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pratticable and profitable manner of employing the poor in pariſh work houſes; fjve guneas,

3. Eſſay on Marl. To the perſon who ſhall write, and ſend to his So- Ciety on or before the firſt of November 1804, the beſt practtical treatiſe or ellay, founded on his own experience, on: marl and marling land; the ſame to contain a clear account of the various ſorts of marl, their properties, and the beſt mode of applying them reſpettively to the various kinds of land capable of being ſo improved; five gumeas.

4. Treatiſe on Watering Meadows. To the perſon who, at or before the meeting in September 1804, ſhall write, and ſend to the Society, the beſt praCtical treatiſe on the formation, management, and application of water meadow; ez guineas.

5. Eſſay on underwood for different Soils."To the perſon who ſhall, at or before the November meeting in 1804, 1805, or 1806, produce to the So- ciety the beſt eſſay, pointing out from atual experiments the kinds of un- derwood moſt proper for different ſoils and ſituations, and which ſhall an- ſwer the belt purpoſe for the different uſes in the ſeveral counties in which the ſame ſhall be planted; and alſo the age our period of gröwth at which ſuch underwood may be cut to the greateſt.advantage: five guinea.

6. Apple Trees. To the perſon who ſhall write, and ſend to the Society (under the uſual regulations) before the meeting in June 1804, the beſt prattical eſſay, founded:on his own experience, on riſing apple ſtocks z and on raiſing apple trees for tbe orchard, by grafting or otherwiſe; five Zuineas.

7. Making Cyder."To the perſon who ſhall write and ſend to the Society the beſt practical eſſay, founded on his own experience, on gathering in apple, making them into cyder, and managing that cyder until it ſmall become fir for uſe; five gwineas.

8. Woo! To the perlon who in the years 1804 or 18985, ſmall write and ſend to this Society the mot particular and ſatisfactory account, founded 6n his own obſervation, of the effets of diffcrent kinds of management; ſituation, ſoil, and food, including artificial crops, on the wool of ſeep 3 and ſhewing how ſar any improvement or degeneracy in the quality:of that important article may be efiedled by all or either of thoſe cauſes 3 five guineas.

9. Improvernent in Agriculture. An honorary reward, proportioned. to merit, will be given to the perſon who, in any of the five years following, Mall write the belt elay on the improvements in agriculture, that have been ſucceſsfully introduced into this kingdom within tbele fifty years paſt. "The ſaid elay to be produced at or before" the Society"s meeting in Sep- tember 13803.

10. Eſ/ay oz Iron Rail-Ways, compared with Nawvigable Canals. For the beſt eſfay on the comparative utility of iron rail-ways with navigable canals; for conveying coals and other heavy goods; with an accurate eſtimate of the expence, and of the advautages and diſadvantges of each, and how far the former may with propriey be adopted, in this and the- adjacent conties, as a collatcral aid, or even ſometimes wholly to ſuperſede the latter 3 ten guinea.

N. B. The reſult of the repeated trials of iron rail-way roads in Der-

byſhire, Nottinghamſhire, Northumberland,&c. may aſfliſt the enguiry, it compared with the numerous inland canals.