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Prizes for Essays and Reports. 
III. Farming of Kent. 
FiFT-i- Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given for 
the best Report on the Farming of the County of Kent. 
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, 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 Kent since 
the Report of Mr. John Boys in 1805 ; and especially to point out what 
further improvements ought to be effected, either by better farming on 
land already cultivated, or by taking new land into cultivation. 
JV. Heath-Land. 
Twenty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 
for an account of the best method of Reclaiming Heath-land. 
Competitors will be required to describe methods which have been 
successfully adopted in the reclaiming of heath-land, reference being had 
especially to the following points : — 
1. The mode of breaking up, whether by paring and burning, or by 
simple ploughing. 
2. The application of lime. 
3. The course of cropping. 
4. The conversion of heath-land into pasture, where either the steep- 
ness of the land, or its elevation above the sea, does not allow the 
culture of corn. 
V. One-horse Carts. 
Ten Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given for 
the best Essay on the advantages of One-horse Carts. 
Competitors will be required to point out the saving in horse-labour, 
and other advantages which undoubtedly arise from the substitution of 
one-horse carts for waggons. 
VI. Catch-Meadows. 
Twenty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 
for the best Essay on Catch-Meadows. 
Competitors will be required to describe the best and cheiipest method 
of forming water-meadows on the sides of natural slopes, as practised in 
Somersetshire and Devonshire ; the mode of managing them, and of 
applying their produce ; the increase of value thereby given to unpro- 
