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81. The fame premium is extended one year further.

The ACCOUNTS and CERTIFICATES to be delivered on or before the second Tuesday in November, 1798.

82. The fame premium is extended one year further.

The ACCOUNTS and CERTIFICATES to be delivered on or before the fecond Tuefday in November, 1799.

83. TAKING OFF THE ILL EFFECTS OF BLIGHTS. To the perfon who shall discover to the Society the best and most effectual method of taking off the ill effects of Blights on Fruit-trees, fuperior to any hitherto known or practised, and verified by actual and comparative experiments, the GOLD MEDAL, or THIRTY GUINEAS.

The ACCOUNTS and CERTIFICATES to be delivered to the Society on or before the firft Tuesday in February, 1798.

84.

COMPARATIVE CULTURE

OF WHEAT. For the best set of experiments, made on not lefs than eight acres, four of which to be fown broad-caft, and four drilled, to afcertain whether it is moft advantageous to cultivate Wheat by sowing it in the common broad-caft way, or by drilling it in equidiftant rows, hoeing the intervals; the GOLD MEDAL, or the SILVER MEDAL and TWENTY GUINEAS.

It is required that an account of the expence attending each mode of culture, with proper CERTIFICATES of the nature and condition of the land on which the experiments are made, together with an account of the produce of the Corn, be produced to the Society on or before the first Tuesday in February, 1798,

85. The fame premium is exended one year further.

The ACCOUNTS and CERTIFICATES to be delivered on or before the firft Tuefday in February, 1799.

86.

COMPARATIVE CULTURE OF WHEAT. For the best set of experiments, made on not less than eight acres of land, four of which to be fown broadcaft, and four dibbled, to ascertain whether it is most advantageous to cultivate Wheat by fowing it in the common broad-caft way, or by dibbling it in equidiftant rows, hoeing the intervals; the GOLD MEDAL, or the SILVER MEDAL and THIRTY GUINEAS.

It is required that an account of the expence attending each mode of culture, with proper Certificates of the nature and condition of the land on which the experiments are made, together with an account of the produce of the Corn, be produced to the Society on or before the firft Tuesday in February, 1798.

86*. The fame premium is extended one year further.

The ACCOUNTS and CERTIFICATES to to be delivered on or before the firft Tuefday in February, 1799.

87. BEANS AND WHEAT. To the person who shall have planted or drilled, between the firft of December, 1795, and the first of April, 1796, the greatest quantity of land, not less than ten acres, with Beans, and fhall have fown the fame land with Wheat in the fame year 1796; TWENTY GUINEAS.

It is required that an account of the fort and quantity of Beans, the time of planting or drilling, and of reaping or mowing them, the produce per acre threshed, the application of the ftraw, the expence of planting or drilling, hand or horfe hoeing, the distance of the rows, and the quality of the foil, together with CERTIFICATES of the number of acres, and that the land was actually fown with Wheat in the year 1796, be produced on or before the first Tuesday in November, 1797.

N. B. The Society have been informed, that Beans may be drilled or planted fo early as the month of December, from whence may be derived the advantage of an early harveft;

harvest; in which cafe the ftraw will be far more valuable than that from a later planting or drilling.

88. The fame premium is extended one year further.

The ACCOUNTS to be produced on or before the firft Tuesday in November, 1798.

89. The fame premium is extended one year further.

The ACCOUNTS to be produced on or before the first Tuesday in November, 1799.

90. TURNEPS. For the best account of experiments made on at least fix acres of land, to determine the comparative advantage of the drill or broad-caft method in the cultivation of Turneps; the GOLD MEDAL, or the SILVER MEDAL and TEN GUINEAS.

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