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about 24 inches from the bottom of the furrows, and the rest was 
drained in 1868, before the barley was sown, at least 1 foot deeper. 
The difference in the seeds in the two portions was very pro- 
minent, the boundary-line being sharp and distinct, and the 
comparison very much in favour of the deeper draining. These 
seeds will be eaten off and the land fa^l lowed for wheat. 
WoodcoclCs Ground. — At present it comprises 45 acres, but 
two years ago it was in four fields. The first portion, mea- 
suring 22 acres, is barley following wheat. The second part, a 
small piece of 4 acres, is mangolds after wheat, and has been 
dressed with 100 yards per acre of burnt soil from the hedge- 
rows, as well as with 4 cwt. per acre of artificial manure. 
The third part, 12 acres, was a poor pasture, but it has been 
broken up, and is this year sown with oats. Tlie fourth por- 
tion comprises 7 acres, and has received a special treatment. 
The land was very foul, and required a thorough cleaning and 
cultivating. The first step taken was to sow it with spring 
vetches ; these have been dressed with 1^ cwt. of guano per acre, 
and will be eaten off by sheep. The sheep having eaten off the 
crop and well trodden the land, it will be broken up by the steam- 
cultivator, and 100 yards of burnt soil per acre will then be put 
on. The crop of vetches will not pay for sowing and dressing, 
except as a cheap means of enabling the land to be thoroughly 
cleaned, as weeds die in the clods that are turned up by the culti- 
vator if the ground has been well trodden; and the most important 
question here was, how to clean so foul a bit of land. 
The Wey Leys and the Five Leys comprise about 14 acres 
of poor grass, which have just been drained preparatory to being 
broken up and thrown into Woodcock's Ground. 
The Long Ground, of 16 acres, has been in pasture for the 
last thirty years ; but it will also be broken up and the hedges 
stubbed, it has been thoroughly drained this spring, and is now 
ready to be cast down by horse-ploughing. 
The remainder of the farm is either old pasture or meadow. 
7. — Bulbridge and Ugford, near Salisbury ; in the occupation of 
Mr. James Rawlence. 
These farms occupy a strip of land situated on the north and 
south slopes of the valley of the Nadder ; the sole of the valley, 
which consists entirely of water-meadows at this point, forming ,t. 
kind of neutral ground between the two. The farms are about 2^ 
miles in length, from north to south, and the greatest width, across 
the water-meadows, is about one mile. The eastern boundary is. 
