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keepers of horses prefer Timothy to rye grass where there is a 

 heavy draught. If a division of a farm is kept in timothy for 

 some years where hay is not sold, it provides winter food for the 

 horses and allows the other grass breaks to be depasturised the first 

 year, and this always secures a better pasture in the following 

 years than when hay is cut the first season. 



Rotation on " easy " soils and black soils. Different methods 

 are followed according to the situation and locality. The ordinary 

 six shift: -- three years pasture, with oats, turnips, and oats or 

 barley is known to all. In some districts a seven shift is practised: 

 two years grass, oats, potatoes, wheat, turnips, and barley. .Then 

 there is also the close six shift : barley sown out with grass and 

 clover seeds, hay, oats, potatoes, wheat and turnips. 



The author speaks next of the potato growing to which some- 

 times the half of the farm is devoted. In order to secure an early 

 and abundant crop, growers sprout their seed in boxes. 



In certain districts catch-crops are greatly in vogue. One of the 

 most noticeable features in the cropping of land during the last 

 half century is what could be called the want of cropping or the 

 laying of land down to permanent pasture. 



A Royal Prize Farm. The Farmer and Stock Breeder. London, 

 July 18, 1910. 



The second prize in Class II of the Royal Prize Farm Contest 

 for holdings chiefly arable of not les than 50 acres and under 150 

 acres exclusive of fell or tidal marsh land, was awarded to Stanley 

 Farm, Ormskirk. The soil is cropped as follows: Potatoes 42 

 acres, oats 30 acres, wheat 42 acres, clover and ryegrass 18 acres. 

 Of permanent pastures there are 10 acres ; gardens, orchards one 

 acre. The stock comprises six milking cows, five heifers, five calves, 

 a bull, ten pigs, six working horses, three colts and a pony. The 

 rotation followed is: potatoes, wheat, oats, then seeds for one or 

 two years. The greater portion of the farm has been marled and 

 all of it has been recently limed. 



J. H. PRIESTLEY, Electro-Culture: Overhead Electrical Dis- 

 charges and Plant Growth. Journal Board of Agriculture. 

 April 1910, p. 1 6. 



" It is owing to the enterprise and energy of Mr J. D. Newman 

 that trials of the overhead discharge method upon a large scale 



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