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Farm Reports. 
Grass-land. 
The permanent pasture consists of about 200 acres of 
marsli-land at Immingham and Stallingborough, 300 acres at 
Aylesby and Riby, and a small " sanatorium " of 16 acres 
at RothwL'll. It is all old pasture, except about 60 or 70 acres at 
]iiby. Tins was laid down after two successive crops of turnips, 
the land (a light gravelly loam) having been well limed previous 
to the first crop. The turnips were eaten off by sheep, and a 
seedsman's mixture of small seeds was sown the next year with 
barley. This new pasture has been much used for lambing-ewes, 
which have eaten on it a large quantity of mangolds, swedes, 
corn, and cake ; and it is considered that the absence of mosses 
is to be attributed chiefly to this treatment. 
Some portion of the old pasture is annually top-dressed in 
rotation with from five to six loads of compost per acre, mixed 
with foldyard manure ; and frequently quantities of wheat-chaff 
from the threshing-machine ai'e scattered over it. The marsh-land 
is chiefly used for grazing and feeding purposes, oilcake being 
frequently given on it. At Aylesby and Riby the pastures are 
stocked with the breeding flock. No horses are ever put on grass. 
The permanent meadow-land is all old, and consists of from 
40 to 50 acres ; it is annually top-dressed with five or six loads of 
foldyard manure, or with compost, and it occasionally receives a 
dressing of guano, from 2 to 3 cwt. to the acre. Mowing and 
haymaking machines are used for getting in the crop ; and the hay 
is put up in round ricks. All the hay is chopped before used. 
Occasionally the mower is put over some portion of the pas- 
tures in June, so as to get better grass for lamb-keeping. 
Arable-land. 
The shift at Rothwell and Riby is the ordinary four- 
course system, with the exception that a small portion of the 
earliest fed-off turnip-land at Riby is sown with wheat instead of 
barley. At Riby barley is the only spring corn, while at Roth- 
well oats are usually grown. At Aylesby the Wold land is 
managed similarly to that at Riby ; but the strong clay land, 
Avhlch has been drained and limed, is, as a rule, sown with wheat 
every alternate year. 
The following tabular statement of the courses of cropping 
at the different farms will make the system intelligible at a 
glance : — 
KOTinvEi.L. Rtrv. Aylesby Wold. Aylesby Clay. 
1st year. Wheat. Wheat. Wheat. Wheat. 
2ii(l ,, Turnips. Turnips. Turnips. Roots. 
3r(l „ Oats or barley. Barley or wheat. Barley or wheat. Wlieat. 
4th „ Seeds. Seeds. Seeds. Seeds or tares. 
