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Turnips are hoed and singled twice over at 7s. M. per acre, 

 mangolds taken up and haled (put into heaps or clamps) at 

 from Is. to 8s. per acre. About 1,100Z. is spent annually on 

 labour, the average wage per labourer, including harvest, being 

 about 16s. to 17s. per week. Purchased foods amount to about 

 600Z. annually. The home-grown produce consumed on the 

 farm is valued at about 400/. per year. 



This is a large light land farm, some of it very poor blowing 

 sand, and consequently much depends upon a good rainfall. 

 It is run chiefly as a sheep and barley producing concern. 

 The land is clean and well managed. Swedes, as has been shown, 

 are the principal root crop, the large acreage of these making a 

 splendid show in early June, all singled, set out, and clean, 

 whatever may have been their fate afterwards in the long 

 drought. It was the all-round good management of this large 

 and very poor farm, with its suitable stock, that gained for 

 Mr. Knight the second position in the award list, and the 

 well-deserved honour of being the highest placed competitor 

 in the county of Norfolk. 



Second Prize Farm in Class II. 

 Occujned by Mr. Anthony Knight, West Newton, King's Lynn. 



This farm consists of 225 acres arable and 100 acres of grass 

 land, and is held on a yearly tenancy under His Majesty the 

 King. 



The cropping is on the four-course system, and in 1911 was 

 as follows : — 60 acres of barley, 10 acres of mangold, 53 acres 

 of swedes, 10 acres of early turnips, 4 acres of cabbage, 22 acres 

 of wheat, 22 acres of oats, and 44 acres of clover " seeds." The 

 barley is undersown with small seeds, consisting of 14 lb. per 

 acre giant red clover and 1 peck of Pacey's perennial rye- 

 grass. 



Wheat and oats are both taken after clover ley, on which 

 ten loads per acre of farmyard manure is applied and ploughed 

 in. Mangolds are manured with eight loads per acre of farm- 

 yard manure and 4 cwt. per acre of West Norfolk mangold 

 manure. The swede crop is entirely manured with West 

 Norfolk turnip manure. 



About 2 acres of vetches are sown on the stubble each 

 year for mowing in July, and these are followed by turnips. 

 If the weather is suitable a piece of land is broken up after 

 clover hay is carted, and sown with white turnips to draw- in 

 winter. The pastures are treated with grass fertiliser, about 

 25 acres being done each year. When the barley crop follows 

 mangolds or cabbages which have been drawn off the land, 

 about 3 cwt. of artificial barley manure is given. 



