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Prizes for Exsaijs and Reports, 
1. The soils best adapted for beet. 
2. The preparation of the land for beet. 
3. Manuring. 
4. Time and mode of sowing. 
.5. Varieties of beet. 
6. Mode and expense of taking up the crop. 
7. Mode of storing. 
8. The description of stock to the use of whicli beet is usually 
applied, and the advantages of the use of beet as compared 
with other roots, at the particular time when it is so applied. 
VI. Burning of Land for Manure. 
Ten Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given for 
the best Account of the Burning of Land for Manure. 
Competitors will be expected to describe — 
L The character of the soils on which burning is beneficial. 
2. The various modes of preparing land for burning. 
3. The mode of burning and the expense. 
4. The benefit arising from the operation. 
5. The injuries which may arise from the abuse of the burning of 
land. 
VII. Flax. 
Twenty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 
for the best Report on Flax. 
Competitors will be expected to state the reasons, general and parti- 
cular, in favour of extending the growth of Flax in this country, and 
what are the considerations adverse to the practice. They will likewise be 
expected to explain in detail the most approved methods of cultivating 
the plant, the best mode of saving the crop and preparing the flax for 
market, and to state in what way the whole or any portion of the seed 
may be saved with the least injury to the fibre, and how the seed may 
be most profitably applied by the farmer. 
The Marquis of Downshire will add £30 to this Prize. 
VIII. Management of Sheep. 
Twenty Sovereigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given 
for the best account of the Management of Sheep. 
Although it is clear that no one breed of sheep can be best suited for 
all parts of the coimtry, and tliat consequently the system of manage- 
ment must vary also, it is desirable to ascertain the most approved mode 
