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a specimen of large English farming in all its mag- 

 nificence. 



The following is the rotation followed : forty acres in 

 permanent pasture ; of the remaining seven hundred, half 

 is in grain, and the other half in forage crops. The three 

 hundred and fifty acres of grain are thus divided : wheat, 

 two hundred and fifty ; barley forty, and sixty in oats. Of 

 the three hundred and fifty acres in forage crops, twenty 

 are in beetroot ; twelve, turnips ; forty-two, swedes ; six, 

 carrots ; fifty, potatoes ; ten, cabbages ; and the remainder 

 in clover, rye-grass, lucerne, sainfoin, and vetches. This 

 proportion differs a little from that usually followed in 

 England, inasmuch as it gives a greater breadth to wheat 

 and a less to turnips ; but this is owing to the nature of 

 the soil, which is more suitable for wheat than barley, 

 and for roots than green crops. 



Mr Eigden has sold every year, even after the reduc- 

 tion in prices, more than 2400 worth of wheat and 

 barley. The stock he keeps is as follows : three hundred 

 and fifty Southdowns, of the best breed ; twenty tups ; 

 twenty-one milch cows ; twenty-eight farm-horses, and 

 a small number of pigs. He does not fatten sheep, but 

 sells annually about two hundred and fifty lambs of six 

 months, and about a hundred ewes of four years old, which 

 he replaces from his younger stock. This branch of his 

 farming brings him in about 500. On account of the 

 high reputation of his stock, his young lambs fetch 20s. 

 a-piece, and the ewes and rams more than double that 

 price. His milch cows give an average of nearly twelve 

 quarts of milk per day ; this milk sells at Brighton for 2d. 

 per quart, making the return from each cow about 35 

 a-year. Taking into account the sale of calves and fattened 

 cows, this department brings in some 700 or 800. In 

 addition, Mr Eigden must sell about 2000 worth of 



