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ed. The second spring plowing is done with the broadshare, 

 and after another harrowing and rolling, the manure is carted 

 out and spread, and plowed in six or seven inches deep. Then 

 there is another harrowing and rolling, and the land lies about 

 a fortnight, when, if the weather is dry, the broadshare maybe 

 once more employed. Swede turnips are sown about the first 

 week in July, and white turnips about the third week about 

 half and half of each being grown. If mangolds was the crop, 

 the preparation of the land for it would be similar, except that 

 one plowing would be omitted, as the seed is sown the second 

 week in May. 



The lecture was concluded with an extended and detailed 

 statement of the notes gathered at Burley Hall, the residence 

 of Thomas Horsfall, Esq., whose experiments in stock-feeding 

 and in dairy management have attracted so wide attention. A 

 minute account was given of his fields, meadows, and pasture, 

 of his farm buildings, his dairy room, &c. Upon not quite 

 sixty acres of land he was keeping the following stock : 



Heifers and Bullocks 21 I Old Sheep 64 



Milch Cows 20 I Lambs 106 



Likewise, 4 pigs, 2 horses and a pony. 



Being a total, small cattle and large, of 218 head. 



The interest of this farm is chiefly in its stock and in its grass 

 fields. The sheep (ewes) Mr. Horsfall generally purchases in 

 October, to the number, of say fifty; paying about $11 25 

 apiece. Fifty-nine, a cross of the Cheviot male on Leicester 

 ewes, procured in the autumn of 1858, had brought him the one 

 hundred and -ix lambs he had to sell in 1859. These were sold 

 before the cud of July, the purchaser taking any before if he 

 chose, at about $6 each. The ewes are fattened and sold in 

 the fall, fetching about $12 25 each, being $1 advance on the 

 purchase money, she having brought him during his posses 

 sion of her a lamb and a fleece besides. The bullocks fattened 

 on the farm are bought in April or May, grazed through the 

 summer, stall-fed in the early autumn, and sold in November, 



