XVI 
Prizes for Essays and Reports. 
XII. GORSE. 
Twenty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, offered by the 
Right Hon. Lord Kenyon, will be given at the Annual Country Meeting 
of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, to be held at Shrewsbury, 
in 1845, for the best account of the use of Gorse for the food of cattle, 
horses, or sheep, founded on actual experiment. 
Competitors will be required to state the following points : — 
1. The quality of land on which the gorse is grown. 
2. The age of the plant when cut. 
3. The mode and expense of cutting. 
4. The mode and expense of preparing for food. 
5. The mode of feeding with gorse, and the quantity of other food 
given therewith. 
Essays competing for this last Prize must be sent to the Secretary, 
at 12, Hanover Square, London, on or before May 1st, 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 otlier 
sources. 
2. Drawings, specimens, or models, drawn or constructed to a 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 tlieir Essay, and the number 
of that subject in the Prize list of the Society, shall be written. 
4. The President or Chairman of the Council for the time bcin^, 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 conOdentially 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 themselves responsible for their loss. 
