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5. Barlerj or Wlieat. — The land for barley is steam-plouglied 
in the autumn and left until the beginning of March, when it is 
run over with a two-horse skim, and sown with 3 bushels of 
Golden Drop or Chevalier barley per acre. The seed-bed is 
rolled as soon as possible, and sown by a seed-barrow with 16 lbs 
of broad clover and 4 lbs. of trefoil per acre. 
Mowing barley is done at Zs. per acre ; it is seldom sheafed, 
and carrying and stacking are done by the usual farm labourers 
as day work. 
The wheat in this course is treated in the same manner as after 
broad clover ; but in the spring, after hoeing, it is sown by a 
Holmes's seed-drill with \ bushel Italian ryegrass, 8 lbs. of white 
Dutch clover, and 4 lbs. of trefoil. 
6. Seeds. — Broad clover is generally mown about the be- 
ginning of June, just as it is coming into bloom ; afterwards 
the sheep are folded on it with a little corn or cake, and as soon 
as it is eaten off, the land is steam-ploughed for wheat. 
The ryegrass and seeds are grazed until July, when the land 
is prepared for wheat as already stated, it being considered 
highly injuiious to keep ryegrass on the ground after the 1st of 
July. 
Broad clover being taken only on half this course, it comes 
only once in twelve years, and thus clover-sickness is avoided ; 
but Mr. Bomford has never found clover to fail on the few 
occasions when he has sown it upon barley which has imme- 
diately succeeded wheat 
n. Light Land Crops. 
1. Wheat. — On the light land wheat is taken : — 
(a.) After swedes or mangolds drawn off. 
(6.) After rape and turnips sown upon winter beans, 
(a.) The mangolds are drawn off first, and the swedes soon 
after, all the roots being got in by the end of November. The 
land is then steam-ploughed immediately, and the wheat sown 
as on the strong land previously described. Early in March it 
is top-dressed with a mixture of artificial manures, consisting of 
^ cwt. of guano, f cwt. of nitrate of soda, and 1 cwt. of super- 
phosphate, put on with Smyth's manure distributor. The after 
management and harvesting are for this and the following course 
of wheat the same as on strong land. 
{b). This belongs to course No. 3 in this shift, but may as 
conveniently be disposed of here. The sheep having eaten off 
the rape and turnips (receiving on the land two meals of chaff 
and a small admixture of pulped roots, as well as some corn or 
cake) by about the last week in November, the land is steam 
ploughed immediately, and the seed, consisting of 2 bushels 
