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and pea stubble, which are ploughed and treated in the usual 
way, and 8 pecks of seed are sown per acre. 
For the root crop, the first preparation is to clear the land 
between harvest and Michaelmas of any weeds that may be in 
it, INlr. Procter believing that immediately after harvest is the 
best of all times to accomplish this economically and successfully. 
When this is done, 10 or 12 loads of farmyard-manure are carted 
on the land intended for mangolds, and ploughed deeply in. 
In spring another furrow is given, other cultivation following 
until the land is got into proper tilth, when, 4 cwt. of artificial 
manure having been sown broadcast, it is closed into ridges, 
and drilled with 7 lbs. of seed per acre. 
Swedes and white turnips are treated in a similar way, 
except that no yard manure is given for them, but 4 cwt. of 
Lawes's turnip manure is sown over the land and ridged in as for 
mangolds. Swede seed is sown at the rate of 3 pints per acre. 
One half of the swede and turnip crops is drawn off, and the 
other consumed on the land by sheep eating 1 lb. of cake or 
beans, which leaves the land in good condition for the following 
corn crop — barley — the seeding for Avhich is 3 bushels. 
Peas, which are sown on half the land after barley, get no 
manure ; but when a few acres of beans are substituted for peas, 
a dressing of farmyard-dung is given, being spread on the 
stubble and ploughed in. 
The whole of the corn crops were good, and looked like 
yielding grain abundant in quantity and good in quality. The 
peas — 23 acres — were also a very good crop. 
At our May visit the field for mangolds, one of the stiffest on 
the farm, was ploughed ; but rain was wanted before a sufficient 
tilth could be had. The plant in July was patchy and the 
least satisfactory of any crop on the farm. 
The swedes and white turnips were a splendid plant, the latter 
having been sown for early feed and thinned. All the swedes 
were ready for thinning ; some of them we thought ought to have 
been thinned ; but Mr. Procter considering otherwise, JLntended 
leaving them until rain fell, or the rays of the then extremely 
hot burning sun were obscured by cloudy weather, the former 
occurring on the evening of our visit. 
All the crops were clean, couch grass was very scarce, and 
annual weeds few. 
The fences were not all good, the outside ones not much to 
complain of; but those internal, especially bounding the grass- 
land, were old, and thin at bottom. The banks of all were 
untrimmcd in July ; but this delay arose on account of the 
partridge nests, Avhich would have been destroyed had the work 
proceeded earlier. This gave an untidy appearance to the 
