Prizes for Essays and Rqmrts. 
of managing the best breeds of sheep, and llic defects of management 
which exist in some parts of the country. 
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. 
0. Effect of management on the productiveness of the soil. 
IX. The Great Level of the Fens, including the Fens ok 
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 fiill- 
ing into the Wash. 
4. The disadvantages arising from the defects still remaining. 
5. The general plans by which those defects might be remedied. 
X. Manure for Wheat. 
Thirtt 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 sealed statement of the ingredients of the inorganic manure which 
the competitor proposes to employ, along with the particulars of quantity 
and price, must be addressed under cover to the Secretary. Subsequent 
information as to the mode of trial will be forwarded to the competitors. 
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 sealed statement of the ingredients of the inorganic manure which 
the competitor proposes to employ, along with the particulars of quantity 
and price, must be addressed under cover to the Secretary. Subsequent 
inforraation^as to the mode of trial will be forwarded to the competitors. 
