SSO = 6 14 The Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
Section I. — Farms in Lancashire, Cheshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire. 
A. — Arable Farms with at least two-thirds of their area 
under rotation of croj)ping : — 
No. of Entrie 
Class 1. Farms of one hundred and fifty acres and uj>) 
wards in extent, 50? J 
Class 2. — Farms above eighty acres in extent, and under] 
one hundred and fifty acres. First Prize, 40Z. ; second, \ 4 
20? ) 
Class 3. — Farms above forty acres in extent, and under) . 
eighty acres, 20? } 
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B. — Dairy or Stock Farms where the course of cultiva- 
tion is chiefly directed to the production of cheese or 
butter, or of animal food : — 
Class 4. — Farms of not less than two hundred acres in) 
extent, 50?. , 
Class 5. — Farms of not less than one hundred acres andj 
under two hundred acres, First Prize, 40?. : second, 20?. j 
Class 6. — Farms of not less than fifty, but under onei , 
hundred acres, 20? ) 
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Sectiox II. — Farms in the Isle of Man. 
Class 7. — Farms of seventy acres or upwards in extent,) „ 
25? j ^ 
Class 8. — Farms under seventy acres in extent, but not) ^ 
less than twenty-five acres, 15? ) 
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Total .. 46 
It must not be inferred, however, that the Farm-prizes offeree ''^ 
have always been so keenly competed for, or that the offers o 
the Society and its Local Committees may not again be receivei 
with indifference in some districts. For instance, the Counci ^ 
offered two prizes of 100/. each, in connection with the Hul 
Meeting in 18 73, for the best-managed farms above 200 acres ii 
extent in the Holderness and Wold districts respectively. Onb 
four Holderness farms Avere entered, and in the Wold clas; 
there was no competition, although the areas defined were o 
considerable extent, and are both characterised by large am 
highly cultivated farms. The cause of this supineness wa: 
openly stated at the time to be that the prize-wi,nners woulc 
probably have their rents raised in consequence of their success 
and this apparently extraordinary reasoning was supported h) 
reference to a prize-winner at a local competition whose ran 
was afterwards raised, and therefore the relation of cause am 
effect was ascribed to the two events. 
Post hoc is often very different from propter hoc ; but if suet 
a feeling as that I have just mentioned were to become general 
the system of Farm-prizes would certainly die of strangulation 
Fortunately, however, I have never heard it suggested that s 
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