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Shepherd's Corner Farm. 



Field No. Lower Ball— Si a. 0 r. 35 p. 



1843. Wheat. 19 acres manured with Lance's humus and bone : a 



very heavy crop of slraw ; the produce of grain 6^ sacks per 

 acre; the sample inferior to the grain of the adjoining piece. 

 15 acres spring nursery wheat 7 J sacks per acre: this was 

 thought to be the best sample of corn that had yet been grown 

 at Shepherd's Corner. 



1844. Two acres potatoes ; ridged and dunged ; the crops 53 bags per 



acre. 13 acres peas: crop 4i sacks per acre. 12 acres rye; 

 fed off by sheep ; the land afterwards drilled to turnips and 

 manured with bones and ashes : *7 acres only gave a good crop 

 of turnips. 1 acres vetches mown for soiling : the land after- 

 wards sown to turnips, which produced a partial crop only. 



1845. Turnips. Manured with dissolved bones and ashes : about two- 



thirds of the field a good crop; the best produce after the peas 

 and potatoes. 



Field No. ^—Bittern Field— 2'^ a. 3 R. 



1843. Two years' ley. 8 acres of it pastured by sheep. 15 a. 3 r. 

 mown for hay : 1 ton per acre of hay. 



1844. Wheat. 8 acres ploughed last autumn, and then dressed with 



Daniell's patent manure, which was covered with a light 

 furrow : the crop only 2^ sacks per acre. 5 a. 3 r. drilled 

 with Chid ham's White Wheat; Daniell's patent manure drilled 

 immediately under the corn : crop 6 sacks per acre. 10 acres 

 folded over by sheep, and drilled with red and white wheat : 

 crop 6 sacks per acre. 



1845. 10 acres common turnips, the land folded over by sheep : a very 



good crop. 13 a. 3 r. swedes; a very good crop. Both lots 

 were manured with a sack of dissolved bones (our first experi- 

 ment with this manure), and mixed with about 40 bushels of 

 ashes per acre. 



Field No, l^Mare Close— 10 a. 2 r. 



1843. Two years' ley. Mown : 1 ton per acre of hay, and then dunged 



for wheat. 



1844. Wheat, red and white, but separate ; a beautiful sample and an 



excellent crop: harvested 9 sacks per acre; lost about 1 sack 

 per acre by the beating of the very rough winds at the time of 

 harvest. 



1845. Self-sown wheat and vetches; an excellent crop; fed off by 



sheep, the land afterwards sown to swedes, and manured with 

 dissolved bones and ashes : being late sown, the swedes were 

 not a heavy crop. 



