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with the addition of sweet silage and the usual allowance of cake. Cattle did 
well. Sheep had cut turnips, cake, and hay on the grass-land. 
" 5. No. 
" 6. My experience of sweet silage is very much in its favour. I found it 
hoth useful and economical food for mixing with other things. My silage 
was from Johnson's system of stacking. 
" 7. Shelter for sheep is much wanted by the farmers in this district in 
winter. A great many shelter-sheds have been erected upon the Duke oS 
Cleveland's estate the last few years, and there is great demand for them. 
" 10. Proper covered buildings are the first necessary requirement of the 
farmer to meet his difiBculties, preserving his manure, and keeping his stock 
in a proper healthy condition." 
Mr. John Outhwaite, Crake Hall, Bedale, Yorkshire : 
" 1. A gravel soil and chiefly tillage land. The climate genial and early. 
Light cropping, as a rule, and the land requires frequent manuring. 
"2. The summer was cold and backward, and the crops light, and yield 
very bad. Winter set in early in autumn, and very little wheat was sown ; 
it is now looking very thin on the ground, and otfers a very light crop ; the 
spring has been one of the worst and backward I ever knew. 
" 3. The root crops, especially swedes, were a failure. Mine were very 
good. I find from experience that sowing on the flat is a very safe plan on 
this gravel soil, as I think it retains the moisture better until the plant is 
young. The autumn was fair for storing roots, and we find they are much 
better stored without frost, if possible. 
" 4. Had plenty of roots right through until May ; but as a rule provender 
of all kinds was very scarce and dear ; hay as high as 9c?., and in some cases 
Is. per stone. I have frequently, when roots have been scarce, chaffed up my 
straw and made gruel of corn and linseed ground together. This poured over 
chaff, mixed with a few pulped roots, makes an excellent food for holding 
stock. 
" 5. Now cutting tares and rye, which is good feed, sown in October. 
" 6. No experience. 
" 7. No shelter is provided for sheep here. Have frequently kept sheep 
in the yards and houses, but find they do as well in the fields. I have some- 
times had hurdles lined with light boards, but the sheep do not appear to care 
for them. 
" 9. Perhaps in consequence of the scarcity of roots the markets were over- 
stocked in the autumn ; but the great or principal cause was the short demand. 
A great many cattle and sheep get far too many roots. Fewer roots and 
more cake or corn would do better. 
" 10. Past seasons and experience have proved to me the necessity of 
covered yards for cattle ; both for the comfort of the cattle and a saving of 
food, covered yards are indispensable ; and for sheep I don't know anything 
so good as to provide plenty of dry food along with roots, both for warmness 
and feeding." 
Mr. Teasdale H. Hutchinson, Manor House, Catterick, York- 
shire : 
" 1. One part of the arable land clay subsoil, the remainder on a gravelly 
subsoil. We have not liad any climate (!) the last six months. 
"2. A fine liaytime, but light crops. Harvest very tiresome, but crops 
secured in good condition. A wet autumn, but managed to get autumo- 
wheat sown by the middle of November. 
" 3. Swede turnips simply splendid, and mangolds good. 
