Prizes for Kxsmjs and Reports. 
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Competitors are also requested to state, as far as their observation 
may have extended, the comparative value of the grasses of water- 
meadows and uplands, when cut into hay, and consumed as fodder. 
II. Influence of Climate. 
Twenty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 
for the best Essay on the Influence of Climate upon Cultivation within 
the limits of Great Britain and Ireland. 
There being i^ood reason to suppose that the discordant practices of 
farming in different districts may be partly attributed to the influence of 
climate, competitors for this prize must endeavour to describe those 
practices, and to trace them to the variation of climate. 
Under the term climate must be included the degree of cold or heat, 
moisture or drought, arising whether from latitude, elevation, neighbour- 
hood to or distance from the sea, &c. 
Variation in practice may be looked for in the management of artificial 
and natural grass, the growth of root -crops, the depth of ploughing, the 
time of sowing, the choice of white crops, &c. 
III. Indications of FERxiLiTy or Barrenness. 
Fifty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 
for the best Essay on the Indications which are practical guides in 
judging of the Fertility or Barrenness of the Soil. 
Many attempts having been made to explain the productiveness of the 
soil by chemical or physical causes, without any decided result, it ap- 
pears desirable to assist the researches of natural philosophers by making 
them acquainted with those obvious signs, whether of colour, consist- 
ence, or vegetation, by which surveyors and farmers are enabled to give 
at once a practical opinion upon the probable nature of land which they 
inspect. 
IV. Agriculture of Norfolk. 
Fifty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 
for tlie best Report on the present State of the Agriculture of the County 
of Norfolk : — 
Stating the ordinary course of cropping adopted in the diff'erent soils 
of the county ; the breeds of cattle, sheep, and pigs most generally bred 
or fed within it; the state of its drainage; the implements used; the 
number of horses or other cattle employed in the different operations of 
husbandry ; the tenure on which the farms are generally held ; the 
wages of labour ; the average amount of the poor's rate ; and whether 
any and what alterations and improvements have been made in the 
system of agriculture pursued within it since the Report made to the 
Board of Agriculture by Arthur Young, which was published in the year 
1804, and by Nathaniel Kent, which was published in the year 1796. 
