644 Report on the Farm-Prize Competition q/*1886. 
was 13Z. 4s. Id. per acre; the lowest, in 1881, was 8Z. Is. Irf. j 
the average value for 12 years was 9/. 19s. 10c?. per acre. 
The price of barley per bushel in 12 years, all sold, averaged 
4s. 3r/. ; the highest price was obtained in 1876, and was 5s. 2i\d. ; 
the lowest in 1878, 3s. A\d.\ Willich's returns for the same 
12 years give an average of 4s. 5|(Z. 
Wheat. — Thirty-seven acres after clover layers were manured 
with 10 loads of farmyard-manure per acre, spread over the 
land, and ploughed in ; and seed was drilled at the rate of 
8 pecks per acre, the varieties being " Club head," from 
Lord Kimberley's, and Scholey's "Square head," direct from 
Mr. Scholey. Early in spring a top-dressing was given of 4 
stones of sulphate of ammonia, and 8 stones of salt. This crop 
generally was rather thin but well headed, and would yield quite 
as well as it looked. 
The statistics for 12 years showed that" the greatest crop was 
in 1878, yielding 52 bushels 1 peck per acre ; the least in 1876, 
yielding 32 bushels; the average crop for 12 years, from 1872 
to 1884 inclusive, was 39 bushels. 
Then, as to value : the highest sum obtained per acre was in 
1874, and was 17Z. 2s. Id.; the lowest in 1883, 11. 18s. lOrf. ; 
the average for 12 years, IIZ. 10s. 5rf. 
Price per bushel : highest in 1873, 7s. IQd. ; lowest in 1884, 
4s. 2\d. ; average for 12 years, 5s. \0d. ; Willich's returns 
average for the same 12 years, 5s. \ii\d. 
Clovers. — The seeding for clover-layers is J peck of red 
clover, ^ peck of trefoil, 3 lbs. of white clover, 3 lbs. of alsike, 
1 peck of Italian rye-grass. The first crop is mown for hay, 
and the second growth fed off by the cattle. 
Root Crops. — JNIangolds, 9 acres were grown this year, for 
which 15 loads of farmyard-manure per acre was spread on the 
stubble and ploughed in ; and, previous to ridging the hind for 
sowing, a dressing of Bayly and Sutton's mangold-manure to the 
value of 30s. per acre was sown over it. In July the plant was 
most excellent, with few gaps, very forward and clean, and gave 
every indication of a large crop. 
Swedes. — Twenty acres sown after wheat : no yard-manure was 
given to these, but 30.9. worth of turnip-manure at the time of 
sowing, — 2 lbs. of seed per acre being used on 24-inch ridges. 
This is a very light seeding, and part of one field was so much 
decimated by the fly as to require resowing. The second 
braird, at our last visit, had just got into rough leaf, and would 
no doubt turn out all right ; but in all probability another 1^ lb. 
of seed per acre would have saved the first one. There was a 
capital plant in another field ; — close, growing vigorously, and 
well forward. 
