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The accompanying plan and sections show the manner in which the 

 farm is laid out and the sewage distributed. 



The entire farm was fallow all the winter, and was only gradually brought 

 under cultivation in spring and summer. 



Of Plot A (Plate I.), the beds from 1 to 10, both inclusive, were sown with 

 Italian rye-grass on March 19th, and beds 11 to 20, both inclusive, were sown 

 a week later. From these together, equal to 6"68 acres, five crops have already 

 been cut, and the sixth is now growing. The average weight of the crops has 

 been, however, small, not exceeding 6| tons each per acre, owing to the dense 

 growth of weeds (especially " chickweed "), which abnost smothered the grass, 

 the farm having been long neglected, and the ground being full of the seeds 

 of weeds. Bed 21, containing '39 of an acre, was sown on April 27th with 

 "Savoy" cabbages for planting out. Beds 22 to 28, with the lower half of 

 29, which were chiefly old meadow-land broken up, and included two lines 

 of old hedge-row, could only be imperfectly cultivated; they were, how- 

 ever, sown on the 27th of April with seedii of a small kind of cabbage, 

 known as bunching-greens, or rosette cabbage, more properly coleworts. 

 These beds comprised 3-5 acres, and besides furnishing plants enough for 

 7-25 acres in plots C, E, N, and P, produced 470,000 plants for sale, which 

 realized £35 5s., and further supplied 3240 full-grown plants for market, 

 which realized an additional sum of £4 10s. 



The whole of Plot A wiU shortly be filled with winter crops. 



In Plot B, beds 1 and 2, equal to 0-972 of an acre, were sown with early 

 " horn " carrots, which were sold for £19 10s. in the ground. The carrots 

 were sown on March 25th, and were taken out of the ground in the first 

 week in August ; these beds are now sown with Italian rye-grass for cutting 

 next year. Bed No. 3, 0*486 of an acre, was planted with potatoes on 

 April 2nd ; the potatoes were of three kinds — the Bovinia, a large cattle po- 

 tato, the early llose, a new American variety, and the ordinary Dalmahoy, 

 The potatoes are not yet all off the ground, but they appear particularly 

 fine. Bed No. 4, equal to 0'486 of an acre, was sown on the 2nd of April 

 with " broad Windsor " beans, which were sold for £4 10s., the buyer pick- 

 ing them and leaving the straw. 



Beds No. 5 to 8 inclusive, equal to 1'96 acre, were sown in the first week in 

 April with " Champion " peas for eating green, which were sold in July for 

 £30, the buyer picking them and leaving the straw. 



Beds 4 to 8 inclusive are now sown with Italian rye-grass, Beds 9 to 

 17 inclusive were sown on April 19th with Italian rye-grass, and the fifth 

 crop is now being cut. It should here be mentioned that the rye-grass not 

 required for the horses on the farm has obtained a ready sale at £1 per ton 

 on the ground, partly to the neighbouring farmers for their horses, and 

 partly to London cowkeepers. 



In Plot C, beds 1 to 8 inclusive, 2-75 acres were planted on July 2nd 

 with greens transplanted from Plot A, which are now being sold at about 

 £25 per acre. Beds 9 to 23 inclusive, about 4 acres, were sown with 

 white turnips on May 6th ; but Plot C, being exceedingly stony, little better 

 than a bed of shingle, the slope below the contour line exceedingly rapid 

 and steep, and comparatively few of the seeds surviving the excessive 

 drought and frosty nights, the result was that only £25 could be obtained 

 for this crop in the ground. 



The major part of Plot D, equal to 10-7 acres, was drilled with mangold 

 wurzel as late as May the 14th, and the crop nevertheless promises to yield 

 from 40 to 45 tons per acre. The lower part of plot D (2 acres) was 



