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The clover ley is left down for one year, being twice 

 mown. Eight acres of clover were very good, about 1| tons 

 to the acre being the average yield. This received 15 tons 

 per acre of farmyard manure in the spring. The seed mixture 

 consists of per acre : 1 stone of English red clover and 1 

 pint of trefoil. 



The land intended for mangolds receives about 16 tons 

 farmyard manure and 5 cwt. mangold manure per acre. 

 Golden Tankard and Golden Globe are the varieties generally 

 grown, the seed being sown at the rate of 7 lb. per acre on 

 ridges 32 in. apart, and singled out at not more than 12 to 

 15 in. in the rows. Mr. Turner does not believe in top- 

 dressing after singling, as he does not think the roots keep 

 as well. 



The barley stubble intended for beans receives farmyard 

 manure. The land coming barley gets 5 cwt. per acre super- 

 phosphate or special barley manure, according to whether the 

 roots had super or a compound manure. 



The pasture land receives 6 cwt. of basic slag per acre 

 every other year. 



The cattle consist of three cows, in-milk or in-calf, 

 twenty-three young bullocks (four of which are home bred), 

 one very good Shorthorn stock bull and about forty pigs of 

 various ages. 



The bullocks are generally bought ten or twelve at once 

 in the autumn, most of them being two-year-olds. They run 

 out on the pastures and are brought into the yards to finish 

 for sale in the spring and summer. The cattle receive man- 

 golds and cut chaff, with corn, bean meal, lentils, maize and 

 linseed cake as concentrated feeding stuffs. They are fed 

 three times a day — at 7 a.m., 11.30 a.m. and about 4.30 p.m. 

 About 100 sheep are bought early in July and sold early 

 in November, roc^iving, while on the farm, cake, bran, and split 

 beans. On such feeding they go out as " forward " stores. 



Seven Large Black sows are kept and crossed with Large 

 White boars. About 100 store pigs are fatted off each year, 

 a few being bred and the remainder purchased at about eight 

 weeks old. The rations consist of tail corn and purchased 

 meal. 



The poultry, which are under the care of Mrs. Turner, con- 

 sist of White Leghorns, Sussex and Black Minorcas, with a flock 

 of guinea-fowl and a few turkeys for Christmas feeding. 

 The stock were a very nice looking lot. 

 Five very useful cart-horses are kept and three young 

 horses to take the place of the older ones when they are sold. 

 They are bought in as yearlings or two-year-olds and sold 

 at six or seven years old for towai work. 



