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The Farm Prize Competition o/1890. 
And plenty of other good things and people have they too, 
says the Society's Reporter, bidding adieu to one of the kindliest 
counties of England. In which spirit of sincere appreciation 
he further thanks the Steward and Engineer of the Society, not 
so much, on this occasion, for their assistance in lightening 
judicial labours, as for aid afforded in enjoying, under a most hos- 
pitable roof, two or three days of the pleasantest possible com- 
panionship. 
Dax. Pidgeon. 
THE FARM PRIZE COMPETITION OF 1890. 
The competition for prizes for the best farm management, which 
has now for twenty years been so useful and attractive a feature 
of the Royal Agricultural Society's annual gathering, was this 
year, by the liberality of the Plymouth Local Committee, thrown 
open to farms in the counties of Devon and Cornwall, a district 
in which there had not before been a competition of the kind in 
connection with the Royal meetings. The prizes offered were as 
follows : — 
Class 1. — For the best managed Arable and Grass Farm of 200 acres 
and upwards, of which not less than one-half shall be arable. First prize, 
60/. ; second, 40/. [A third prize of 20/. was subsequently awarded in this 
class on the recommendation of the Judges.] 
Class 2. — For the best managed Arable and Grass Farm above 100 
acres and not exceeding 200 acres, of which not less than one half shall be 
arable. First prize, GO/. ; second, 40/. 
Class 3. — For the best managed Arable and Grass Farm above 40 
acres and not exceeding 100 acres. First prize, 50/. ; second, 30/. ; third, 20/. 
The regulations of these competitions are now pretty gene- 
rally understood ; but it may possibly facilitate a comprehension 
of what follows, and at the same time be useful for purposes of 
record, to subjoin the conditions which had to be complied 
with : — 
1. — The competition in all three classes is limited to Tenant Farmers 
paying a bond-f.de rent for at least three-fourths of the land in their occu- 
pation. 
2. — The Judges are instructed to take into consideration cases in which 
Competitors occupy land when Agents for their landlords, and are likely to 
derive undue advantage from that dual position. 
3. — Competitors must enter for competition all the land in their occupa- 
tion in the district. 
4. — Competitors must Lave had the land in their occupation for not less 
than two yean, 
