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I. AWARDS MADE IN 1847—1848. 
To James M'Adam, junior, of Belfast, the prize of Twenty Sove- 
reigns, with the Marquis of Downshire's addition of Thirty 
Sovereigns, for the best Essay on the Cultivation and Management 
of Flax. 
To George Legard, of Fangfoss, near Pocklington, the prize of Fifty 
Sovereigns, for the best Report on the Farming of the East Riding 
of Yorkshire. 
To Thomas Rowlandson, of Douglas-street, Bootle-lane, Liverpool, 
the prize of Twenty Sovereigns, for the best Essay on the Cultiva- 
tion of Hemp. 
To Robert Smith, of Burley, Rutlandshire, the prize of Thirty 
Sovereigns, for the best Essay on the Management of Grass Land. 
To John H. Charnock, of Wakefield, the prize of Fifty Sovereigns, 
for the best Report on the Farming of the W. Riding of Yorkshire. 
To John Bravender, of Cirencester, the prize of Fifty Sovereigns, for 
the best Report on the Farming of Gloucestershire. 
To Henry Tanner, of the Hermitage, Newbury, the prize of Fifty 
Sovereigns, for the best Report on the Farming of Devonshire. 
To Hall William Keary, of Longlands, Holkham, Norfolk, the prize 
of Thirty Sovereigns, for the best account of the Management of 
Cattle. 
To Thomas L. Colbeck, of East Denton, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 
the prize of Twenty Sjvereigns, for the best Report on the Use of 
Lime as a Manure. 
To George Waters, junior (Member of the R. Coll. of Vet. Surg.), 
of St. Andrew's Hill, Cambridge, the prize of Fifty Sovereigns, 
for the best Report on the Pleuro-Pneumonia amongst Cattle. 
To Samuel Rutley, of West Yaldham, Wrotham, Kent, the prize of 
Twenty Sovereigns, for the best Account of the Management of Hops- 
