, and injuring it by too long 

 protraction of flood. 



2. Injury from summer flooding. 



3. Injury by flooding to arable land. 



4. Injury by stoppage or prevention of under-drainage. 



5. Existing difficulties in the application of a remedy which arise 



from the claims of mills, navigations, &c. 



6. Best and cheapest modes of dealing with the aforesaid claims. 



7. Best mode of correcting existing evils, with due regard to 



preserving the requisite moisture of subsoil in existing mea- 

 dows and to irrigation. 



8. Actual state of some river or rivers to be described. 



9. Remedy applied to some river or brook to be described. 



