XXVI 
Prizes for Essays and Reports. 
IX. Tile-Yards. 
Twenty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 
for the cheapest and best method of establishing a Tile-yard. 
Competitors will be required to attend to the following points : — 
1. Mode of working the clay, according to its quality. 
2. Machine for making the tiles. 
3. Sheds for drying the tiles. 
4. Construction of the kiln. 
5. Cost of forming the establishment. 
6. Cost of the tiles when ready for sale. 
X. Curing Butter. 
Fifty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 
for the best description of the Dutch method of salting butter; pointing 
out the causes of its superiority to other salted butters. 
XI. Experiment in Agriculture. 
Twenty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 
for an account of the best Experiment in Agriculture. 
These Essays must be sent to the Secretary, at 12, Hanover Square, 
London, on or before March \st., 1845. 
RULES OF COMPETITION FOR PRIZE ESSAYS. 
1. All information contained in Prize Essays shall be founded on 
experience or observation, and not on simple reference to books, or other 
sources. 
2. Drawings, specimens, or models, drawn or constructed to a given 
stated scale, shall accompany writings requiring them. 
3. All competitors shall enclose their names and addresses in a cover, 
on which only their motto, and the subject of their E>.say, and the number 
of that subject in the Prize list of the Society, shall be w ritten. 
4. The Piesident or Chairman of the Councd for the time being, shall 
open the cover on which the motto designating the Essay to which the Prize 
has been awarded is written, and shall declare the name of the author. 
5. The Chairman of the Journal Committee shall alone be empowered to 
open the motto paper of such Essays, not obtaining the Prize, as he may 
think likely to be useful for the Society's objects, with a view of consulting 
the writer confidentially as to his willingness to place such paper at the 
disposal of the Journal Committee. 
6. The copyright of all Essays gaining prizes shall belong to the Society, 
who shall accordingly have the power to publish the whole or any part of 
such Essays ; and the other Essays will be returned on the application of the 
writers ; but the Society do not make themseUes responsible for their loss. 
7. The Society are not boimd to award a prize unless they consider one 
of the Essays deserving of it. 
8. In all reports of experiments the expenses shall be accurately detailed. 
9. The imperial vveights and measures only are those by which calcula- 
tions are to be made. 
10. No prize shall be given for any Essay which has been already in print. 
1 1. Prizes may be taken in money or plate, at the option of the successful 
candidate. 
12. All Essays must be addressed to the Secretary, at the house of the 
Society. 
