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ESSAYS AND REPORTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. 
^rnes for 1846. 
PRIZE ESSAYS. 
I. Fakming of North Wales. 
Fifty Soverkigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given for 
the best Report on the Farming of North Wales. 
Competitors will be expected to describe the different varieties of soil 
which prevail in North Wales, and the quality and extent of the waste 
lands; also the ordinary modes of farming and courses of cropping 
adopted according to its various districts; and to state how far any 
peculiar practices in its husbandry are or are not justified by pecu- 
liarities of soil or climate. They will also be expected to state what 
improvements have been made in the farming of North Wales since 
the Report of the Rev. Walter Davies in the year 1810; and especially 
to point out what further improvements ought to be effected, either by 
better farming on land already cultivated, or by converting land now 
waste into arable, pasture, or catch-meadow. 
N.B. The writers of County Reports are requested, if possible, not to exceed the 
length of 40 or at most 50 printed pages. 
II. Farming of West Riding of Yorkshire. 
Fifty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given for 
the best Report on the Farming of the West Riding of Yorkshire. 
Competitors will be expected to describe the different varieties of soil 
which prevail in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and the quality and 
extent of the waste lands ; also the ordinary modes of farming and 
courses of cropping adopted according to its various districts ; and to 
state how far any peculiar practices in its husbandry are or are not jus- 
tified by peculiarities of soil or climate. They will also be expected 
to state what improvements have been made in the farming of the West 
Riding of Yorkshire since the Report of Robert Brown in the year 
