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Barley follows the turnips, and is not specially manured. The 

 seeds mixture consists of 5 lb. red clover, 3 lb. cow-grass, 2 lb. 

 alsike, 1 lb. trefoil, 5 lb. white clover, and 4 lb. Italian 

 rye-grass. The seeds are left down for one year only, and all 

 pastured. Oats after seeds do not receive any special manure. 

 Mangolds and potatoes receive 20 loads farmyard manure, 

 4 cwt. superphosphate, 2 cwt. kainit, and 1 cvvt. sulphate of 

 ammonia. Mangold ridges are made after harvest, about 16 

 tons of manure per acre put in the ridges, and well ploughed 

 in, with three horses in digger, about Christmas ; harrowed 

 down in the spring, and \ ton of ground lime, 4 cwt. super- 

 phosphate, 2 cwt. kainit, and 1 cwt. sulphate of ammonia 

 per acre applied. After singling out, 1 cwt. nitrate of lime is 

 given. 



Swedes receive about 14 tons of manure, 15 cwt. ground 

 lime, 4 cwt. superphosphate, 3 cwt. kainit, and, in the spring, 

 1 cwt. sulphate of ammonia or nitrate of soda per acre. 



The wheat or oats following mangolds or potatoes is not 

 specially manured. Wheat after oats receives about 8 tons of 

 manure per acre when available. If not available, it receives 

 3 cwt. superphosphate applied in Febi'uary as a top-dressing, and 

 1 cwt. nitrate of soda or nitrate of lime in April. The second 

 white crop, generally oats, receives 1 ton of guano spread over 

 6 or 7 acres. One-third of the turnips is fed on the land, and 

 two-thirds are drawn off for the cattle. 



About one-third of the mowing land receives 8 loads 

 farmyard manure per acre each year, and in the month of 

 April 1 cwt. nitrate of lime. The remainder receives 3 cwt. 

 superphosphates, 2 cwt. kainit, and 1 cwt. of nitrate of soda. 



In 1909 the pasture land (24 acres) received a light dressing 

 of salt ; in 1910 about ^ ton of lime ; and receives a few loads 

 of manure every year where required. The same land is 

 hayed each year, and the pasture is kept as such. 



The cropping this year consisted of 10 acres of wheat, 

 1 acre of tares for horses, 5 acres pastured seeds, 8 acres 

 turnips, 5 acres mangolds, 3 acres potatoes, 8 acres barley, and 

 10 acres oats. 



The horses are kept in good working order, and receive 

 daily, in winter, hay, crushed oats, molassine meal, chopped 

 oat straw, and two swede turnips ; in summer they have grass 

 and tares. There are eight horses on the farm, six of them 

 being home-bred. 



There are thirty-four cattle, seven milk cows (three of 

 them purchased), young stock of all ages (fourteen purchased 

 as calves, and thirteen bred). Three-fourths of them are a 

 cross-breed of Shorthorn type, and the remainder Black Angus 

 and Shorthorn cross. 



