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On the Farming of Middlesex. 
swedes were not then cultivated, and mangold was unknown as 
a crop. 
Of green and root crops tlie Parliamentary Return gives tlie 
following account : — 
Vetches, 
ucern 
cither 
Turnipi 
and 
Swedes. 
ILuigold. 
1866 .. 
1867 .. 
2737 
1882 
2302 
2216 
li^rc FjUow. 
1437 
1698 
Cabbage, , 
Carrots. Kolil Rubi, i-"cerne ; .^.^j^, 
and Rape. „ 
Green Crops. 
79 .. 719 .. 3930 .. 11,204 
36 .. 871 .. 2879 .. 9,582 
Decrease 
l,62i 
1806 .. 
1867 .. 
1314 
1031 
Hops. 
4 
Clover and 
Artificial 
Gr:issfs. 
5182 
5734 
Increase 
Permanent, 
Pasture, 
and IMeadow. 
71,143 
72,068 
925 
The difference in tlie two years is a decrease in the arable, 
•and an increase of grass cultivation, with a decrease of area 
cultivated on the whole ; a like decrease being only to be found 
in the counties of Durham and Surrey'. The double cropping 
/)f fallows is not noticed. There is, however, an increase in 
i:lover and artificial grasses. 
Arable Farms. 
There are many large occupations on which the ordinary 
arable treatment is modified by the application of a market garden 
element to some part of the produce ; in others, this element 
is scarcely to be traced. 
Take as an instance of the first of these, a farm within 7 
miles of Charing Cross, nearly equally divided between the 
London Clay and the loam and gravel ; consequently half grass- 
land and half arable. The grass-land is farmed on the system 
common in the county, and l)efore described as hay-farming. 
Ten neat cattle and no sheep are kept, therefore a great propoi- 
■tion of the hay is sent to London, usually under contract or 
agreement for manure as back carriage. The short distance to 
London enables the teams to make two journeys, and return two 
loads of dung to one of produce. The same arrangement is 
made as to a part of the straw from the arable land, which is 
also sent to the London market. 
The arable portion of the farm is on the gravel not here 
•covered with a great depth of the loam or brick earth, yet 
(ertWe and well fitted for corn and green crop cultivation. Tiie 
rotation of crops is of a most elastic character. As the quality 
of wheat and its straw is valuable, it is grown as often as may 
'be in preponderance to other white corn crops. Tares, rye, 
