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Coleman cultivators, grubber, Cambridge roller, 4-horse 

 plain roller, 2-horse plain roller, iron drag on wheels, 



2 sets of 4-horse harrows, 3 sets of 2-horse harrows, 



3 sets of chain harrows, drill harrow, Garrett's corn drill, 

 water drill, Tasker's horse hoe, Garrett's horse hoe, turnip 

 scuffler 2 horse rakes, Hornsby reaper, Samuelson's 

 mower, 8-horse power engine, threshing machine, elevator 

 and horse gear, horse gear complete and fixed 

 winnowing machines, Boby's screen, weighing machine 

 Richmond's chaffcutter mounted on wheels, Amies 

 and Barford's grist mills, Amies and Barford's steaming 

 apparatus, Bentall's pulper, Gardner's turnip cutters 

 troughs, hurdles, cribs, rails, lamb creeps, ladders, drag 

 rakes, portable fowl houses, barrows, harness, forks; 

 scythes, water casks, whippletrees, corn bushels, corn 

 scoops, stable baskets, corn bins. Also dairy utensils viz., 

 churn press, barrel churn, cheese tubs, curd breaker, mills, 

 milk refrigerator, milk " churns " (cans), tressels, cheese 

 vats, weighing machine, butter washer, butter tub, butter 

 boards, skimmer. Poultry yards and fittings, Christy's 

 incubator, artificial mother. Also ropes, spades, shovels, 

 baskets, mud scrapers, crowbars, turnip pickers, besoms, 

 turnip knives, plough cords, cart jacks ; riddles, sacks, &c. 



(2) A Midland Dairy Farm. Of 244 acres, 200 are under 

 grass, and 44 under plough. Of the 44 acres, from 8 to 10 

 are annually under green crops viz., 7 acres swedes, 2 

 cabbage, and 1 potatoes and mangels. The rotation of the 

 arable is half way between a four-course and a five-course ; 

 but there is no regular system of succession. Seeds are not 

 taken oftener than once in six years. Wheat is grown only 

 in sufficient quantity to find thatch and a little litter. About 



