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practice on Burgh Farm, and the results achieved by it we 
will now briefly glance at. And first the Root-crops. Manc/olds, 
about 15 acres, one piece of which was not quite so close a 
plant in some places as could be desired, but the other most 
excellent and very forward. 
Swedes, and a few acres of white turnips, were all that could 
be wished for ; a healthy vigorous plant, without any wants, 
over the whole of the 51 acres, and with every prospect of their 
attaining to large crops. Barring a little annual weed, which 
the hoe would readily eradicate, the whole of the land under 
roots might be pronounced perfectly clean. We could only, 
from what we saw of the crops last autumn, infer what the 
present ones are likely to attain to. The mangolds then were 
certainly not less than 35 tons per acre, and the swedes we put 
at 25 tons, and had no reason to suppose the weights this year 
would be less. 
Wheat, of which there is 73 acres, is in keeping with nearly 
all we have seen this year, viz., had suffered from the untoward 
winter, and in some places was a little thin on the ground, but 
healthy and well headed, and looked like yielding not much 
short of 5 quarters per acre. 
Of Barley there are 68 acres. A thick good plant all over. 
In early summer so gross was it, that flagging was resorted to 
in order to prevent its going down. The dry season, however, 
put a different face on the matter, greatly decreasing the 
anticipated bulk of straw ; and in some few places, where the 
gravel is near the surface, the grain has also suffered, but not to 
such an extent as to materially affect the crop, and the better 
quality will more than make up for the slight deficit in 
quantity. The yield per acre over the whole we estimated at 
5^ quarters. 
Oats. — Seven acres, and, as already mentioned, they are likely 
to prove a large crop. We should not exaggerate in putting 
the yield at nearly 10 quarters per acre. * 
The corn-crops, as the roots, we found practically clean. A 
little red weed was observable in some of the barley, but not in 
quantity to do harm. Couch-grass was nowhere to be seen. 
Sixty-four acres of clover were cut and stacked in good order 
before our final visit, and we did not see the crop; but in May 
it did not promise to be anything beyond ordinary. 
Fertility is maintained less by patronising the artificial- 
manure maker than the cake merchant. One hundred tons of 
cake are purchased yearly, and passed through the big bullocks 
already described, the theoretical manurial value of which, 
according to our best authorities, being not less than 500/. 
But in addition, lOOZ. worth of Yarmouth town and artificial 
