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May and June at t'lie rate of a bushel of wheat to the acre, with 56 lb. 

 of superphosphate '(on red ground 80 lb. is applied). The crop was 

 fed off with sheep, but, owing to heavy rain, was not harrowed after- 

 wards, as is the usual practice. 



Mr. David Jones showed a fine crop, which was remarkably level 

 and even; it was also very clean under foot. The crop was, however, 

 not so dense as either of the above-mentioned crops, and lost points as 

 a result of the presence of flag-smut. It was grown on a small farm 

 where it is usual to sow equal areas of wheat and oats in rotation. 

 Additional wheat is sown outside on the share system. Owing to labour 

 difficulties since the war, the wheat on share has <had to ibe curtailed, and 

 the growing of oats on the farm temporarily abandoned and wheat sub- 



A Crop of Leatherhead at Mr. R. Blackwood's Farm. 



stituted. The present crop is sown on a fallow from which, in the 

 previous year, a 39-bushel crop of wheat was obtained. The land was 

 ploughed dry in March, then harrowed, grazed with sheep, and scarified 

 in October. The roughest part was again cultivated, and the whole 

 scarified up and sown in June with one bushel of select pedigree Federa- 

 tion wheat and 56 lbs. of manure. This crop was eaten off till the end 

 of August. 



