Prizes for Essays and Reports. 
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Vm. ANY OTHER AGRICULTURAL SUBJECT. 
Ten Sovereigns will be given for an approved Essay on any other 
Agricultural Subject, 
Reports or Essays competing for the Prizes must he sent to the Secretary 
of the Society, at 12, Hanover Square, London, on or before March 1, 
1863. Contributors of Papers arc requested to retain Copies of their 
Communications, as the Society cannot be responsible for their return. 
EULES OF COMPETITION FOR PEIZE ESSAYS. 
1. All information contained in Prize Essaj's shall be founded on experience 
or observation, and not on simple reference to booljs or other sources. Com- 
petitors are requested to use foolscap or large letter paper, and not to write on 
both sides of the leaf. 
2. Drawings, specimens, or models, drawn or constructed to a stated scale, 
shall accompany writings requiring them, 
3. All competitors shall enclose their names and addresses in a sealed cover, 
on which only their motto, the subject of their Essay, and the number of that 
subject in the Prize List of the Society, shall be written.* 
4. Tlie President or Chairman of the Council for the time being shall open 
the cover on which the motto designating the Essay to which 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 thinlc 
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. 
* Competitors are requested to write their motto on the enclosed paper ou which 
their names ai-e written, as well as on the outside of the envelope. 
