Some of the Agricultural Lessons o/lSGS. 
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*' 20 acres steam-cultivated twice for mangolds. 
" 25 acres of clay land, after Italian rje-grass, broken up L\ 
Smith's cultivator ; afterwards ploughed with FovvIerV 
plough for rape and turnips. 
" 17 acres of lighter land, Italian ryc^ - grass, broken up by 
Smith's cultivator, and afterwards crossed for swedes, 
failed ; now turnips — my best crop. 
■ " 23 acres of clay, after vetches ; first cultivated, then ploughed. 
" 23 acres after cabbages, first cultivated, then ploughed ; 15 
acres now turnips and rape. 
" 30 acres of poor clay, after mixed seeds in July ; worked 
with Fowler's plough for wheat. 
" 21 acres, clover, in September ; ploughed with Fowler's 
plough for wheat. 
" 103 acres of wheat stubble, ploughed, and 23 acres of ditto, 
cultivated, for winter beans, cabbages, vetches, rape, 
winter oats, rye, and mangolds (18G9). 
" 23 acres ploughed after mustard for wheat. 
" That is, altogether, 200 acres once ploughed or cultivated, 
and 108 acres twice. 
" Assuredly there could not be a finer season for steam-culti- 
vation than this has been, and all crops upon clay-land in 1869 
will be benefited by the healthy state in which the drought of 
1868 has left it. 
" Harvest of 1868. — The wheat upon all clay soils is now 
known to be very good ; in this district the marls, sands, and 
gravels, are below an average, the crops having ripened prema- 
turely. This applies to barley also. Winter beans are good ; 
spring beans, very bad ; peas, an average crop ; of green crops 
I have said enough. 
" Pray make any use you please of any of these somewhat: 
hastily written notes, and 
" Believe me, very truly yours, 
"C. Eandell. 
"/. C. Morton, Esq." 
111. — Field- Experiments on Clover-seeds and Permanent Pasture. 
By Dr. Augustus Voelcker. 
Ix Vol. II. S. s.. Part 2, I gave a short report of field-experi- 
mrnts on clover, that were made in the years 1864 and 1865. 
Both these years were very dry, and consequently unfavourable 
for field-experiments with artificial manures. Nevertheless the 
