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but after the agreement was completed, the drainage of No. 1 field 

 was pushed on, and it was ploughed at Martinmas 1859, and 

 sown with 5 bushels of oats per acre, top-dressed with 2 cwts. 

 of Peruvian guano per acre, sown and harrowed in along with 

 oats in 1860. There was no rent paid for this crop. 



In July 1860, the heather ground in Nos. 2 and 3 fields was 

 ploughed. No. 2 field, 23 acres, was sown with oats in 1861, 

 5 bushels oats and 2 cwts. Peruvian guano per acre on first furrow. 

 No. 3 field, 20 acres, was trench-ploughed over, along with No. 1, 

 22 acres, and both wrought in for turnips in 1861. The portion 

 of moss ground in No. 1 was top-dressed with 6 tons of shell 

 sand per acre, after the land was reduced, and before the turnips 

 were sown. Both fields got 1 cwt. Peruvian guano, 1 cwt. dis- 

 solved bones, 1| cwt. bone meal, and 1-| cwt. bone dust, along 

 with 15 tons of farm-yard manure per acre. 



Field No. 4 was top-dressed on the heather with 5 tons of 

 shell marl in 1861, ploughed and sown with 5 bushels oats, and 

 2 cwts. Peruvian guano per acre in 1862. Field No. 1 was sown 

 down to grass with oats in 1862. No. 3 was sown with oats in 

 1862. And No. 2 was trench-ploughed in winter and wrought 

 in for turnips, the heather portion of it being top-dressed with 

 5 tons of shell sand per acre, before the turnips were sown with 

 same manure as Nos. 1 and 3 got. 



In 1863 No. 2 was sown down to grass with an oat crop, No. 3 

 was subsoil-ploughed, No. 4 trench-ploughed, and both were 

 wrought in for turnips ; No. 3 was top-dressed with 5 tons of shell 

 sand per acre before the turnips were sown. Turnip manures as 

 above. 



In 1864 Nos. 3 and 4 were sown down to grass with an oat crop. 



Nos. 1 and 2 have both been taken up this season (1867) after 

 No. 1 has been four years in grass, and No. 2 three years, and 

 both will be subsoil-ploughed next winter. Nos. 3 and 4 have 

 been two years in grass, and remain so for another year. 



The average produce in oats of the first crop of the 82 acres 

 was about 3| qrs. per acre, and of the 102 acres after turnips 3f 

 qrs. per acre, with little variation in either case, except that field 

 No. 4, which was marled, yielded most, but lightest per bushel. 

 The shell sand seemed to make no difference on the oat crops. 

 The crops on the new land ripened each year eight or ten days 

 earlier than those on the rest of the farm, and weighed about 

 2 lbs. per bushel heavier, averaging nearly 42 lbs. The oats were 

 such a fine sample that they were always used with advantage 

 in seeding the old land. 



The turnip crops were comparative failures. They were always 

 too late in being sown ; the new land, requiring a great deal of 

 working, was invariably postponed till the rest of the break was 

 laid down, and the first week in July was generally well through 



