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fl) Ordinary mineral superphosphate ; 
(2) Good bone superphosphate ; 
(3) Peruvian guano ; 
(4) Sulphate of ammonia ; 
and what proportion of pure nitrate would you insist on in nitrate of 
soda? 
10. Which of these manures would you prefer for top dressing- 
barley after wlieat, where no farmyard-manure has been applied, but 
where 3 cwt. of mineral superphosphate has been drilled with the 
seed? State the quantity of such manure or manures which, in your 
opinion, might advantageously be employed. 
11. Give some of the indications by which you would judge of the 
fertility (or otherwise) of a farm in such bad condition that it owed 
little to artificial methods of cultivation. 
12. What mixture of clovers and grasses do you consider best on 
land with which you are acquainted — 
(1) For one year's seeds; 
(2) For permanent pasture ? 
13. How would you lay down land for permanent grass ? What 
time would you sow the seed '? What would be your subsequent treat- 
ment for the first three or four years ? 
14. On good land, well farmed, what would you consider a good 
crop of each of the following : — 
(1) Wheat, ] 
(2) Barley, 
(3) Oats, ) stated in qrs. or bushels ; 
(4) Beans, 
5) Peas, 
6) Potatoes, 
(7) Mangolds, 
(8) Swedes, 
(9) Common turnips, 
15. If you have a crop of mangolds, 2 feet apart in the rows, and 
1 foot apart in drills, which average 7 lbs. each in weight, what is the 
weight of your crop per acre ? 
16. State the simplest method of ascertaining the weight per acre 
of roots on a field where it is not practicable to weigh the entire crop, 
but where samples only of the best and worst parts of the crop can be 
selected. 
17. What amount per annum should suflSce for the labour of a 
mixed land farm of 600 acres, of which one-third is grass, and which 
is cropped according to the usual course and covenants ? 
18. It is impossible entirely to separate the cost of the arable and 
the grass lands ; but, speaking generally, what amount of the above 
(Q. 17) would you apportion to the grass and the plough ? 
12. You have fair fattening bullock land, which you value to your- 
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stated in tons ? 
