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English Agricultural Society. 



Class VIII. — Long-woolled Sheep, 

 Not qualified to compete for Class VI. 



1. To the owner of the best Shearling Ram . Thirty Sovereigns. 

 To the owner of the second-best ditto . . Ten sovereigns. 



2. To the owner of the best Ram of any other age Thirty Sovereigns. 



3. To the owner of the best pen of 5 Ewes with 



their Lambs Ten Sovereigns. 



4. To the owner of the best pen of 5 Shearling 



Ewes • Ten Sovereigns. 



N.B. — The Sheep exhibited for any of the above Prizes must not be shorn 

 before the 1st of May, nor after the 1st July, 1840. 



Class IX. — Pigs. 



1. To the owner of the best Boar . . . Ten Sovereigns. 



2. To the owner of the best Sow .... Five Sovereigns. 



3. To the owner of the best pen of 3 Pigs of the 



same litter, above 4 and under 9 months old. Ten Sovereigns. 



Class X. — Extra Stock, Implements, Roots, 

 AND Seeds. 



For Extra Stock of any kind, not shown for any of 

 the above Prizes, and for Implements, Roots, 

 Seeds, &c., Prizes will be awarded and ap- 

 portioned, by the Committee and Judges, to 

 the value, in the whole, of , . . . Fifty Sovereigns. 



SEED WHEAT. 



To the Exhibitor at the Cambridge Meeting of the 

 best 12 bushels of White Wheat, of the har- 

 vest of 1839, grown by himself . . . Fifty Sovereigns. 



To the Exhibitor at the Cambridge Meeting of the 

 best 12 bushels of Red Wheat, of the harvest 

 of 1839, grown by himself .... Fifty Sovereigns. 



Each of these 12 bushels will be sealed by the Judges; and a thirteenth 

 bushel of each of tho same varieties will be exhibited, as a sample, to 

 the public. 



N.B. — These Prizes will be awarded at the General Meeting in December, 

 1841. 



The two best samples, without distinguishing between the two, will be se- 

 lected by Judges appointed at the Cambridge Meeting, and will be sown in 

 the Autumn of 1840, by three farmers, under the direction of the English 

 Agricultural Society, who will make their Report, upon which the Prize 

 will be awarded. Ten Sovereigns will be given to the Exhibitor of the 

 one of these two samples who shall not obtain the Prize ; or, if from the 

 produce when sown neither of the two shall appear to deserve a Prize, Ten 

 Sovereigns will be given to the Exhibitors of each. 



