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Prizes for the Meetinr/ at Shrewsbunj. 
Seed-Wheat, Barley, and Oats. 
I. Fifteen Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 
to the Exhibitor, at the Meeting at Shrewsbury, of the best 14 bushels 
of White Wheat, of the harvest of 1844, and grown by himself. 
II. Fifteen Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 
to the Exhibitor, at the Meeting at Shrewsbury, of the best 14 bushels 
of Red Wheat, of the harvest of 1844, and groM U by himself. 
III. Ten Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 
to the Exhibitor, at the Meeting at Shrewsbury, of the best 14 busliels 
of Spring Wheat, of the harvest of 1844, and grown by himself. 
IV. 'J'en Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 
to the Exhibitor, at the Meeting at Shrewsbiiry, of the best 14 bushels 
of Barley for malting, of the harvest of 1844, and grown by himself. 
V. Ten Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given to 
the Exhibitor, at the Meeting at Shrewsbury, of the best 14 bushels of 
Oats, of the harvest of 1844, and grown by himself. 
Competitors are requested to send with their wheat, barley, or oats, 
specimens, fairly taken, of the same in the ear, with the whole of the 
straw, in a sheaf not less than one foot in diameter, and with the roots 
attached. 
[12 bushels of the wheat, barley, or oats will be sealed up by the Director 
or Stewards, and one of the remaining bushels of each variety will 
be exhibited as a sample to the public ; the other being kept for 
comparison with the produce of the next year. At the General 
Meeting in December, 1846, the prizes will be awarded.] 
The two best samples of each of these classes of wheat, barley, or oats, with- 
out at that time distinguishing, in any of the cases, between the comparative 
merits of either sample, will be selected by the Judges appointed for the 
Meeting at Shrewsbury ; and will be sown, under the direction of the 
Council (the winter wheats in the autumn of 1845, and the spring wheat 
not earlier than the 1st of March, 1846), by four farmers, who wdl make 
their report, upon which the prizes will be awarded, provided there be sufii- 
cient merit in any of the samples. Ten Sovereigns will be given at the 
Meeting at Shrewsbury to each Exhibitor whose Wheat has been selected 
for trial, and Six Sovereigns for the Barley or Oats. 
*,* No variety which has been selected for trial at any previous show 
shall be qualified to compete in the same class. 
