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is not very large, he gets an additional allowance of potatoes ; 
his other emoluments are 1/. for helping in harvest time, 1/. 
for lambing time, 2 bushels of malt per annum, and some 
milk from the house every day. The foreman at Ranby boards 
four lads, but several farmers on the Forest still adhere to the 
old system of having the lads in the house. The foreman gets 
his cottage and garden rent free, potatoes found him, and from 
15s. to \%s. per week, with 5 bushels of malt, the milk of one cow, 
and the privilege of buying 60 stones of bacon at 5a-. per stone, 
seconds flour at 2s. per stone, and bread flour at Is. \Qd. For 
boarding the youths he gets 6s. Qd. per week each in money, 
15 stones of bacon, and 5 bushels of malt per lad. 
A good many boys are employed at from 8cZ. to Is. per day. 
Artificial Manures. 
The expenditure on artificial manures by most of the Forest 
farmers is very great ; for instance, Mr. Wilkinson spends at 
Ranby, on a farm of 550 acres, between 1000/. and 1200Z. per 
annum on cake, notwithstanding that his tenant-right claim, 
which is the one general in the district, is not more than one- 
fourth after the first year, and one-eighth after the second. 
Bones are held in great estimation by both landlords and 
tenants, and their use is encouraged by a liberal tenant-right 
agreement all over the forest, namely, first year the whole 
outlay, second year three-fourths of the cost, and third year one- 
third. 
An ingenious system of dissolving bones is carried out at 
Morton Grange, as follows: — About 20 tons of shoddy from 
Dewsbury are bought annually, and mixed with the blood of 
animals slaughtered on the farm ; with this is put 20 qrs. 
of half-inch bones, and sulphuric acid is added at the rate of 
1 cwt. per qr. The mixture is allowed to remain for two or 
three weeks, when another 20 qrs. of bones are added to it and 
the whole thoroughly mixed together. It is then used as required 
for turnips. 
5. The Lodge Farm, Castle Acre, Norfolk, in the occupation of 
Mr, John Hudson.* By H. M. Jenkins. 
This farm consists of 997 acres of land, and was taken by Mr. 
Hudson in the year 1822, together with an adjoining farm of 500 
* Since this report was -written, Mr. Hudson has ceased to hold a place amonpst 
living English agriculturists, and we have riow to mourn the death of one of the 
first exponents and chief illustrators of the principles and practice of high farming. 
