312 Farm Prize Competition, 1911. 



catch crops on the stubbles or " oUands " (clover ley) during 

 late summer and autumn. 



In 1911 the cropping was as follows : — 50 acres wheat, 100 

 acres oats, 302 acres barley, 120 acres swedes, .55 acres swedes 

 and kale, 5 acres early drumhead cabbage, 240 acres small 

 seeds for hay and feeding (of which 200 acres are sown with 

 mixed seeds and 40 acres with sainfoin), 20 acres mangolds, 11 

 acres vetches, and 11 acres early white turnips. 



On this farm the crops are manured as follows : — Swedes, 

 3 cwt. West Norfolk No. 2 turnip manure ; barley, 3 cwt. 

 West Norfolk barley manure, when considered necessary ; 

 mangolds, ten loads farmyard manure ; wheat, ten loads farm- 

 yard manure ; oats, eight to ten loads farmyard manure, as far 

 as it will go. 



When farmyard manure is scarce, 1 cwt. of nitrate of soda 

 per acre is used as a top-dressing for oats. 



Sheep feed over the " olland " which is coming for oats, and 

 remain on the land right up to the time of ploughing for the 

 seed bed. 



For turnips the land is baulked up and rolled in front of the 

 drill, 2^ pints of seed being sown per acre. The land is rolled 

 again a few days after sowing, and manure is put on the baulk 

 with a Wallace drill, the plough coming behind to make the 

 baulk, the manure being covered in at the same time. Small 

 seeds are sown with a 30-coulter drill immediately behind the 

 corn drill, but across the latter, or " athwart them " in 

 popular Norfolk language. Harrowing then takes place, and 

 rib-rolling also, the idea being to retain the moisture in the 

 sand as much as possible. Sainfoin is sown in a similar 

 manner, immediately behind the corn drill, and harrowed and 

 rolled in. Three bushels of sainfoin are sown per acre, and 

 about 14 lb. of mixed seed. The former is grown for feeding 

 lambs, and is found to be a good change from clover, the 

 lambs usually thriving on it. 



The " small seeds " mixture, usually undersown with the 

 barley crop, is as follows : — 



fi lb. giant hybrid cow-grass "\ 

 3 lb. white clover I per 



3 lb. trefoil or red clover f acre. 



1 peck Italian rye-grass / 



About 30 acres of sainfoin are sown, this crop being taken 

 after turnips and drilled at 3 bushels of seed per acre. Twenty 

 acres Kidney vetch grown for early feed were sown after kale 

 and swedes. 



All small seeds are drilled with a coulter drill as soon as 

 possible behind the corn drill, on account of the dry nature of 

 the soil. 



