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carried to long stacks, the length of which is gradually increased 
as the crop comes in. These stacks have rounded or " cuUis " 
ends, which are thus capable of being thatched, the gables being 
consequently avoided. In North Lincolnshire there is a great 
objection to gable or square-ended stacks. All the barley is sold 
for malting. 
Oats. — As a rule the spring corn at Rothwell consists entirely 
of oats, which are consumed by the cart-horses on the different 
farms. 
Oats are sown about the same time as barley ; but, as they do 
not suffer so much as the latter from being sown either too late 
or too early, the period of sowing has a wider range. In other 
respects their cultivation is precisely the same as that of barley. 
About 4 bus. of black Tartarian oats are sown to the acre. 
The system of harvesting is also the same as already described 
above. 
4. Seeds. — For summer grazing the following quantities, sub- 
ject to slight variations, are sown per acre : — 16 lbs. white Dutch, 
G lbs. trefoil, 2 lbs. plantain, 2 lbs. parsley, and on the higher 
land half-a-peck of rye-grass. At Rothwell more trefoil is 
sown, and less white Dutch, the high exposed chalk-land 
being considered less favourable for white Dutch clover than 
more sheltered and stronger soils. For mowing, 14 lbs. of red 
clover are sown with a quarter of a peck of rye-grass. About 
•one-fourth of the seeds only are sown for mowing, so that red 
clover is not grown more than once in 16 years, and clover- 
sickness is not prevalent in consequence. 
The seeds are drilled across barley, oats, or turnip-land wheat, 
the coulters being let down where the land has not been Cam- 
bridge-rolled. After sowing the land is lightly harrowed. No 
manure is put on the seeds, and occasionally tares are sown in 
place of them. 
The red clover is mown with the scythe, the mowing- 
machine being very little used in consequence of flints and other 
stones being so abundant ; otherwise it is treated and used 
exactly the same as the meadow-grass, and is similarly put 
through the chaff-cutter before being used. 
Vetches. — From 12 to 14 pecks are sown early in the autumn 
<>n wheat-stubble, instead of seeds, with a little wheat or rye to 
hold up the crop. Most of them are got as soon as ready, and 
used for the cart-horses, after having been put through the chafF- 
<;utter with a little straw ; the remainder are folded off in suc- 
cession by sheep during the spring and summer. 
Beans and peas are not much grown, but occasionally beans are 
grown on the strong land at Aylesby instead of seeds, the drills 
being 26 inches apart. 
