Prizes for Essays and Reports. 
XXIX 
of managing the best breeds of sheep, and the defects of management 
M'hich exist in some parts of the countrj'. 
Competitors will therefore be expected to describe — 
1. The various breeds of sheep. 
2. The mode of feeding and folding the store flocks. 
3. Management of the lambs. 
4. The age at which the sheep fatted, and mode of fatting. 
5. Effect of management on the productiveness of the soil. 
IX. The Great Level of the Fens, including the Fens of 
South Lincolnshire. 
Fifty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given for 
the best Report on the Great Level of the Fens, including the Fens of 
South Lincolnshire. 
Competitors will be expected to describe — 
1. The history of the general drainage, accompanied with a small 
plan for publication. 
2. The mode and defects of the local drainage. 
3. The improvements made in the outfall to sea of the rivers fall * 
ing into the Wash. 
4. The disadvantages arising from the defects still remaining. 
0. The general plans by which those defects might be remedied. 
X. Manure for Wheat. 
Thirty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 
for an Account of the best Manure for Wheat compounded of chemical 
ingredients, to be tried by judges appointed by the Society. 
A statement of the ingredients of the manure to be communicated 
before the prize is awarded. 
XL Manure for Turnips. 
Thirty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 
for an account of the best Manure for Turnips compounded of chemical 
ingredients, to be tried by judges appointed by the Society. 
A statement of the ingredients of the manure to be communicated 
before the prize is awarded. 
XIL Hop-Flv. 
Ten Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given by 
Major Curteis, M.P., for the best account of the hop-flv. and of the 
means for effecting its destruction or preventing its ravages. 
Competitors will be required to state — 
1. The natural history of the hop-fly in all its stages. 
