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Prizes for Essays and Reports. 
3, Crops : 
Whether the produce has been increased. 
The total amount of work done in a season ; the number of 
days in which the tackle has been in use, the nature of the 
accidents and stoppages which have occurred, and the cost of 
ordinary repairs, breakages and improvements in the tackle 
should be stated. 
rv. RECLAIMING OF WASTE LANDS. 
TwENTY-rrvE Sovereigns will be given for the best Eeport on 
the Eeclaiming of AVaste Lands. 
The works described must have been executed in England or Wales 
within the last ten j'ears. Tlie nature of the soil and climate, the 
plan and cost of drainage, clearing or grubbing, marUng, fencing, 
roadmaking ; the crops grown, and the course of culture and 
management to be pursued, should be stated. 
V. MOVEABLE FENCING FOE,: SHEEP. 
Ten Sovereigns ■will be given for the best Essay on Moveable 
Fencing for Sheep. 
The cost, durability, and convenience of hurdles of various kinds ; of 
portable fencing, wood or iron ; and of nets of various materials 
and meshes, painted or not, should be contrasted. 
VI. DESTRUCTION OF INSECTS INJURIOUS TO AGRICULTURE. 
Twenty So^tsreigns will be given for the best Essay on the 
Destruction of Insects Injurious to Agriculture. 
The Essay may specially apply either to the insects which injury the 
Cereals, or to those which destroy the lioot Crops. References to 
former treatises describing the nature of these insects should be;, 
brief, with special regard to the course of action to be pursued, 
VII. TREATMENT OF LAND DAMAGED BY SALT WATER. 
Fifteen Sovereigns will be given for an approved Essay on the 
Treatment of Land Damaged by the overflow of Salt- 
Water. 
