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1ESSai3S anb lacpoVtS.-AWAKDS, 1853. 



John Donaldson, of 4, North Cumming Street, Pentonville ; the Prize of Twenty 

 Sovereigns, for the best Account of the Cultivatiou and Management of 

 Underwood. 



FiNL.VY DcN, jun., Lecturer on Materia Medica, &c., in the Edinburgh Veterinary- 

 College ; the Prize of Twenty Sovereigns, for tlie best Account of those 

 Diseases in the Horse and the Ox which either are or may become Hereditary. 



Sydney Eversiied, of Albury, near Guildford, Surrey ; the Prize of Taventy 

 Sovereigns, for his Essay on the Improved Method of Cropping and Culti- 

 vating Light Land. 



John B. Spearing, of Moulsford, near Wallingford, Berkshire; the Prize of 

 Thirty Sovereigns, for the best Essay on the relative advantages of Steam 

 or other motive power applicable to Agricultural purposes. 



Thomas Rowlandson, of Brompton, Middlesex ; the Prize of Fifty Sovereigns, 

 for the best Report on the Farming of Herefordshire. 



Henry Evershed, of Albury, near Guildford, Surrey ; the Prize of Fipty Sove- 

 reigns, for the best Report on the Farming of Surrey. 



John Jephson Rowley, of Rowthorne, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire ; the Prize 

 of Fifty Sovereigns, for the best Report on the Farming of Derbyshire. 



Finlay Dun, jun., of 41, Heriot Row, Edinburgh; the Prize of Twenty 

 Sovereigns, for the best Account of those Diseases in the Sheep and the Pig 

 which either are or may become Hereditary. 



The Rev. Thomas Burroughes, of Gazeley, near Newmarket; the Prize of 

 Twenty Sovereigns, for his Essay on the Bean Turnip Fallow. 



SUBSTITUTE FOR GUANO. 



A Thousand Pounds and the Gold Medal of the Society will 

 be given for the discovery of a Manure equal in fertilising properties 

 to the Peruvian Guano, and of which an unlimited supply can be 

 furnished to the English Farmer at a rate not exceeding 61. per ton. — 

 A Committee having been appointed by the Council for deciding on the 

 conditions under which the competition for this prize should take place, 

 their Eeport will be found given at page iv of this Appendix. 



DISCOVERY OF GUANO. 

 Fifty Sovereigns will be given for the best Account of the Geo- 

 graphical Distribution of Guano ; with suggestions for the discovery 

 of any new source of supply, accompanied by specimens. The Essays 

 competing for this Prize are to be sent to the Secretary, at tlie liouse 

 of the Society, No. 12, Hanover Scpiare, London, on or before March 

 1, 1854. 



These, and all other Prizes offered by tbe Eoyal Agricultural Society of 

 England, are open to general competition. 



