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Report to the General Meeting. 
To Thomas Rowlandson, of Liverpool, the Prize of Fifty Sovereigns 
for the best Report on the Farming of North Wales. 
To Samuel Jonas, of Ickleton, Cambridgeshire, the Prize of Fifiy 
Sovereigns for the best Rejjort on the Farming of Cambridgeshire. 
To John Bravender, of Cirencester, the Prize or Fifty Sovereigns 
for the best Report on the Advantages or Disadvantages of Break- 
ing up Grass-land. 
To George Nicholls, of Hyde Park Street, London, the Prize of 
Thirty Sovereigns for the best Essay on the Improvement of the 
Condition of the Agricultural Labourer, so far as it may be pro- 
moted by private exertion without legislative enactment. 
To Hugh Raynbird,* of Hengrave, Suffolk, the Prize of Twenty 
Sovereigns for the best Account of Measure- Work, locally known 
as Task, Piece, Job, or Grate work, in its application to agricultural 
labour. 
To W. C. Spooner, of Southampton, the Prize of Ten Sovereigns for 
the best Account of the Use of Superphosphate of Lime produced 
with Acid and Bones for Manure. 
To T. C. BuRKOUGHEs, of Gazclcy, Cambridgeshire, the Prize of 
Ten Sovereigns for the best Account of the Cultivation of White 
Mustard. 
To Wm. Linton, of Sheriff Hutton, Yorkshire, the Prize of Ten 
Sovereigns for a description of the best method of Draining 
Running Sands. 
The Judges on the sixteen Essays on the Keej^ng of Farming 
Accounts having reported that none of the Essays are worthy of 
the Prize offered by the Society in that class, the Council have 
appointed a Committee to report on the best mode in their opi- 
nion in which a practical fanner may be enabled in the simplest 
manner to keep the requisite accounts connected with his farming 
establishment. The Council are indebted to the kindness of 
Mr. John Clarke, of Long Sutton, Lincolnshire, in having 
placed at the disposal of the Journal Committee his Essay on 
Grass Lands, commended by the Judges. 
The Council have adopted the following schedule of subjects 
and amount of prizes for the Reports and Essays of next year, 
subject to such conditions as will hereafter, in due time, be pub- 
lished : — 
