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turned out 24 bushels per acre.* It is now sown with wheat : 

 the presser was used ; and the wheat is looking well. The land 

 is quite flat^ and no failure whatever in the draining has occurred. 



No. 2. — Wheat 1840 : a pretty level crop, with the exception 

 of about two acres injured by the wire-worm. I estimate it alto- 

 gether averaging 20 bushels per acre. The field is now ploughed 

 for turnips ; about 8 acres are ploughed a foot deep, and the 

 remainder 9 inches. The subsoil turns up quite mellow, and it is 

 now near four years since this field was drained and subsoil- 

 ploughed : no part of the draining has failed. The wet perco- 

 lates into the drains where it falls, and the land is perfectly dry 

 and sound. 



No. 3. — Barley 1839, very similar to No. 1; and the season 

 was so wet and unfavourable that the produce was stacked to- 

 gether ; and the average of No. 1 with this turned out to be 

 24 bushels per acre : the clover and rye-grass the same, 20 

 cwt. per acre. It is now sown with wheat, and the presser 

 was used : the wheat is looking well, and the land quite flat, and 

 perfectly sound, with every prospect of a fine crop. 



No. 4. — Barley 1840^ succeeding turnips; the crop good, 

 which I estimate at about 35 bushels per acre. It is seeded 

 with a mixture of clover and rye-grass, and there is a good stock 

 on the ground. The barley was lodged in some parts, and rather 

 injured the seeds. The ground is quite flat, clean, and perfectly 

 satisfactory. 



No. 5. — This field varies much in the surface, as well as the 

 subsoil. I have before stated the whole was deep-ploughed after 

 wheat (1839), worked for, and sown with, turnips, 1840, a 

 good crop, with the exception of about three acres, which were 

 much thinned by the slug : the whole is eaten on the land by 

 sheep. The field is now in a good state, and likely to produce a 

 good crop of barley. 



No. 6. — The wheat upon this field, as I stated in my last 

 report, turned out bad, from being so much lodged and sprouted ; 

 a great portion of it was given to the pigs and poultry. It was 

 ploughed 9 inches deep, and prepared for turnips (swedes), which 

 were sown from the 5th to the 12th June : about three-fourths 

 of the field, bone manure was used to the extent of about 12 cwt. to 

 an acre ; and on another portion, the sweepings of Ludlow streets, 

 about 15 tons to an acre; also a part vi'ith fold manure: the 

 whole of the crop exceedingly good, with the exception of about 

 an acre and a half, which was thinned a good deal by the wire- 

 worm and rooks ; howtrver, the crop has been much admired. 



* Clover and rye-grass sown in the barley, a good crop, cut for fodder^ about 20 cwt. 

 per acre. 



