general conditions. 
Although in wording the foregoing Premiums, care has 
been taken to guard againft improper Claims, the 
Society think it expedient to add, that their deftgn is 
not to reward thoje %vho are already Good Farmers 
for what happens to he their ufual mode of praSice-, 
but to increafe the number offuch, by exciting a Jpirit 
of emulation in others to follow their example-, and to 
indemnify them for any extra expence or lofs they may 
Jufiainfrom new experiments. And therefore, to pre- 
vent aty claimant from gaining any Premium, who, 
although he may have complied in his ufual courfe of 
pr allice with the mere letter of the premium offered, 
has done nothing new to obtain it, the following Ge- 
NERAL Conditions are added. 
'HE Society referve to themfelves the power of 
giving, in fuch cafes, fuch part only of any 
premium as the performance fhall be judged to 
deferve; or of withholding the whole, if there be 
no merit. 
To prevent partiality, it is required, that all 
matters for which premiums are claimed, be de- 
livered in without names, or any intimation to 
whom 
