572 
one year further. Certificaies to be produced 
on or before the first Tuesday in Nov. 1806. 
7%. ASCERTAINING THE BEST METHOD OF 
RAISING Oaxs. To the person who shall as- 
certain in the best manner, by actual experi- 
ments, the comparative merits of the different 
modes of raising oaks for timber, either from 
acorns set on land of the foregoing description 
properly dug or tilled, from acorns set by the 
spade or dibble, without digging or tillage, 
either on a smooth surface, or among bushes, 
fern, or other cover; or from young plants pre- 
viously raised in nurseries, and transplanted ; re- 
gard being had to the expense, growth, and 
ether respective advantages of the several me- 
thods; the gold medal. The accounts and pro- 
per certzficates that not less than one acre has 
been cultivated in each mode, to be produced to 
the Society on or before the first Tuesday in No- 
vember, 1802. ' 
8. The same premium is extended one year 
farther. The accounts and certificates to be pro- 
duced on or before the first Tuesday in Novem- 
ber, 1803. ; 
9. Osrers. To the person who shall have 
planted, between the Ist of October, 1801, and 
the first of May, 1802, the greatest quantity of 
land, not less than five acres, with those kinds of 
willows, commonly known by the names of 
osier, Spaniard, new-kind, or French, fit for the 
purpose of basket-makers, not fewer than twelve 
thousand plants on each acre; the gold medal, 
or thirty guineas, 
10. For the second greatest quantity of land, 
not less than three acres ; the silver medal, or ten 
guineas. Certificates of the planting, and that 
the plants were in a thriving state five months at 
least after the planting, to be produced to the 
Society on or before the last Tuesday in Novem- 
ber, 1802. 
11. The same premiums are extended one 
year farther. Certificates to be produced 
on or before the last Tuesday in Nev. 1803. 
#,* The candidates for planting all kinds of 
trees are to produce certificates that the respective 
plantations are property fenced and secured, end 
particularly to state the condition of the plants at 
the teme of signing such certificates. Any infor= 
mation which the candidates for the foregoing pre- 
miums may choose to communicate, relative to the 
methods made use of in forming the plantations, or 
promoting the growth of the eset trees, or any 
other observations that may have occurred on the 
subject, will be thankfully received, 
12, SEcURING PLANTATIONS OF TIMBER- 
TREES, AND HepGE-Rows. To theperson who 
shalt give to the Society the most satisfactory ac- 
count, founded on experience, of the most effec- 
tual and leas‘ expensive method of securing young 
plantations of timher-trees, and hedge-rows, from 
hares and rabbits, as wellas sheep and larger cat- 
tle, which at the same time shall be least subject 
to the depredations of wood-stealers, the silver 
medal, or twenty guineas. The accounts and 
certificates of the efficacy of the method to be pro- 
Premiums in Agriculture. 
[July 1, 
duced to the Society on or before the first Tues- 
day in November, 1802. 
13, Thesame premium is extended one year far- 
ther. The accounts and certificates to be produced 
on or before the first Tuesday in Noy, 1803. 
14, PREVENTING THE BLIGHT, OR RAVAGES 
or Insects, on FRuIT-TREES AND CULI- 
NARY.PLANTs. To the person who shall disco- 
ver to the Society the most effectual method of 
preventing the blight, or ravages of insects, on 
fruit-trees and culinary plants, superior to any 
hitherto known or practised, and verified by ac- 
tual and comparative experiments ; the gold me- 
dal, or thirty guineas. The accounts, with proper 
certificates, to be delivered to the Society on or 
before the second Tuesday in November, 1802. 
15. The same premium is extended one year 
faither. The accounts and certificates to be de- 
livered on or before the second Tuesday in No- 
vember, 1803. 
16. REMovING THE ILL EFFECTS oF BLIGHTS, 
or Insects. To the person who shall discover 
to the Society the most effectual method of re- 
moving the ill effects of blights, or insects, on 
fruit-trees and culinary plants, superior to any 
hitherto known or practised, and verified by ac- 
tual and comparative experiments; the gold me-— 
dal, or thirty guineas. The accounts and certifi- 
cates to be delivered to the Society on or before 
the first Tuesday in February, 1803, ot 
17, ComPARATIVE TILLAGE. Forthemost 
satisfactory set of experiments, made on not less 
than eight acres of land, four of which to be 
trench-ploughed*, and four to be ploughed in the, - 
usual manner, in order to ascertain in what cases 
it may be adviseable to shorten the operations of 
tillage, by adopting one trench-ploughing, for the 
purpose of burying the weeds, instead of the me- 
thod, now in common use, of ploughing and har- 
rowing the land three or four times, and raking 
the weeds together and burning them; the gold 
medal, or forty guineas. Itis required thatevery 
operation and expense attending each mode of 
culture be fully and accurately described, and 
that proper certificates of the nature and condi- 
tion of the land on which the experiments are — 
niade, together with a circumstantial account of 
the appearance of the subsequent crops during 
their growth ; and also of the quantity and weight 
of the corn and straw under each mode of cul- 
ture, or, in case of a green crop, the weight of 
an average sixteen perches, be produced to the | 
Society onor before the first Tuesday in Feb 1803.’ 
18, CompARATIVE CULTURE OF WHEAT, 
BROAD-CAST, DRILLED, AND DIBBLED, For 
the best set of experiments made on not less than 
twelve acres, four of which to be sown broad- 
cast, four drilled, and four dibbled, the two lat- 
ter in equi-distant rows, in order fully to ascer= 
tain which is the most advantageous mode of cul- 
tivating wheat; the gold medal, or forty guineas. 
It is required that every operation and expense of 
each mode of culture be fully described ; and that 
proper certificates of the nature and condition of — 
the !and on which the experiments are made, to- — 
_* Itis a common practice among gardeners, when they have a piece of very foul land, to dig it two spits, or about 
eightecn inches deep, shovellinz the weeds to the bottum. This they call wenching. ~ 
