570 Prenriums ti 
_ T4. The same ‘premium is extended one year 
farther. The aecowuts and certificates to be 
delivered on cr befére the second Tuesday in 
November, 1805. 
@S.. RemovinG tHe Lu Errecrs oF 
Buicits, or Insucrs. To the person who 
shall discover to the Society the most efectual 
method of removing the ill effects of blights, 
or insects, on iruit-trees: and culinary plants, 
superior to any hitherto known or practised, 
and verified by actual and comparative expe- 
uments; the gold medal, or thirty guineas. 
‘Khe weceunts and certificates to be delivered to 
the Society on or before the first Tuesday in 
February, 1805. 
76. Cury or rur RorinSurer. To the 
person who shall discover to the Society the 
best and most effectual methed of curmg the 
rot: sheep, verified by repeated and satis- 
factory experiments ; the gold medal, or fifty 
guineas. It is expected that the candidates 
turnish accurate accounts of the symptoms and 
cure of the disease, together with the imputed 
cause thereof, and the actual or probable 
means of prevention, which, with proper cer- 
tificates, must be delivered to the Society on or 
before the first Tues sday in February, 1805. 
77.. Cure oF THE Foor-Ror n SHEEP, 
Yo the person who shall discover to the Society 
the best and most effectual method of curing 
the foot-rot in sheep; the stlver medal, or ten 
guineas. It is required, that the cure be 
ascertained by repeated and ‘satisfactory expe- 
riments, and the method of performing it be 
verified by proper certificates delivered to the 
Society on or before the first Tuesday in Fe- 
bruary, 1805. 
78. PrReyENTING THE ILL Errecrs oF 
Fiirs on Surrer. To the person who shall 
discover to the Society the most effectual me- 
thod of protecting sheep from being disturbed 
and injured by flies ; the silver medal, or ten 
guineas. It is required, that the method be 
ascertained by repeated experiments, and that 
& certificate of its efficacy be delivered to the 
Society on or before the first Tuesday in De- 
eember, 1804. 
72. Prorectine Suerr. To the person 
who, in the year 1803, shall protect the great- 
é%t number of sheep, not fewer than one hun- 
dred, by hovels, sheds, or any other means, 
and: give the most ‘satisfactory account, veri- 
fied by experiment, _of the advantages arising. 
from the practice of protecting sheep from the 
imclemency of ‘the weather, “by hevels, sheds, 
or any other means ; the silver medal, or twenty 
guineas. A particular account of the experi- 
ments made, with the advantages arising there- 
from, together with the expense, and certifi- 
eates of its utility, to be produced to the 
Society on or before the first Tuesday in 
March, 1805. 
S0. The same premium is extended ong 
A gricidture. [June, 
yearfarther, The accounts and cert! tificates f& 
be delivered ‘on or ' before the first Tuesday in 
March, 1806!" 3° 
N.B.* Tt1s required that the certificates shall 
specify the lensth of time the sheep were so 
protected, and the manner in which they were 
nalntained ‘during that time ; 3 together with 
the ceneral method of managing them. ; 
81. IupRovise tus Conprtion oF THE 
Lasourntine Poor, By FrecTinG Corraces, 
AND aPpportrontnG Lanp.’ To the person | 
who, in the year 1803, shall erect the greatest 
number of cottages forthe accommodation of 
the labouting poor, and apportion not less than 
two acres of land to each cottage; the gold 
medal. ‘Fhe accounts and cert ificates to be 
delivered to the Society on or before the first 
Tuesday in February, 1805. * 
82. The same premium is extended one year 
farther. The accounts and certificates to be 
delivered to the Society on or before the first. 
i pipe ce in February, 1806. 
. Luprovine tHE ConpiTION oF THE 
LABOURING Poor BY arpoRTIONING Lanb | 
to Corrsces. To the person who, in the 
year 1803, shall apportion to the greatest 
number of cottages already built upon his or 
her estate, any quantity of land, not less than 
two acres to each cottage, for the better ac- 
commodation of the respective inhabitants ; 
the gold medal. The accounts of the number ! 
of cottages, and of the quantity of land ap- 
portioned to each, to be delivered to the So- 
ciety, with proper certi ificates, on or before. the 
first Tuesday in February, 1805. 
84. The same premium is extended one 
year farther. The accounts and certificates to 
be delivered on or before the first Tuesday in 
Ay 1806. 
Cuirure or Hemp IN CERTAIN PARTS. 
OF racenck np. The Society for the Encou- 
ragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Com- 
merce, wishing to encourage the growth of 
hemp for the use of the navy im certain parts 
of Scotland, comprehending the whole county 
of Argyle, that part of Perthshire situated to 
the north of the river Tay, and west of the 
Military Road (see Ainslie’s Map of Scotland) 
leading from Logierait to the county of Inver- 
ness, and such other parts of Scotland as lie 
north of Inverness-shire, offers to the person - 
who shall sow with hemp, m drills at least . 
eighteen inches asunder, the greatest quantity 
of jJand in the above-mentioned district, not 
less than fifty acres statute measure, in the 
year 1804, and shall at the proper season cause 
to be plucked ihe summer hemp (er male hemp 
bearing no seed), and continue the winter hemp 
(ér female hemp bearing seed) on the ground. 
until the sced is ripe, the goid a or ey, 
guineas. 
86. To the person hel shall sow with. hemp, 
in drills at least eighteen inches asunder, the 
