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it accumulates. They are very cheaply and simply 

 made with home wood, thatched, the walls of inter- 

 laced wicker-work. The calves are fed on the hay 

 mixture, and as many cut turnips as they can eat. 

 They were in a very thriving state. The year-olds are 

 kept in sheds and open courts, twenty or thirty in each, 

 fed on turnips and straw. The two-year-olds live partly 

 in small courts with sheds, three or four in each, but 

 principally housed in loose-boxes. They get turnips 

 three times a-day, besides the cut hay mixture. They 

 were very thriving cattle. 



A sheep-shed has just been completed, in which 

 about 200 sheep will be fed this season on Mr Hux- 

 table's plan. The sheep were clipped before being put 

 in, and yielded Is. 3d. worth of wool each. 



The horses are fed on cut hay, 70 lb. each of white 

 carrots, and a few pounds of oats daily. 



Mr Jeffryes sows his wheat on clover lea, using 

 furrow pressers, without which he thinks it would 

 be imprudent to sow it at all after grass or clover. 

 The Suffolk drill is used for sowing after fallow 

 or green crops, where the land is loose. For winter 

 beans, which are now coming up, the stubble is dunged, 

 and the seed sown in every third furrow, the surface 

 being harrowed afterwards. 



The soil generally is a red gravelly turnip soil, rest- 

 ing on a very stiff and obdurate subsoil. It is being 

 drained 4 feet deep and 21 feet apart. The cutting, 

 which is very hard to do, costs 6d. per rood of 18 feet. 



The land would let here at 20s. to 30s. an English 

 acre, rates 4 s. to 7s. an acre more. Any quantity of 



