MR SHEAFF S FARM. 113 



and about one o clock we drove up to Mr 

 SheafFs mansion. 



He very readily and obligingly undertook 

 to show me his farm. It consists of 300 

 acres, and I at once discovered from the ap 

 pearance of the land that he manages in a su 

 perior style. His crops are wheat, rye, Indian 

 corn, oats, potatoes and clover, with a small 

 portion of pasturage, all cultivated in a master 

 ly manner, and the land particularly clean. 



Mr Bloomfield, one of the Earl of Leices 

 ter s principal tenants, and, of course, a crack 

 farmer, who visited here three or four years 

 ago, was greatly taken with Mr SheafFs agri 

 cultural operations, and declared that his farm 

 exhibited, in his opinion, the only instance of 

 anything approaching a regular English sys 

 tem of husbandry he had met with in the 

 States. 



Mr SheafPs crops of wheat are now ready to 

 be mowed, and although their appearance is very 

 fine, he tells me he seldom averages more than 

 thirty bushels per acre ; that over the whole of 



