Report, to the. General Meeting. 
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C'oiiuuissloiieis ; and numerous promises of support have already 
been received from members of the Society and others, engaged 
in this branch of animal products, towards carrying out its due 
representation. 
Mr. Chadwick, C.B., has also read a Paper on the Half-time 
Principl(> of Instruction to Children engaged in Agriculture. 
The schedule of prizes offered for Essays and Reports, to 
be sent in to the Secretary, by the 1st of March next, is as 
follows : — 
I. xYgeicultuke of Staffobdshire. 
Fifty Sovereigns will be given for the best Report on the 
Agriculture of Staffordshire. 
The principal geological and physical features of the county should be 
described ; the nature of the Roil and character of the Farming in its 
different districts or natural divisions ; its Live Stock ; Implements ; 
recent changes of Farm Management; Improvements lately intro- 
duced and still required; remarkable or characteristic Faiius; the 
influence exercised by neighbouring mines and factories on the 
cropping of the soil, the value of land, the rates of prices and 
wages, and on the demand for timber, and consequently on the 
profitable management of woods and plantations. 
II. SUBSOILING VERSUS DoUBLE-PlOUGHING. 
Twenty Sovereigns will be given for the best Essay on the 
Comparative Merits of Subsoiling, Trenching, and 
Double-ploughing. 
The comjiarative cost of these several modes of cultivation ; their influ- 
ence on different crops, on the germination of seed-weeds, aud the 
destruction of root-weeds ; the supplies of manure required in each 
case are to be contrasted, and the most seasonable manner of con- 
ductmg the work described. 
III. Steam Power and Threshing-Machines. 
Twenty Sovereigns will be given for the best Essay on the 
Comparative Advantages of Fixed or Moveable Steam- 
Power, and of the Single and Double - dressing 
Threshing-machine. 
The cost of repairs and allowance required for depreciation in each case 
are to be carefully examined ; the labour and waste incidental to 
threshing in the field and in the bam ; and the aiiplicability of the 
steam-power to other purposes should be contrasted : in the case of 
the threshing-machines, the weight of the machine and the require- 
ments of the market in respect of samples should he considered. 
