The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-29 00:00:00

other advantages whieh undOubtedly arise from.the substitu-
tion of one-horse carts for waggons.
Twenty sovereignaror a piece of plate of that value, will
be given for the best essay on catch meadows. Competitors
will be required to describe the best and cheapest method of
forming water meadows on the sides of natural slopes, as
practised in Somersetshire and Devonshire ; the mode of
managing them, and of applying their produce; the increase
of value thereby given to unproductive hill-sides; and to
state how far this mode of improvement might be applied
to the mountainous districts of Wales and of the north of
England.
Twenty sovereigns, or a piece of plate of that value, will
be given for the best essay on fences. Competitors will be
required to describe the best and neatest methods of manu-
facturing hedges, whether for arable or for grazing, and to
point out how far the present fences in various parts of Eng-
land are injurious to the farmer. whether by their size, their
excess in number, or the over-abundance of timber which
they contain.
Twenty sovereigns, or a piece of plate of that value, will
be given for the cheapest and best method of establishing a
tile yard. Competitors will be required to attend to the fol-
lowing points :—Mode of working the clay, according to its
quality; machine for making the tiles sheds for drying the
tiles; construction of the kiln ; cost of forming the establish-
ment ; cost of the tiles when ready for sale.
Ten sovereigns, or a piece of plate of that value, will be
given for an account of the best method of fattening cattle, as
to the places in which they are kept, large or small yards or
stalls, as well as the food, roots, hay, &c., on which they are
fed during the time of fattening.
Fifty sovereigns, or a piece of plate of that value, for the
best description of the Dutch method of salting butter,
• pointing out the causes of its superiority to other salted butter.
Twenty sovereigns, or a piece of plate of that value, will
be given fir !,in account of thej,est experiment in agriculture.
These essays must be sent to the secretary on or before the
Ist of March, 1845, and all information contained in them
must be founded on experience or observation, and not on
simple reference to books or other sources. The copyright of
all essays gaining prizes shall belong to the Society, which
will have the power to publish them; the other essays will
be returned on the application of the writers.
There was a ball last night (according to custom), which
took place at the Victoria-rooms, and was very fully at-
tended, upwards of 400 persons being present, among whom
were the Earl and Countess of Hardwicke, Lady Mary and
the Misses Long, Lady Henry and Miss Paulet, Mrs. and
the Misses Colt, :Colonel Sir Ge-rge and Lady Burgoyne, Sir
H. Paulet, Admiral Dacres and family, Captain Dacres, R.N.,
Mr., Mrs., and the Misses Welds, of Liilworth Castle ; Mr.
Hope, M.P. ; the officers of the Grenadier Guards, from Win-
chester; the officers of the Victory, Excellent, and others of
her Majesty's ships at Portsmouth ; Mrs. Abbott and the
Misses Abbott, the Misses Duke, Colonel Henderson, &c.
This morning the show yard was again visited by many
thousand persons, many of them attending for the purpose of
purchasing some of the stock intended for sale, A great
portion of the stock, brought only for exhibiting, not in-
tended for sale, was removed from the ground and sent off by
special trains rom the temporary station made for the occa-
siOn at Portswood.