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been drained. The other part is a light soil, some portions 
very light, and the rest are on a sandy subsoil. 
The heavy land is cultivated on a 9-feet stretch, so common 
on the heavy land in the Eastern Counties. 
Farmyard-manure is applied for wheat and mangolds, Lawes's 
turnip-manure, 5 cwt. per acre, being the dressing given for the 
swede crop. 
The corn crops varied much ; some of the wheat was very good, 
and some very indifferent ; the same remark applied to the barley, 
one field being as good as anything we saw in our inspection. 
The beans, 10 acres, were short, but fairly well podded. They 
succeeded wheat, with ten loads of farmyard-manure as nutrition 
per acre. 
Ten acres of mangolds were good, another 10 acres were short 
of plant, and the swede plant was fairly good. Taking the arable 
land as a whole, it was not so free from weeds as some of the 
farms in the Class. We must not, however, be understood as 
insinuating that jNIr. Durrant's farm is foul, for that it is not ; 
but it is in some measure less clean than those of his opponents 
to which we awarded prizes. 
The fences are extremely good, and display great skill and 
care in their management. If a prize had been offered for the 
neatest and best fences, Mr. Durrant would have been to the 
fore. On his entrj' to the farm he re-arranged several of his 
fields, stubbing old crooked fences and planting new straight 
ones, which must have cost a very considerable sum ; but the 
details and amount he did not supply to us, and therefore we 
cannot give them. 
The farm accounts are kept in a businesslike way in cash- 
book and ledger. 
Class II. — Commended. 
Mr. Henry Smith, Great Melton, Wymondham, Norfolk. 
Arable Land 228 acres. 
Grass „ 146 „ 
Total .. .. 374 „ 
This farm, which is situated four miles from Wymondham, is 
the property of the Rev. H. Evans Lombe, of Bylaugh Park, 
East Dereham, and is held on a yearly tenancy at a rent of 465/., 
the tenant also paying a yearly tithe rent-charge of 120Z. Rates 
average about 50Z. yearly. He has occupied it for fifteen years, 
succeeding his father-in-law, who occupied it for forty years 
previously. The highway from Norwich by way of Kimberley 
