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lent feed. This is the best field on the farm, probably worth 21. 
to 2/. bs. per acre to rent in its present state. In spring, 1879, 
ploughed by horses and oxen, then " disced " by steam, harrowed, 
grubbed, and again harrowed by oxen, ridged, and heavily 
dunged ; after the ridges were closed it was drilled about 22nd 
May with swedes, sown with 2^ cwt. superphosphate, 2i cwt. 
ground bones, and 1 cwt. phospjio-guano. In August the swedes 
were very good and growing vigorously, in spite of the roughness 
of the ground, the old turf not yet having rotted completely ; 
1 acre of vetches, good. 
No. 3c (31 a. 2 r.). In 1876, oats, a fair crop ; 1877 and 1878, 
grass rather poor. In 1879, 9 acres turnips, 1 acre potatoes, 21 
acres oats. The turnips are on the south side ; the cultivation 
and treatment were the same as those for swedes in the last field. 
They were drilled at the beginning of June, destroyed by grub, 
and resown by hand. The potatoes promised well. The land 
for oats was ploughed in autumn by horses and oxen, harrowed 
in spring, and sown broadcast with 2 cwt. of superphosphate, 
1 cwt. bone-meal, and 1 cwt. phospho-guano. South side 
Swiss, and north side Sandy oats. A fair crop over the field. 
The Swiss oats were last sown, but first ripe. 
No. 4 (11 a. 3 r. 37 p.). In 1875, oats; 1876, turnips — 
east side fed off by sheep, west side carted off ; 1877, six acres 
in oats — good ; two in vetches, two in mangolds — -both poor ; 
two in potatoes — good ; 1878, six acres grass, after oats, and six 
acres in oats. A further illustration was seen here of the care 
that should be taken to prevent fibrous peat becoming dried 
before it is broken up. A man and cart were employed in 
removing sponge-like pieces of tough fibrous peat, from 6 to 12 
inches square,'that had been allowed to get dry in 1874, and still 
showed no signs of coming to pieces. The oats were a poor 
crop, and the seeds sown with them failed in 1879. The 
second year's seeds on the east side are much better, with fair 
clover in them. 
No. 4a (51 a. 3 r. 16 p.). In 1875, oats at the south end ; 1876, 
oats at the north end, turnips at the south end ; 1877, all in oats, 
a good crop after the turnips, and a fair crop obtained by the 
application of 4 cwt. dissolved bones on the oats grown after 
oats ; 1878, after being iate fed, a crop of 12 cwt. of hay was 
obtained from the south end ; the whole of the field showed an 
excellent plant of clover and grass in the autumn of 1878. Since 
then the grass has been steam-rolled and fed by sheep and cattle ; 
it continues to improve. 
No. 5 (27 a. 3 r. 17 p.) and No. 5a (30 a. Or. 32 p.). 1875, 
oats ; 1876, oats, top-dressed with nitrate and superphos- 
phate — a fair crop of heavy oats, weighing 41 lbs. per bushel ; 
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