Essays and Reports. — Awards, 1851-r52. 



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RULES OF COMPETITION FOP. PRIZE ESSAYS. 



1. All information contained in Prize Essays shall be founded on experience 

 or observation, and not on simple reference to books or other sources. 



2. Drawings, specimens, or models, drawn or constructed to a stated scale, 

 shall accompany writings requirino- them. 



3. All competitors shall enclose their names and addresses in a sealed cover, 

 on which only their motto, and the subject of their Essay, and the number of 

 that subject in the Prize List of the Society, shall be written.* 



4. The President or Chairman of the Council for the time being, shall open 

 the cover on which the motto designating the Essay to w hich the Prize has 

 been awarded is written, and shall declare the name of the author. 



5. The Chairman of the Journal Committee shall alone be empowered to 

 open the motto-paper of any Essay not obtaining the Prize, that he may think 

 likely to be useful for the Society's objects ; with a view of consulting the 

 writer confidentially as to his willingness to place such Essay at the disposal 

 of the Journal Committee. 



6. The copyright of all Essays gaining prizes shall belong to the Society, 

 who shall accordingly have the power to publish the whole or any part of such 

 Essays ; and the other Essays will be returned on the application of the 

 writers ; but the Society do not make themselves responsible for their loss. 



7. The Society are not bound to award a prize unless they consider one of 

 the Essays deserving of it. 



8. In all reports of experiments the expenses shall be accurately detailed. 



9. The imperial weights and measures only are those by which calculations 

 are to be made. 



10. No prize shall be given for any Essay which has been already in print. 



11. Prizes may be taken in money or plate, at the option of the successful 

 candidate. 



12. All Essays must be addressed to the Secretary, at the house of the 

 Society. 



* Competitors are requested to write their motto on the enclosed paper on which 

 their names are Avritten, as well as on the outside of the envelope. 



lEssags antr mtports— awards, 180I-02. 



FiNLAY Dun, jun., Veterinary Surgeon, of Heriot Row, Edinburgh ; the Prize of Twenty Sove- 

 EEiGNS, for the best Essay on the Diseases of Farm Horses arising from Mismanagement. 



William Charles Sibbat.d, Veterinary Surgeon, of Biggleswade, Bedfordshire ; the Prize of 

 Twenty Soveueigns, for the best Essay on the Diseases after Parturition in Cows aad Sheep, 

 with their Remedies. 



Edward J. Hemming, of Lismore. county of Waterford, Ireland ; the Prize of Tv.'ENTY Sovereigns, 

 for the best Essay on any suiiject in Agricultural Cliemi-.try. 



Joshua Trimmer, of Foden Bank, Macclesfield. Cheshire ; the Prize of Fifty Sovereigns, for the 

 best Report on the Agricultural Geology of England and Wales. 



W'liiLiAM Bearn, of H indley Farm, near Towcpster, Northamptonshire ; the Prize of Fifty Sove- 

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



Thomas Rowlandson, of Brompton, Middlesex; the Prize of Ten Sovereigns, for the best Essay 

 on the Production of Butter. 



William Dickinson, of North Mosses, near Cockermouth, Cumberland ; the Prize of Fifty Sove- 

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



Hugh Raynbtrd, of Laverstoke, near Andover, Hampshire ; the Prize of Twenty Sovereigns, for 

 the best Essay on" the Management of the Clovers, Rye-grass, Szc, with the best remedy for 

 Clover Sickness. 



John Wilson, of Iver, Buckinghamshire ; the Prize of Thirty Sovereigns, for the best Accoimt of 

 the Manufacture of Sugar from Beet-root. 



