Market-garden Farm Competition, 1879. 
863 
customary to put wheat in before the middle of November in 
this part of Essex, as it is apt to get " winter proud " if it is 
sown earlier. Mr. Glenny grows a sort of wheat called " Tall 
Straw," a red wheat with stout stiff straw, that seemed closely 
allied to the " Kissingen " wheat, grown upon the farm of the 
Trustees of the late Mr. J. C. Circuit. 
Number 
of 
Field. 
Description of Crop in 
1877. 
1878. 
1879. 
A. 
B'. 
W. 
B\ 
C. 
D. 
E. 
F. 
G. 
H. 
I. 
K. 
L. 
M. 
N. 
O. 
P. 
Q. 
E. 
S. 
T. 
U. 
Y. 
W. 
Parsnips 
Lisbon onions . . 
Willow-bed .. .. 
(■Early potatoes, fol- 
\ lowed by turnips 
Potatoes 
I f Wheat, and 
i\ and beans 
; Oats 
peas,| 
Onions. Scarlet-runners 
Mangel 
Wheat 
Willow-bed 
Wheat 
Cucumbers 
Potatoes 
Wheat 
\ parsnips 
Pasture 
I Cabbages 
I Potatoes .. 
I ( Parsnips and 
( cumbers 
Lisbon onions 
Potatoes .. 
".-){ 
Cabbages. 
Wheat. 
Windsor beans. 
Willow-bed. 
Early potatoes. 
fEarly greens, varie- 
\ ties to follow. 
(Cabbages, peas,'pota- 
\ toes, onions, wheat. 
Wheat. 
Potatoes. 
Oats. 
Mangel and seed-bed. 
Cabbages. 
(Cucumbers and red 
I cabbages. 
Parsnips. 
Pastm-e. 
I Rye cut green, then 
I mangel. 
Parsnips Onions. 
Cabbages Onions. 
French beans, cabbage,"! ( Onions, cabbages, 
and mangel .. ../ ( tares, beetroot. 
(Onions, rhubarb, andV fEhubarb, carrots, 
\ beetroot / \ cabbage. 
Parsnips ; Potatoes. 
Eed cabbage . . . . i Parsnips. 
Ehubarb and lucerne . : Rhubarb and lucerne. 
.. .. ' Peas, scarlet-runners. 
Potatoes 
rWheat (as an expert 
\ ment) 
Potatoes I Wheat 
Potatoes I Oats and wheat . . 
Parsnips | Potatoes 
(Early Shaws andl 
Wheat and onions 
Onions 
Pasture 
Wheat 
It would have been difficult to find a more luxuriant piece of 
oats than that upon H field ; there was quite plant enough 
to yield 12 qrs. per acre, and withal it looked sturdy and strong, 
and as if it would not go down under any circumstances — and 
after wheat too ! — a liberty which Mr. Glenny can afford to take 
with his land successfully, as he said, and of which the Judges 
had proof positive in this instance. For the potato crop in 
1877, the land had been heavily dunged ; then came the wheat 
without manure in 1878, and the oats without manure in 1879. 
Nitrate of soda would have been applied if the oats had shown 
