Prizes for Essays and Reports. 
1799 ; and especially to point out what further improvements ought to 
be eflfected. 
III. Farming of Cambridgeshire. 
Fifty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given for 
the best Report on the Farming of the County of Cambridge. 
Competitors will be expected to describe the different varieties of soil 
which prevail in the county, the ordinary modes of farming and courses 
of cropping adopted accordingly in its various districts ; to describe the 
great works of drainage ; and to state how far any peculiar practices in 
its husbandry are or are not justified by peculiarities of soil or climate. 
They will also be expected to state what improvements have been made 
in the farming of Cambridgeshire since the Report of the Rev. W. Gooch 
in the year 1813 j and especially to point out what further improvements 
ought to be effected, either by better farming on land already cultivated, 
by improvement of the general drainage, or by taking new land into 
cultivation. 
IV. On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Breaking up 
Grass-Land. 
Fifty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 
for the best Report on the Advantages or Disadvantages of Breaking up 
Grass-land. 
Competitors will be expected to state the advantages so arising to the 
labourer, the farmer, the landlord, and the public, from increase of em- 
ployment, of profit, of rent, and of food. 
Grass-lands must be divided under at least three heads — of down- 
lands, cold pastures, and good meadow or grazing ground. 
The mode proposed for breaking up and tilling each kind of grass-land 
must be described. 
V. On the Improvement of the Condition ok the Agricultural 
Labourer. 
Thirty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 
for the best Essay on the Improvement of the Condition of the Agri- 
cultural Labourer, so far as it may be promoted by private exertion, 
without legislative enactment. 
VI. On the best Method of Keeping Farming Accounts. 
Ten Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given for 
the best Essay on the Keeping of Farming Accounts. 
