[eee } Premiums in 
ultry, and other of its uses, is also desired. 
is known to be particularly serviceable in 
| gshing honey to bees. 
40, Ratstné Grass Srrps. .To. the per- 
| gon who shall raise the greatest quantity of each 
| or any of the fol! owing named grass seeds, vis. 
|) —Meadow fox-tail (alopecurus pratensis), 
“ aweet-scented + vernal grass (anthoxanthum odo- 
| ratum), Timothy grass, meadow, Fescpe grass, 
! smooth-stalked meadow grass (poa pratensis 23 
rough-stalked meadow grass (pea. trivialis) ; 
“the silver medal, or ten guineas. Tt is required 
“that certificates from persons who have vicwed 
them in a proper state, to identify that they 
{ ate one or other of the seeds apove e mentioned, 
i indicating cleasly the, particular species, and. 
| noticing the quantity produced, of such seeds, 
‘free from weeds or mixture of other grasses, 
> together with proper samples. of the seeds, be 
| produced to the Society on or before the first 
| fey of February, 1805. 
| 741. The same. preminm is extended one 
| Year farther. Certificates to be produced on 
or before the first day of February, 1806. 
42. Rorarrtoy or Crors: To the person 
_ who shall, -between the 10th of August, 1801, 
and the 10th of September, 1803, cultivate the 
_ greatest quantity of land, not less than forty 
_ acres, in the following rotation, viz. Ist, winter 
_ tares; 2d, turnips ; and 3d, wheat; and apply 
e two former crops in the best and most 
farmeér-like manner, to the rearing, supporting, 
and fattening horses, cattle, sheep, or bogs, on. 
e land which produced the crops ; the gold 
‘hedal, or one hundred guineas. 
43. For the next m quantity and merit, on 
not less than thirty acres, the silver medal, or 
fifty guineas. 
44, For the next in quantity and merit, on 
not less thap twenty acres, the silver medal. 
Tt is required, that every operation | and expense 
be fully described, and that satisfactory certi- 
ficates of the nature and condition of the soil 
ou which the crops have grown, together wiih 
ah account of their appearance, the number of 
horses and cattle, sheep or hogs, fed by the 
two green crops, and, as near as possible, the 
improved value of the live stock by the con- 
-simption of those crops, and also the quantity 
of wheat per acre, and its weight per busliel, 
be produced to the Society on or before the 
first day of November, 1804. 
‘Tt is presumed that very great advantages 
will arise to such agricultarists as shall adopt 
this rotation of crops on a dry soil. They will 
«be enabled, with the addition of a few acres of 
turnip-rooted cabbage for sprmg-food, to keep 
such large flocks of sheep and herds of neat 
Cattle a’ may secure a sufficient quantity of 
Manure to fertilize their land in the highest 
degree, and in every situation. . It is farther. 
eonceived, that wheats which will bear sowing 
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in the spring will be particularly suitable for 
this premiuin. 
45, 46,47. The same premiums are ex- 
tended one year farther. Certificates to be de- 
livered on orbefore the first day of November, 
1805. 
48. Prarservine Tornips. To the per- 
son who shall discover to the Society the best 
and cheapest method of preserving turnips 
penectly sound, and im every respect fit for 
the purpose of supporting and fattening sheep 
and neat cattle, & wing the months of February, 
March, and april; the silver as gee or ten 
guineas. ‘Tt is req ynired that a full and accurate 
account of the method employed, and tlic ex- 
pense, attending the process, together with 
certificates that the produce of four acres at the’ 
least have been preserved according to the 
method described, and applied to the feeding 
of sheep and neat cattle ;sthat the whole were 
drawn cut of ihe ground betore the first day of 
February, in order to clear the greater part of 
it previous to. its being prepared for corn, and’ 
to save the soil from being exhausted by ‘the 
turnips; 2 2nd also of the weight of an average 
sixteen perches of the erop ; be preduced to 
the Society.on or before the. first pant in’ 
November, 1804. 
N.G.. It is recommended to those who may be 
induced to tr y the necessary experin nets for ob- 
taming this and the following four premiums, to 
consider the inethod empl loyed. for the preservation’ 
of potatoes in ridges (which the growers call pies), 
and also the propriety of adopting a suirniay me- 
thod in cases where hey are previausly frozen. {£ 
as supposed that, in the latter instance, the addiz 
tion of ice or snow, and the construction. of the 
ridges upon. a large scale, may be sufficient to’ 
preserve the freesing Serapenmney e till the » vegeta 
re are wanted for the use of cattle or sheep, at 
which time they may be thawed by immersion in 
cold water, and the rot which a sudden thaw 
produces may be prevented. 
49. For the next im quantity and incrit, on 
not less than two acres, the silver medal. 
50. Preservinc Caspaces. To the per- 
son who shall discover to the Society the best 
and cheapest method of preserving drun:- 
headed cabbages perfectly sound, and in every 
respect jit for the purpose of supporting and 
fattening sheep and neat cattle during the 
months “of February, March, and April; the 
gold medal, ov thirty guineas. : 
51. For the next in quantity and merit, on 
not less than two acres, the silver medal or 
fifteen guineas. Conditions the same as fot 
preserving turnips, Cl. 48. And the accounts 
to be produced on or before the first Tuesday 
in November, 1805. 
52. PresERVING iad oriee Pansnips, on 
Berets, ‘To the person who shall discover to 
the Society the best and cheapest mothod of 
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