Some of the Agricultural Lessons of 18G8, 
53 
September with coleseed and white muslard, and are presenting a full jjlant, 
aud loolv healtliy ; hnt will eat away very ([uicklj-. Wliite mustard has 
afforded as much keeping as anything where sown so late ; hut its liability to 
be destroyed by frost renders it of but little use except for early feeding. 
Several fields of old seeds are left over in consequence of the failure of the 
youug seeds in the stubbles, and the doubt as to whether those resown will 
be strong enough io stand the winter. fSut in this county we are not strictly 
tied to system, so that probably no two men will pursue a like course of crop- 
ping where they have left their old seeils unploughed. I can therefore giv(; 
no definite information as to the future crojiping of such lauds."' 
The following is from Mr. Savidge, of Sarsden, Oxfordsliire : — 
" I never saw at the end of harvest a worse prospect for the flocks an A herds. 
Eut by repeated sowings a good half crop of turnips and other keep has come 
forward, and indeed we have more than a full crop of shed-barley and oats. 
" Abundance of stubble turnips, rape, &c., has been sown for winter and 
early spring feed, and perhaps in no season was such a breadth of white 
mustard planted. Some pieces are remarkablj- fine, but after all it is jMOr 
stuff to make mutton. The young seeds are all but a failure — both spring 
ivnd autunm sowings. Many pieces of old seeds will be allowed to remain to 
cany on the stock through next summer." 
Lastly, from North Lincolnshire, Ivlr. Sowerby, of Aylesby, 
sends the following report : — 
" As to the turnips, our principal gi-eeu crop, they were almost a complete 
failure until the 11th of August, when w^e had the first good rain. About and 
•a few days after that date, I sowed the whole of mine the third time over, and 
they have done remarkably well, but, of course, are only just starting to bulb. 
It all depends upon the next six weeks, and should it keep open weather that 
time we may have more than could have been expected. I do not think I can 
speak quite so favourably of the whole of our district, for I observe a good deal 
-of bare ground. A good deal of white mustard aud rape have been sown 
upon the fallow break, which will aftbrd some autumn food. 
" In many fields the young clovers have failed altogether ; in most cases 
those fields will be sown again with corn, and the one-year seeds be allowed 
to lie another year. This will keep the same quantities of corn and turnips for 
■following years, but alter the course for the present, in one case two crojis of 
com together, and the other, two years' seeds. Time will bring them right, 
only in the meantime the cropping will be altered." 
Among the details of instruction which our correspondents 
.give is the value of cabbages as a cattle food ; the serviceable- 
ness of having seed beds of such plants to prick out should 
other crops fail ; the superiority of early sown stubble-turnips 
in an emergency of this land over mustard, and even, excepting 
clay soils, over rape. There is also the general rule against despair, 
which last year received so remarkable an illustration. The 
prospect was bad enough when Mr. John Hudson wrote to de- 
scribe all the methods he was adopting in the face of it ; but 
before winter had arrived he was able to say that things had 
improved so much that his farm stock would be kept much as 
usual through the winter. Mr. C. Lav/rence, of Cirencester, late 
a member of the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society, has 
