48 Experiments for determining the Manures 
as I am also convinced that the turnip crops grown here 
fall very far short in weight of even the lowest upon the 
farms inspected and reported on, I cannot but think that a 
short abstract of the system pursued, and of the results pro- 
duced, both as regards the combination of the farmers and 
the cultivation of their farms, may be acceptable to the 
agriculturists of Van Diemen’s Land. 
The Report commences with a brief sketch of the results 
produced by a system of careful measuring and weighing all 
the products of the farm, the object being, of course, to get 
at the precise results of experiments made with different 
manures, of different modes of feeding stock, &c.; and these 
are illustrated by examples. It appears that at the sheep 
and cattle show at Lockerby, in 1834, there was only one 
sheep which reached 120 lbs.; next year some reached 
140 lbs.; and the average of the best lot of twenty was 
120 Ibs. Gradually the average rose of every sort of sheep ; 
and for some years the top lots have reached 160 and 
180 Ibs. : 
Premiums were given, and experiments made on increase 
of weight by different modes of feeding, quantities of grain 
consumed, &c. In all, the real weight of mutton produced 
was determined. 
The Report, which forms the substance of the paper, was 
the result of a wish to carry out the principle of determining 
the value of agricultural produce by weight and measure- 
ment on the part of the Annandale Farmers’ Club. A com- 
mittee of inspectors was appointed, whose duty it was to 
inspect a number of the turnip-fields in the district, not for 
the purpose of competition among the farmers, but to give 
general information as to the real produce of the district, and 
to elicit useful information, by comparing the weights of pro- 
duce of different fields under varying circumstances. Thirty- 
