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Farm Reports. 
BULBKIDGE. 
I. Home Akable. — 84 acres. 
1. Wheat. 
2. Barley. 
3a. Broad clover (mown). Sft. Italian rye-grass, 
I followed by swedes. 
4tt. Broad clover (fed), 4&. Mangolds or cabbages, 
followed by rape and turnips. j 
II. Field Aeable.- 
1. Wheat. 
-316 
2a. Barley. 
3a. Sainfoin. 
I 
4a. Sainfoin. 
5a. Sainfoin. 
2b. Swedes or rape and turni])s, the 
latter preceded by vetches and 
winter oats on the wheat stubble. 
I 
36. Barley. 
4b. Seeds (mown). 
5&. Seeds (fed), one-half followed by 
rape and turui^js. 
Returning again to Wheat. 
in. Down Arable. — 34 acres. 
This land was broken up out of gorse and brushwood 12 years 
ago. It is too Aveak for ordinary crops, so it is farmed on a two- 
course system, each half being alternately " dredge " and 
" roots." The " dredge " consists of C bushels of oats, 1 bushel 
of barley, J bushel of beans, and J bushel of peas ; and the roots, 
are one-half mangolds and one-half swedes, drilled after the land 
has been steam-cultivated, and dressed with 50 bushels per acre of 
road scrapings and town refuse, and 8 bushels of dissolved bones ; 
the mangolds sometimes also getting a top-dressing of 1 cwt. of 
guano and 2 cwt. of salt. All the roots are fed off on the land 
by sheep, which get at the same time an allowance of corn or 
cake. 
