Some of the Ac/ricidtiiral Lessons of ISGS. 
" 25 acres of cabbag^es of difFerent kinds, to bo ready in sur- 
cession, planted upon wheat-stubble well manured in 
the autumn, eaten off in May, June, and Jui^-, and 
planted with swedes, turnips, and rape, 
"15 acres of winter oats and vetches, eaten off early by ewes 
and lambs and ewe tegs, and planted with swedes and 
turnips, 
" 5 acres of late cabbages, to be eatc>n off in August and left 
for V. heat. 
" In this way tho fallow quarter provides a succession of food 
which, with the mixed seeds and an occasional but by no means 
frequent change to a grass field (for the grass land does very 
little more than provide hay and carry the dairy stock and young 
cattle), carries the ewe tegs, ewes, and lambs through the summer, 
and produces sufficient roots to winter the lambs. The wether 
lambs are sold fat at the end of April or early in Ma}' ; 50 or 60 
yearling rams are kept, after finishing the mangolds, on cabbages 
till September. This process has been uninteiTupted — except 
1864 — for several years. But I must depart from the order in 
which your questions stand to follow out the subject of crop- 
ping, and show how the drought of this year has affected me 
and how I have provided for carrying my sheep through the 
approaching winter. 
" In the first place — and for the first time since I have tried 
to grow them — my mangolds, except about 2 acres, entirely 
failed. The field intended for them is naturally a poor piece 
of clay, subject to an unconquerable weed which only clay-land 
farmers know anything about — wild onions. A manuring of 
30 loads per acre in the autumn of 1867, coupled Avith a rather 
deep steam-ploughing and a very mild winter, brought up such 
a crop of these weeds that scarifying only, previous to planting 
the mangolds, was out of the question. It was, therefore, twice 
moved with Smith's steam-cultivator as deep as it had been 
ploughed, in order to get under the onions. The land was thus 
left rough ; it dried through ; we effectually got rid of that 
crop of onions, but no mangolds vegetated. It was subsequently 
scarified and drilled with turnips, but to no purpose ; afterwards 
■with rape, which lay in the ground till we had rain early in 
August. In the same way 70 acres of swedes, turnips, and rape 
also failed ; and at the end of July I found myself with upwards 
of 1000 sheep and lambs, and nothing for them but 5 acres of 
drumhead cabbages, stunted by the dry weather, and 2 acres of 
mangolds. 
" Harvest was finished on the last day of July ; during the 
previous week I had scarified 22 acres of winter-bean stubble, 
and worked down 11 acres of the poor clay fallow after vetches, 
