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mangolds from portable manures only, Mr. Devereaux's practice 
of depending on them is preferable to that of Mr. Spencer 
Turner, who, it will be remembered, carts farmyard-dung to his 
ridges early in spring, with the risk of poaching the land should 
it be at all wet, which at that season the chances are it will be. 
The mangolds we saw, so grown, last autumn were large fine 
roots, and apparently had been a good crop. 
This year's crop was drilled on the 8th of April, and in the first 
week in May presented a very fine braird ; while at our last visit 
on Monday, the opening day of the Show at Norwich, this 
being the last farm inspected, they were a most promising 
plant, the best we considered we had seen on any of the farms, 
and scarcely a weed of any description among them. 
Oats. — One-third of the wheat-stubble, as stated, is cropped 
with oats, getting as manure 5 cwt. of superphosphate per acre 
applied at the same time as the seed. This land, after the oat- 
crop, as also that on which the mangolds grew, is sown with 
barley, superphosphate again being applied to the whole. 
Seed, 10 pecks per acre. 
Seeds are sown with the barley-crop, the horse-hoe previously 
having been freely used. In the matter of clover-seeds, Mr. 
Devereaux is as liberal in the quantity sown as we consider he 
is niggardly with regard to mangold seeding: 17 lbs. of red clover 
and 1 peck of Italian rye-grass is the allowance per acre. This 
is rotated with trefoil, so that clover comes on the same land once 
in eight years. 
A dressing of farmyard-manure is given to the seeds early in 
the succeeding spring, a practice that cannot be too strongly 
recommended. They are usually mown, and the second growth 
is fed off with lambs eating cake. 
In the month of July, five or six furrows are ploughed from 
the hedge-banks all round the clover fields, and well cultivated 
to check creeping rooted weeds running from them, and also to 
germinate and so destroy any seed that may have been shaken 
Irom the hedgerow. Mr. Learner's practice as to this will be 
remembered ; but Mr. Devereaux's is certainly more effective, 
and the vigilance thus displayed to guard against the approach 
of an enemy augurs ill for its permanence should it by chance 
obtain a footing. 
A large and excellent stack of clover-hay had been secured 
before our last visit, some of which would probably be sold off 
the farm, this being done occasionally. A second light dressing of 
dung is, as a rule, applied to the layers before they are ploughed 
up for wheat, which with the former application must not only 
afford ample manure for that crop, but leave a considerable 
overplus for the mangolds succeeding ; and this accounts for the 
good crops grown with an application of artificials only. 
