Bulhridge and Uyford, near Salishunj. 
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In the spring it is again scarified, either by liorse or steam, 
according to circumstances, harrowed and drilled, as already 
described, for "swedes after Italian rye-grass," and subsequently 
receives the same treatment, the whole of the crop being fed 
off on the land. 
id.) Rape and Turnips after Green Crop on a Wheat Stubble. — 
Instead of a crop of swedes being obtained in the manner just 
described on the whole of the "half-course," available for it on 
the five-field shift pursued in the Bulbridge " field arable," 
20 acres out of the 40 are sown with vetches and winter oats 
soon after the wheat is harvested ; and this " catch crop " is 
succeeded bv turnips, or by rape and turnips, as soon as that is 
fed off. Tlie land is ploughed once as soon as possible, and 
drilled with 3 lbs. of seed and 4 bushels of dissolved bones mixed 
with 50 bushels of compost per acre, being afterwards treated in 
the ordinary manner. The same system is pursued on one-half 
of the shift in the four-field rotation which constitutes the variety 
in the management of one-third of the Ugford farm, 
(e.) Mam/olds. — T&is crop is not taken on the five-course 
" field arable " at Bulbridge ; but it occupies one-eighth of the 
area farmed under the four-course systems, namely, 48 acres, 
and one-fourth of the "down arable," and a portion of the small 
fields at Ugford, making together about lO acres. From this 
total of 58 acres, however, we must deduct the portion annually 
allotted to cabbages in lieu of mangolds. 
The land is manured with 15 two-horse-loads of farmyard 
manure in the spring ; it is ploughed and pressed as soon as the 
swedes are fed off ; except the portion after barley, which is 
manured in the winter and ploughed immediately, the spring 
tillage being the same as on the previous portion. The land 
is then harrowed and drilled with one quarter of dissolved bones 
and compost, and with 8 lbs. of yellow globe mangold seed per 
acre, sowing being usually finished by the middle of May. The 
drills are lil^ inches apart, and the plants, after frequent hoeings 
by horse and by hand, are left from 9 inches to 1 foot asunder 
in the rows. About one-third are fed off by sheep in October 
on the ground, no preference being given in this matter to any 
description of sheep on the farm. The remainder are taken up, 
topped, put in long pits with a slight covering of straw under 
the earth, leaving the top of the ridge uncovered for a short 
time, until there is no chance of heating, when the ridge is 
entirely closed by earth. These mangolds are for the most part 
reserved for the ewes after lambing, and for the draft-ewes, rams, 
and sale-lambs during the months of June and July. 
(J'.) Cabbages. — Cabbages are invariably planted on a portion of 
the land which would otherwise be devoted to mangolds. Early 
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