74 . renee 
ing too hilly, mountaino: uS, Br otherw! ise tin- 
fit £ for tillage, with the best serts of furest 
trees, namely, oak, Spanish chesnuts, ash, ) 
elm) beech, alc ér, willow, larch, spruce, and 
silver fr, with or without screens of Scotch: 
fir, ad dapted ts the soil, and intended for tim- 
bes trees, between thé first of bie ober;i6G6, 
and the first of April, 1807; the gold medal. 
.15.. Fer the serond greatest quantity of 
land: ngi less than seven acres; the silver 
medal. , “y ; 
A particular -account.of the wmethe ds used 
inmaking and manag cian plantations, the 
nature ef the sail, the 
each sort of plants, 
certificates that they wereina 
thriving state two years at least afibs mak=- 
ing the planiation, te be delivered tp the 
Society on or before the inst Tuesday in 
December, E809. A 
N, B. With the 2bove forest trees, the 
ee: cutfings, or planis, of such other trees 
as-are adapted to the soil, and proper for un- 
derwood, may or may not be intermixed. 
. Fhe candidates for planiing all kinds of 
ie ees are to produce certificates that the re- - 
spective planialions ar e properky fenced and 
secured, and pare” fo state the condition 
of ti he phants aithe wocf signing such certifi- 
cates. Any infor is aphich the candidates 
for the: fe: ‘egving premiums may choose to 
communicate, a ee to the methods made 
use of in ferming the plantations, or promot- 
ing tie ar ouwth cof the several trees, or any 
ther ofservaitons tiat may have oceurred 
on thes ants Sat vill be thank fully received. 
16. Sscurive Prawrations or TrrBoR 
Trees, anD Hepas Rows. To the person 
who shall give to the Society the most satis- 
factory account, founded on experience, of 
the most effectual and least expens sive me- 
tacd of securing young ph ntations of timber 
_-tree:, and hedge rows, from hares and rab- 
LS as wellassheep andlarger cattle, which 
tthe same time sail’be leasi subject to the 
erie of weod-stealers; the silver. 
medal. 
The accounts, and eertificates of the effi- 
eacy of ihe peteed » to be produced to the: 
Society on or before: the. first Tuesday in 
, CuLTURE oF WHEAT, 
D, AND DIBELED, For 
riments ymnade on rot less 
ouref which tobe sown 
ipdrilled, and four dibbied, the 
idis ant roy ws, inorder fally 
1st sel Vandaseenis 
ing sie the gold medal. 
. At isre G thai every operation and ex- 
pense of made of cultare be fully de- 
scribed : ad that proper certificates of the 
nature and condition of the pee en which 
the experiments were made, togtther with 
an eqcount ef the produce of the cern, the 
Reiki per bushel, and also of the siraw, be - 
produced to hols Society en or before the 
ficst. Tuesday in Perr wary, 1810. 
- . ~ cf 
Py oceeding as of Learned Societies. 
; 
18. Beans axp Warav. To uh nehion 
who shall have dibbled or drilled between 
the first of December, 1803, and the first of 
April, 1869, the greatest quantity of land, 
not less than ten acres, with beans, in equi- 
distant rows, and lioed the intervals twice 
or oftener, 
land with wieat in the aucun of the year 
1808; the gold medal. 
It is required’ that an account of the sort 
and quautity ef beans, the time of dibbling 
er drilling, and of reaping or mowing them, 
the produce per acre thrashed, the expense 
of oy se or crilling, band or horse hoe- 
, the distance of t the rows, and the qua- 
lity, ofthe soil, together with certificates of 
the number of acres, and that the land was 
afterwards actually sown with wheat, be 
produced on or before the seco day, 
in March, 1810. oP 
19. Beans. To the person who, in the 
year L807, shall eee and cultivate, ei-« 
ther by the drill er dibbling method, on not 
less than five acres, a species of horse-beans 
or tick-beans, that will ripem their seeds 
erin the 2ist of August, the silver medal. 
. It is required that a particular account of 
the bean, the cultivation, and ‘the expense 
attending it, with proper certificates of the 
nature and condition of the 
the experiments were made, together with 
an account of the produce, the weight per 
Winchester bushel, and a sample of not less. 
than a peck, be produced to the Society on 
or before the first Tuesday in December, — 
1809. It is apprehended that if a bean 
should be brought into cultivation with the” 
habits of the hotspur,’ or other early peas, 
that it would ina great measure escape the 
danger arising from the cojliér-inseet, or 
other insects, and allow more time for the 
farmers to till the land for ihe subseqnent 
crop of wheat. The accounts and certijicates 
to be delivered on or before the first Tues> 
day in December, 1809. 
20. Parsnres. To'the person he i in the 
year 1809, shall cultivate the greatest quan- - 
tity of land, not less than five acres, with 
parsnips, for the sole purpose of feeding 
catile or sheep; the gold medal. 
Certificates of the quantity of land so 
cujtivated, with a particular account of the 
nature of the soil ad weight of the produce 
on sixteen perches, and also of the condi- 
tion of the cattle or sheep fed with thé 
parsnips, and the advantages resulting from 
the practice, tabe produced to the Society on 
or hefore the secon dT uesday in in February, 
meet : , 
. Buck Wsear. To the sate ibe 
stig ‘ctiltivate the greatest quantity of land 
with buck wheat, not less than thirty acres 5 
the gold medal. ee ° 
It is required that the time of sowing and 
a 
reaping be noticed; alsoa particular a stint 
of the species, cultivation, and expense at 
tending it, the manner of reaping it, thrash=_ 
ing it, aud housing: ine grain 5. with proper 
Sieh shail have sown the same — 
nd on which 
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