Awards at Southampton : Commendatiovs. 
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Charles Osborn, of Farcham, Hampshire : for his 1 year and 2 months-old Small 
Essex and Sussex-Cross Boar : bred by himself. 
George Penfokd, of Hill Street Farm, near Totton, Hampshire : for his 10 months-old 
Small-breed Boar ; bred by himself. 
Geouge Penford, of Hill Street Farm, near Totton, Hampshire : for his 18 weeks-old 
Small-breed Boar; brcJ by himself. 
The Earl of S r. Germans, of St. Germans, Cornwall : for his 9 months-old Leicester- 
shire Boar (of a small breed) ; bred by himself, 
James Singer Turner, of Old Shoreham, near New Shoreham, Sussex : for his 2 years 
and 4 months-old Small-breed Boar ; bred by himself. 
The late Lord Western, of Felix Hall, near Kelvedon, Essex : for his 1 year and 4 
mouths-old Improved Essex Boar (of a small breed) ; bred by himself. 
Joseph Willis, of Bucknowle, near Corfe-Castle, Dorsetshire : for his 10 months and 2 
weeks-old Improved Essex Boar (of a small breed); bred by Henry Fookes, of Monk- 
ton, near Blandford, Dorsetshire. 
[These Commendations are arranged in the order of the numbers of the Certificates to which 
tliey refer. Tlie mark (•) signifies "hiohly commended;" the omission of it, "com- 
mended ;" by the Judges. Mr. Godwin's Ewes were " very highly commended."] 
SELECTION OF SEED WHEAT AND BARLEY. 
Caleb Hammond Gater, of Swathling Farm, near Southampton : Fourteen busliels of 
W"hite Wheat, grown in 1843, on a hazel-mould, or gravel subsoil, on Iiis farm at 
Swathling. The seed, obtained from William Payne, of New Barn Farm, near 
Winchester, was called tlie Briltany or Bj-cef/o/; Wheat ; and was sown broad- 
cast and pressed on a one-year's clover-ley, dressed with farm-yard manure once 
turned in heap. 
Edward Davis Hodding, of Odstock, near Salisbury : Fourleen bvshels of Barley, 
grown in 1843 on a chalky soil, on his farm at Odstock. Tlio '■oed, oblained from 
Leghorn by J. Rowden, of Bishopstone, and by him called i^^j'wn Barley, was 
sown after turnips (drilled with 40 bushels per acre of night-soil and ashes) pre- 
ceded by a crop of wheat. 
[The result of the cultivation of this Wheat and Barley, and the comparison of their productiveness 
with that of other varieties commonly grown in the respective neighbourhoods where the trials 
are made, w ill be reported to the General December Meeting in 1845.] 
