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On the removal of their lambs the ewes are turned on to the 
walk, and from there to the grass and cole as rutting time 
approaches. 
As the foregoing figures show, the hoofs of Mr. Sherwood's 
sheep, if not golden, at least carry animals conspicuous as gold 
winners ; and the most is made of the land in course for green 
crops for their sustenance. 
Rye, trifolium, &c., are sown in the autumn on the stubbles 
where the soil is weakest, and then fed off in spring and early 
summer, crops of white turnips, cole, &c., following, and these 
again fed off as a preparation for barley. 
Large crops of swedes and mangolds are by heavy dressings 
of manure grown on the better soils, and their consumption with 
cake and corn creates a fertility producing good earn crops, on 
land naturally poor, and which, under treatment less liberal, 
would speedily revert to comparative barrenness. 
For mangolds, 20 loads of farmyard-manure and 4 cwt. of 
artificial manure are applied, and 6 lbs. of seed drilled on 
the flat. 
For swedes, 10 loads of farmyard and 4 cwt. of artificial 
manure are given, also sown on the flat with 3 lbs. of seed. 
As will be seen, JNIr. Sherwood's practice with regard to the 
application of manure differs from what is the rule in Suffolk 
and Norfolk, he applying dung for the root crops instead of to 
the wheat. For the latter, after layers, he applies 4 cwt. of rape- 
cake with the seed, and 1 cwt. of nitrate of soda in the spring ; 
the seed sown being 2 bushels per acre. 
Barley after roots folded with sheep requires no manure ; the 
seed per acre is 2 bushels. 
Beans, of which he has this year 12 acres, sown in the autumn, 
after barley on the piece of good-bodied land underlain by clay, 
were manured with foldyard-manure, 12 loads per acre ; the 
seed is 2 bushels per acre. 
Peas, also after barley, are manured with 10 loads of yard- 
manure and 2 cwt. of artificial. 
At our May visit the whole of the barley looked remarkably 
promising. Two fields of wheat were very good ; but another 
piece had suffered so much by the severe winter that it was con- 
sidered advisable to drill oats amongst it. The field of winter 
beans was also looking well, but the peas were thin. The 
mangolds had been sown, and preparations were going on for 
swede sowinof. 
On our return in July we found the whole of the barley crop 
dwarfed by the drought, and in several places much burnt up. 
The mixed wheat and oats was not a satisfactory crop, but the 
remainder of the wheat was good ; one field very good. 
