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Report upon the Market-garden, and 
heavier in the lower part, near the marshes, and being closer 
upon the gravel has a tendency to burn. The rent is 3/. 10s. 
per acre, and rates, taxes, and tithes amount to 1/. bs. per 
acre. 
All the buildings are in capital order and most suitable, the 
majority having been recently put up ; and the gates and fences 
were in a good state. 
There are three enclosures of marsh land, which will fatten 
bullocks at the rate of from 1\ to per acre in ordinary 
seasons. Upon these were some very useful and well-bred Irish 
steers and heifers, that had been bought in March and were 
getting " smooth," though the season had been unfavourable for 
grazing. Near the homestead are some small meadows, which 
are fed and mown alternately. Two are useful pasture with 
fine herbage, lying high and dry ; the other meadows are wet 
and marshy, and cannot be drained by reason of the level, and 
yield coarse grass. All the meadow land showed signs of care 
and attention, and was free from thistles and other weeds. 
There is a more regular and definite rotation of crops upon 
this market-garden farm than was found in the case of market- 
gardens, though it is occasionally altered by circumstances and 
the seasons. It will be well to give here in some detail the 
scheme of cropping, which is adhered to as closely as possible 
upon South Hall Farm. 
(1) Potatoes intended to come off in time to plant (2) cab- 
bages in the autumn, to be taken off in the spring following and 
succeeded by (3) cucumbers, which stay only a few weeks upon 
the land, and give place to (4) winter onions. After these come 
(5) cabbages, then (G) potatoes, followed by (7) carrots or parsnips, 
(8) wheat, (9) oats, (10) broccoli, (11) potatoes or scarlet-runners, 
(12) coleworts, (13) peas, (14) Brussels sprouts, returning again 
to potatoes. This will show that the land is made to bring 
forth her increase continuously. Premising from the fine 
crops that were found upon it by the Judges, there has been 
no exhaustion of its resources ; the great and constant drain 
upon these has been amply restored by liberal dressings of 
manure. Without these it would be impossible to work the land 
in this fashion. Quantities of nitrogenous manure are essential 
for the production of the brassica? as well as of onions and 
carrots, whose plants thickly cover the ground, whose roots 
penetrate it in every direction with countless fibres. Much 
of the land of South Hall Farm, moreover, is peculiarly well 
fitted for the work of preparing the crude nitrogenous manures 
for assimilation by plants. Its mechanical condition and 
its power of absorption and retention of moisture make it 
well suited for this purpose. Its natural inherent fertility is 
