Prizes for Essays and Reports, 
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2. The peculiarities, whether advantageous or defective, in its 
agricultural management. 
3. The improvements effected in the farming of South Wales 
since the Report of Walter Davies in the year 1814. 
4. The improvements still required, with reference to the climate 
and character of South Wales, as to the higher culture of ex- 
isting farms, the reclamation of waste lands, whether for culti- 
vation or improved pasture, and the condition and dwellings 
of the farm-labourer. 
IV. Labourers' Cottages. 
Fifty Sovereigns will be given for the best Essay on the Con- 
struction of Labourers' Cottages ; and 
Twenty Sovereigns will be given for the second-best Essay on the 
same subject. 
Competitors will be required to state — 
The best and most economical mode of building a pair of labourers* 
cottages, with three bed-rooms in each. The paper to be ac- 
companied by plans, elevations, and specifications, with prices 
affixed, enabling those who are desirous of building cottages 
to calculate the cost accurately. If ornament be introduced, 
the same to be estimated separately. The winner of the first 
prize will be expected, if requested, to supply a model for the 
use of the Society. 
V. Increasing Animal Food. 
Fifty Sovereigns will be given for an Essay on the best Method 
of Increasing the existing Supply of Animal Food within the United 
Kingdom. 
Competitors will be required to state — 
1. The sources from which the supplies of lean stock are now 
derived, and whether such supplies are on the increase or 
decrease. 
2. How far it is consistent with improved husbandry that farmers 
in general should breed their own stock. 
3. How the supply of animal food is affected by sending stock to 
the butcher at a very early age. 
4. How the supply of breeding and fat stock will be affected by 
breaking-up pastures. 
