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Prizes for Essays and Reports. 



1. General management. 



2. Most profitable method of keeping sheep stock. 



3. Most profitable method of converting straw into dung. 



4. Eotation of crops (including spring-feed) which keeps the land 



most constantly under crop. 



VI. Beans and Peas. 



Ten Sovereigns will be given for the best Essay on the culti- 

 vation of Beans and Peas. 



1. Previous preparation of land by manure or otherwise. 



2. Varieties of beans and peas, whether sown in autumn or spring. 



3. Diseases and mode of prevention, if any. 



VII. Hereditary Diseases ane Defects. 



Twenty Sovereigns will be given for the best account of those 

 Diseases in the Sheep and the Pig, which either are or may 

 become hereditary. 



VIII. Any other Agsicultusae Susject. 



Twenty Sovereigns will be given for the best Essay on any other 

 Agricultural subject. 



The Essays must he sent to the Secretary, at 12, Hanover Square, London^ 

 on or before March 1, 1853, 



II.— PPIZE FOR 1854. 

 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 to be sent in on or before March- 1, 1854. 



Contributors of Papers are requested to retain Copies of their Communications, 

 as the Society cannot be responsible for their return. 



