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and a few potatoes — a very g-ood crop all over the field. The 
Aberdeen turnips occupied the south side of the field ; they 
were fed off by sheep and the land was grubbed by oxen. The 
swedes were all carted, and the land was then ploughed. 
The whole field was sown with 6 bushels of potato oats, with- 
out artificial manure. A good crop was standing all over the 
field in August 1879, best after the turnips and weakest after 
the potatoes. 
No. 2 (20 a. 3 r. 9 p.) and No. 2a (28 a. 1 r. 3 p.). In 
1874, oats; 1875, swedes; 1876, oats, estimated at quarters 
per acre — the oats went down in places and killed the grass ; in 
1877, grass, hard fed. In No. 2a, the sheep were turned in at 
the end of May and the field was laid up for hay without a top- 
dressing ; the plant was good, but the crop light, in consequence 
of its hard treatment. Both fields were fed constantly during 
1878, clover and rye-grass both standing well. 
In May 1879 both of these fields were rolled by the small 
traction engine ; this operation has greatly benefited the softer 
parts of the land, and the fields are covered with excellent grass 
and clover. The four fields, 1, 1 h, 2, and 2 a, rest upon an 
excellent subsoil and will well repay cultivation. An open 
ditch, dividing the fields, receives most of the drains. In 
August 1879 the ditch greatly needed cleaning out and deepen- 
ing ; sheep had trodden down the sides, and the water in it 
stood level with the mouth of the drains. 
No 2b (10 a. 1 r. 25 p.). In 1875, oats ; in 1876, turnips, 
part dunged, sown late — a fair crop, carted off ; 1877, Sandy 
oats, not top-dressed — a good crop ; 1878, all the drains in 
this field were re-opened in spring. The cost of labour, both for 
stone and for pipe-drains, being about the same as for making 
new drains. In 1879 grass-seeds, a poor crop, with much bromiis 
mollis in it. This field has a rocky subsoil, and presents every 
appearance of having been imperfectly limed. 
No. 3 (21 a. 3r. 27 p.) and No. 3a (3 a. Or. 22 p.). In 1875, 
oats ; 1876, hay, a poor crop ; 1877 and 1878, very poor grass, 
with much sorrel and fog-grass, constantly fed. Last winter 
swedes were carted on to this field and ewes were fed upon 
them, with \ lb. of oats and ^ lb. cake per diem while the snow 
lasted. The grass was also rolled by steam. A great improve- 
ment has resulted from this treatment, and clover is much more 
abundant than it was previously. 
No. ?>h (10 a. 2 r. 24 p.). In 1873, wheat, strong in the straw, 
but the grain did not ripen well ; 1874, turnips, a good crop ; 1875, 
oats, a fair crop ; 1876, hay, a fair crop, well harvested ; 1877, 
grass, fed closely down ; 1878, still closely grazed, the whole 
surface is well covered with small native clovers, yielding excel- 
