Report on the Farm-Prize Competition q/"1886. 601 
Yior acre is considered a good crop on this sandy soil. The 
mangolds are secured in clamps, covered with bracken and then 
soil. Some are occasionally fed off where grown, but this is 
<lone before Christmas. 
Swedes are generally clamped in heaps of 30 bushels each, 
■covered with bracken and then earthed. The cost of getting-up 
and securing roots is from 6s. to 9s. per acre. 
The root plant throughout was good, the mangolds and swedes 
especially so. Some of the white turnips, where rye had been 
fed off, were being sown at our last visit, and the rain falling so 
shortly afterwards would not fail to ensure a good braird. 
For barley, two ploughings are usually given ; but sometimes 
when the land is late fed it is first broken up with " Biddell's 
Croomes," then ploughed 7-in. deep, and well cultivated with 
harrows. The roots are fed off with cake for barley, as a rule ; 
but when they are removed, rape-cake is applied as a manure. 
Seed, 8 pecks of Hallett's Pedigree. Some of the barley was 
good, some indifferent, and on the blowing sand stretching out 
to the heath it had suffered much from the drought, and was a 
very poor crop. Barley is always stacked loose. 
Clover seeds are sown directly after the barley is drilled. 
Red clover, 1 peck per acre, with a little rye-grass, is sown 
on the best land ; but on the weaker the mixture is, 
^ peck red clover, 
\ peck trefoil, 
1 quart White clover, 
1^ pecks Italian rye-grass, 
and on the blowing-sand more rye-grass is sown. 
The sheep are run lightly over the seeds after harvest, and in 
spring some of them are folded, the sheep lying on them at 
nights. They are afterwards ploughed up for cole or turnips. 
The remainder, except what is mown, are folded as often as 
the growth will admit, the sheep being removed at nights. 
Folding, or "reaching off," economises food, and is a practice 
indispensable on such a farm. 
For wheat, farmyard-manure is applied to the clover layers, 
and ploughed about 6-in. deep ; the land is rolled, harrowed, 
and drilled with 7 to 8 pecks per acre; harrowed again, then 
rib-rolled to consolidate, and given another strike of the harrow 
to finish. All the wheat is horse-hoed. Harvesting costs about 
10.V. per acre, exclusive of thatching. The work, as is usual in 
Suffolk, is let to his labourers, working in gangs, — 14 acres 
being the allotted share of each man, for which he gets 8Z., but 
in addition has to hoe 3 acres of white turnips to keep him 
employed in wet weather or damp mornings. 
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