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green food for stock in a dry season, and the certainty which 

 a field of lucerne gives you of securing a good second and 

 third cutting, however dry the season may be. 



It is generally supposed that lucerne should be well hoed 

 every year — a very expensive process ; but if care be taken that 

 the land is well prepared, and thus a full plant be got, and 

 supplied every year with a good dressing of manure, hoeing may 

 be dispensed with, and success ensured. After good crops have 

 been cut consecutively for six or eight years, if the land be 

 ploughed to a f/ood depth, a skim-coulter being used to bury the 

 grass from the edge of tlie furrow, no fear of a good crop of 

 oats need be entertained ; in fact, after such a rest from corn 

 as the land has had, two good crops may be taken in succession, 

 should this be convenient for bringing the lucerne-land into 

 the same course of cropping with the remainder of the field. 



I may sum up my letter by saying, that in my opinion no 

 farmer sliould be without a plot of lucerne in due proportion to 

 the size of his farm, and that 1 am sure no person who has ever 

 hiid doion a piece proper 1 1/ will ever again be without it. 

 I am, my dear Sir, yours very truly, 



John Clayden. 



Littlehury, June 19, 18G5. 



XXX. — Report on the Exhibition of Live Stock at the Plymouth 

 Meeting. By John Dent Dent, M.P., Senior Steward. 



In writing the Report on the Live Stock exhibited at the 

 Society's Show at Plymouth, I am bound to record with satisfac- 

 tion the gracious visit to the Show-yard which was paid by their 

 Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales upon 

 Wednesday, the 19th of July. By the Members of the Society 

 who were present, and by the officials in charge of the Yard, 

 and by thousands of the loyal population of the West country, 

 the honour of this visit was fully appreciated ; and we all grate- 

 fully acknowledge the public recognition of the services of the 

 Society thus made by the heir-apparent to the throne. Indeed, 

 I feel sure that nothing will more gratify the farmers of Great 

 Britain than to find His Royal Highness following the footsteps 

 . of his father, and bringing to bear upon agricultural pursuits a 

 similar degree of care and judgment. 



There were many, in and out of the Council, who said that 

 the Show at Plymouth must be a failure ; that a single line of 

 railroad and an inaccessible locality would prevent the breeders 

 of stock from putting in their usual appearance, and that the 



