Farming of Lincolnshire. 



367 





Acres. 



Crop. 



Acres. 



Yield per Acre, 



Clay JjOBXOf arable » 



8266 



Wheat . 

 Beans 



Oats . . . 

 Clover andl 

 Seeds. j 

 Fallow . 



3632 

 1000 

 500 



1066 



2068 



23 bushels, 



24 * 



48 



The rental is from 25^. to 50^. The principal part of the sand 

 loam, or rich barley soil, is open-field, managed without sheep, 

 and a great part of this is employed for growing vegetable pro- 

 duce for market. The open fields are tilled by innumerable 

 small farmers, who have a rood here and a rood there, laid out in 

 broad curved lands or stetches without any kind of fencing or 

 ditch, the whole resembling a succession of gardens or allotments 

 rather than farms. It is impossible to lay down any regular 

 system of cropping for this section of soil ; but its general pro- 

 duction is wheat, oats, beans, barley, potatoes, onions, carrots, 

 flax, turnip-seed, mown-clover, turnips pulled off — seldom or 

 never consumed on the land. There are no pastured seeds. 

 Wheat is the least profitable of their crops ; on the other hand, 

 the carrots and onions w^th which they supply Doncaster and 

 Sheffield markets are highly remunerative ; success with these 

 crops depending mainly upon good weeding. As much as 25 tons 

 of carrots per acre have been grown, the expense of w^eeding 

 them, however, being very heavy, often 41. iOs. or more per 

 acre. The number of acres under each sort of cropping and the 

 amount of produce is shown in the following synopsis: — 





Acres. 



Crop. 



Acres. 



Yield per Acre. 



Sand Loam, arable . 



6622 



Potatoes . 



1000 



80 sacks, or 8 tons. 







Wheat . . 



1000 



32 bushels. 







Wheat . . 



1297 



28 







Barley . 



775 



40 







Oats . . . 



3S7 



56 







Beans 



388 



24 







Turnips . 



500 









Flax . . 



100 



Oi ton. 







Carrots and) 

 Onions. J 



175 



10 tons. 





1 



Clover . 



1000 





Of about 7272 acres of sand loam 650 acres are in grass. The rent 

 is generally 3Z. or 41. lOs. per acre, but varies from 40^. to lOOs. 

 per acre. West of these high lands is the flat tract of low sand and 

 peat, containing about 13,455 acres, of which 2800 acres are under 



