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The implements of the farm include : 4 waggons, 6 

 carts ; 5 ploughs ; 1 ridge or banking plough ; 2 horse- 

 hoes ; 2 scarifiers ; 1 iron roller ; 1 Crosskill roller ; heavy 

 iron drags ; duckfoot drag ; 2 sets iron harrows ; turnip 

 and manure drill ; 3 turnip cutting machines ; 2 hay- 

 making machines ; 1 horse roller ; hay and straw elevator ; 

 2 mowing machines ; oilcake crusher ; winnowing machine ; 

 threshing machine, chaffcutter, root pulper, corn crusher, 

 and cider mill all worked by a 4-horse power turbine 

 wheel. 



70 dozen hurdles, 20 sheep racks ; 20 troughs ; heel 

 rakes ; ladders ; hay and dung forks, &c. 



Arable land at present (August,) under the following 

 crops : 38 acres wheat, 20 do. oats ; 5 do. barley ; 15 do. 

 beans ; 19 do. swedes and turnips ; 5 do. mangold ; 2 do* 

 potatoes and cabbage ; 13 do. fallow after vetches fed off. 



(8) A Worcestershire Arable Farm. We take one ex- 

 ample from the Blue Books of the Eoyal Agricultural Commis- 

 sion. Mr. C. Eandell employs a capital of ^11,500, on the 

 Chadbury Farm, near Evesham, of 675 acres, comprising 

 390 arable, and 175 pasture and meadow. Two-thirds are 

 clay, and the remainder lighter land. He keeps 23 farm 

 horses, besides hackneys 30 cows (their produce being 

 kept, and some 30 fat -beasts sold every year), and a flock 

 which in winter time amounts to 750 home-bred ewes and 

 tegs, and 200 purchased sheep, the sale amounting to 350 

 fat sheep, 60 rams, and 70 ewes annually. 



The Labour Bill of the farm amounts to from 58s. to 

 60s. per acre wages being 13s. 6d. a week in winter, 15s. 

 a week in summer, and 30s. a week during harvest. A 

 summary of the annual balance-sheet, described as the 



