Prizes for Essays and Reports. 
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VII. On Measure-Work. 
Twenty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 
for the best account of Measure-Work, locally known as Task, Piece, 
Job, or Grate Work, in its application to Agricultural Labour : detailing 
the various descriptions of such work to which any system of measure 
is applicable ; the rates usually paid, and the sum usually earned in 
a given time ; and comparing the effects of such payment with those 
arising from the payment of wages by time, on the direct interest of the 
employer, and especially on the habits, comforts, and general condition 
of the employed : the whole deduced, as much as possible, from per- 
sonal experience ; and affording to parties unacquainted with the prac- 
tice the means of estimating its advantages, and the information neces- 
sary for carrying it out. 
VIII. Peat Charcoal as a Manure for Turnips or 
OTHER Crops. 
Twenty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 
for the best Essay on Peat Charcoal as a Manure for Turnips and other 
Crops. 
Competitors will be required to attend to the following points: — 
1. Quality of peat. 
2. Mode of making the heaps and burning the charcoal. 
3. Quantity produced from a given measure of peat. 
4. Quantity applied per acre, and effect, in comparison with peat- 
ashes, and with some other manures. 
N.B. This Essay need not be sent in before the 1st of December, 1846. 
IX. The St. John'c-day Rye. 
Ten Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given for 
the best account of the St. Johu's-day Rye. 
Competitors will be required to attend to the following points : — 
1. Times of sowing, and cutting or feeding off in autumn and spring. 
2. Comparison of this vanety with the common rye. 
3. Estimated amount of feed. 
N.B. This Essay need not be sent in before the 1st of October, 1846. 
X. Acid with Bones. 
Ten Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given for 
the best account of the use of Acid with Bones. 
Competitors will be required to attend to the following points : — 
1. State of bones. 
2. Proportion of sulphuric or muriatic acid to a given weight of bones. 
3. Proportion of water mixed with the acid. 
