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worked in seven years' rotation ; and in 1877 — a miserably wet season 

 — 24 tons. Only a section of three or four acres in that field had 

 Kape-seed broadcasted in the third week of August, where the plants 

 were too open. 



"In the other field, close by the sea-shore, all Swedes, two acres 

 were drifted out and resown, and, you will recollect, sown with 

 yellows, and were thinned just three days previous to the first attack, 

 and completely perished ; those two acres, and perhaps over five or six 

 additional, Eape-seed was sown to cover the ground, and give feeding 

 for the sheep ; and all over that field the result of storing 1st of this 

 month just gave the same result as to tonnage as No. 1. The foliage 

 in this field was immense, but the roots are not half the usual size. 



" The next field should have been all Potatoes, but only half of it 

 was planted, 10 acres ; the other half was made yellow Turnips for 

 sheep-folding, and it was in that 10-acre lot I first discovered the 

 enemy. We left this field on the Tuesday evening, and were two days 

 absent in stackyard ; I went back to it on the Friday morning, and 

 found it a wreck. Shortly, there, after it was mostly harrowed level 

 and resown, as a test, perhaps three acres were left where the best 

 plants were ; but the result was that Rape-seed was broadcasted over 

 the whole 10 acres, and the sheep have just left the field after a safe 

 and satisfactory sojourn of four weeks of 330 hoggets. We carted off 

 perhaps 40 single horse-loads of roots where we thought there was too 

 much feed ; that field is fine, natural, friable loam, and used to grow 

 very heavy roots. 



" Still a fourth case, where 10 acres of Oats perished by the long 

 drought, and the cattle and sheep were folded over it ; these ploughed 

 and made fine, and dressed with 5 cwt. per acre of super., bone-meal, 

 and nitre. These were thinned, but never got farther ; drought and 

 moth cleared the lot, all except two acres. We then sowed Rape-seed, 

 but it was late, the land a yellow clay-loam, the autumn cold, and wet ; 

 it did not get up so rich feeding as the other fields. None of them 

 were extra dressed ; they were all dunged heavily, 20 to 30 tons muck 

 per acre, and from 4 to 6 cwt. of my compound sown with the seed." 



Siumnary of the above by Mr. Swan. — " You will note I have no light 

 to throw on extra dressing after the moth had been, or whilst still in 

 force, in the field ; and, so far as my observation goes, nowhere has 

 much or any return been obtained from it, if the land was dunged and 

 dressed at seeding. I think my reseeding and Rape-seeding has done 

 better for both the condition of the land and the feeding of the sheep. 

 I can only say that in 50 years' actual practice the Diamond-back has 

 hit the heaviest blow I have experienced." — J. S. 



Estate Office, H/iddo lloiiac, Aberdeen, N.B. From Mr. George 

 Muirhead, Agent for the Earl of Aberdeen, with specimens accom- 



