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Wheat, which is sown early, completes the rotation, 7 pecks 
per acre of seed being used. This crop is also well horse-hoed 
in spring, and a self-binding machine was last year hired to 
economise the work of harvest. 
In spring the whole of the corn crops were very promising ; a 
good plant everywhere ; all had been horse-hoed and were remark- 
ably clean, and this promise was not belied by results in July. 
The field of wheat, 13 acres of Carter's Rough-chaff Club-headed 
White, had attained to an excellent crop, as thick on the ground 
as any we had seen, with large well-filled heads, and, given 
favourable weather to finish, looked like yielding quite 5 qrs. 
per acre. 
Oats, 5 acres after wheat, manured as described, were also 
a very good crop, and likely to pay well for the purchased 
manure given them. 
Barley, 9^ acres after mangolds, was a very fair crop, but not 
so heavy as 5^ acres sown after oats, being the third white corn 
crop in succession. This was a very capital piece, and the 
yield would be large. It was grown on one of the best fields of 
the farm ; but making allowance for this, the perfect cleanness 
of the land after such a course of cropping, with the great bulk 
produced, is most creditable to the management. 
About 13 acres of meadow are mown yearly, and a dressing of 
compost of farmyard-dung and road-scrapings is applied as 
manure. The grass-land, which is very poor in quality, is also 
occasionally helped by light dressings of the above, besides 
being fed off with sheep eating cake. 
Fences. — Most of the hedges are bounded by ditches, and 
both are kept in perfect order, the hedges neatly trimmed and 
the latter scoured, with the banks of both dressed down by the 
sickle, which prevents weeds shedding their seeds, besides 
giving an aspect of tidiness to the fields. They were, we were 
told, in keeping with some which we saw adjoining, in a very 
wild and rugged state at the time of Mr. Devereaux's entry to 
the farm, and their present satisfactory condition is the result of 
eleven years' careful attention. He also stubbed up 110 rods of 
old fence, and piped and levelled the ditches, throwing four 
fields into two. The gates were in good repair, but several of 
them, like those already noted on other farms, were void of iron- 
work, and slipped into notches in posts to fasten. 
Live-Stock. 
Sheep or cattle are not bred on the farm, but all are bought 
that are requisite for the consumption of produce ; the practice 
has been to buy the chief part of the cattle in the autumn and the 
