Prizes for the Meeting at Southampton. 
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Extra Stock, Roots, and Seeds. 
For Extra Stock of any kind, not shown for any of 
the above Prizes, and for Roots, Seeds, &c., 
Prizes may be awarded and ap])ortioned, by the 
Committee and Judges, to an amount not ex- 
ceeding in the whole Fifty Sovereigns. 
Any New Implement. 
For the Invention of any new Agricultural Implement, such sum as 
the Society may think proper to award. 
Seed-Wheat and Barley. 
I. Fifteen Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 
to the Exhibitor, at the Meeting at Southampton, of the best 14 bushels 
of White Wlieat, of the harvest of 1843, and grown by himself. 
II. Fifteen Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 
to the Exhibitor, at the Meeting at Southampton, of the best 14 bushels 
of Red Wheat, of the harvest of 1843, and grown by himself. 
III. Ten Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 
to the Exhibitor, at the Meeting at Southampton, of the best 14 bushels 
of Spring Wheat, of the harvest of 1843, and grown by himself. 
IV. Ten Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 
to the Exhibitor, at the Meeting at Southampton, of the best 14 bushels 
of Barley for malting, of the harvest of 1843, and growii by himself. 
V. Ten Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given to 
the Exhibitor, at the Meeting at Southampton, of the best 14 bushels of 
Barley for general purposes, of the harvest of 1843, and grown by himself. 
Competitors are requested to send with their wheat or barley, speci- 
mens, fairly takt n, of the same in the ear, with the whole of the straw, in 
a sheaf not less than one foot in diameter, and with the roots attached. 
[12 bushels of the wheat or barley will be sealed up by the Director or 
Stewards, and one of the remaining bushels of each variety will be 
exhibited as a sample to the public; the other being kept for 
comparison with the produce of the next year. At the General 
Meeting in December, 1845, the prizes will be awarded.] 
The two best samples of each of these three classes of wheat or barley, with- 
out at that time distinguishing, in any of the cases, between the comparative 
merits of either sample, will be selected by the Judges appointed for the 
Meeting at Southampton ; and will be sown, under the direction of the 
Society (the winter wheats in the autumn of 1844, and the spring wheat 
not earlier than the 1st of March, 1845), by four farmers, who will make 
their report, upon which the prizes will be awarded, provided there be suffi- 
cient merit in any of the samples. Ten Sovereigns will be given at the 
Meeting at Southampton to each Exhibitor whose Wheat has been selected 
for trial, and Six Sovereigns for Barley. 
No variety which has been selected for trial at any previous show 
shall be qualified to compete. 
