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The A(jricuUure of StaffordsJdre. 
beneficial in the case of fat subsoil, has been tried without any 
advantage. 
The seeds are generally good, and will " summer " three ewes 
and their progeny, or five dry sheep, per acre. This year they are 
bad, but the season was favourable to growth, and on the 8th of 
June I saw 80 ewes and 150 lambs on a 45-acre field, and 60 
ewes with one lamb each on 22 acres, and neither had had a 
change, or any other food but the seeds, since lambing time in 
April. The sheep looked exceedingly well. I must notice the 
machinery which, Mr. Keeling says, he could not dispense with 
and still continue his system of artificial feeding. A reservoir of 
water above the farm premises, fed by a small stream, drives an 
overshot wheel of 26 feet in diameter, to which the water is con- 
ducted by pipes. 
The machinery and its cost are as follows : — 
£. 
The reservoir puddled with clay .. .. 100 
The water-wheel 75 
The pipes 170 
Thrashing-iuacbiue SO 
Stone-mill 18 
Steel-mill 10 
Chiifl'-cutter 10 
Pulper 10 
Fixing 25 
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Another light-land farm to be noticed is at Pendeford, near 
Wolverhampton ; it was the residence of Mr. W. Pitt, whose 
Report of the Agriculture of Staffordshire, for the Board of 
Agriculture, has been several times referred to. It is now occu- 
pied by Mr. R. H. Masfen, a leading agriculturist in his county. 
The farm consists of 370 acres of light land on hard sandstone 
rock, and of 150 acres of indifferent pasture. The management 
in some respects is that common to the light-land tract. The 
rearing of cattle is a system only pursued in this immediate 
district ; and the use of a large quantity of town dung from 
Wolverhampton is an advantage confined to particular neigh- 
bourhoods, but requiring notice, as it affects the farming of this 
part of the county considerably. 
The usual rotation Is the four-course ; but, as an experiment 
on the clover plant, is modified on part of the farm as follows * : — 
1. Turnips (early) or mangold ; 
2. Wheat; 
* lied clover and Italian rye-grass aloue are sown where the six-course is adopted. 
