Bulbridge and Ugford, near Salisbur-i/. 
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bj a travelling company at a cost of Is. 8d. per score, including 
the materials, helpers being found as for shearing. 
Horses. 
Notwithstanding the lightness of the land, the adoption of 
steam cultivating machinery has left its mark by causing a 
considerable reduction in the number of horses kept on the farm. 
Formerly 22 horses were found none too many, now 17 can 
perform all the work left for horse-power. This reduction is 
nearly 25 per cent. ; and as the tillage land measures 750 
acres, it is equal to one horse to every 150 acres. 
In winter each horse has a weekly allowance of 1^ bushels of 
oats, J bushel of beans or maize, and 1 bushel of bran, with a 
certain quantity of wheat chaff, crude straw being at the same 
time given in the racks. From the beginning of March until 
May the allowance is increased by the addition of 56 lbs. of hay 
per horse ; and when green food comes in the quantity of corn 
is reduced to one-half. In the summer the horses are turned out 
to grass for about a month. ' 
The stables are not subdivided into stalls, but the whole of 
the horses stand side by side. They are bought young according 
to circumstances, from suckling foals to three-year-olds ; and, as 
a general rule, none are bred on the farm. 
Artificial Manures. 
The artificial manure used for roots for the most part consists 
•of dissolved bones and compost prepared on the farm. During 
the winter, in wet days, when very little other employment can 
be found for some of the labourers, they become very busy in 
soaking half-inch bones with liquid manure from the tank. 
Three heaps of bones are made, each containing 2 quarters ; 
these are soaked for about 3 days with as much liquid manure as 
they will absorb. When thoroughly saturated, one of these 
lieaps will be put into a cauldion for further treatment, and a 
new one is made and saturated to supply its place in rotation. 
The oldest heap, therefore, always stands next for treatment in 
the cauldron, which is done as follows : — -The 2 quarters of 
bones are shovelled into an old cauldron, and at the same time 
mixed with , about 50 lbs. of sulphuric acid per sack, the acid 
being added from time to time as more bones are put in. The 
mixture remains for about 24 hours, when it is taken out and 
thoroughly mixed, in a heap, with an equal quantity of un- 
-dissolved half-inch bones. The heap thus remains until about 
2 or 3 weeks before it is wanted, when it is mixed with 
about 50 bushels of compost per quarter, which quantity then 
