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the house, and the rest, consisting of meadows which are gene- 
rally mown, lies on the lowest land at the bottom of the farm. 
The mowing land — about 24 acres — is manured every year with 
a good dressing of farmyard or Stratford stable-manure, and is 
thus kept in a satisfactory condition. 
I shall, in the first place, describe the system of cultivation 
adopted, passing on afterwards to the Live stock, the manage- 
ment of which is very excellent. The cropping is generallv 
upon the six-course rotation common to this county, viz. : — 
(1) Swedes, Mangolds, or (very rarely) Turnips ; (2) Barley ; 
(3) Seeds; (4) Wheat; (5) Beans or Peas; (6) Wheat or 
Barley. 
This course is, however, occasionally varied, about 20 acres 
of seeds on the poorest land being allowed to remain two years 
down, and being mowed the first and grazed the second year. 
Under this system the following is the usual acreage of the 
various crops : — (1) Wheat, 85 to 100 acres ; (2) Barley or Oats, 
40 acres ; (3) Beans or Peas, 40 acres ; (4) Seeds, mowing or 
grazing, 60 or 70 acres ; (5) Roots, 40 acres, consisting of Swedes 
30 acres. Mangolds 10 acres. Besides the above crops, about 
8 acres of land are always kept under Lucerne. 
Commencing with the fallow land, the usual practice is as 
follows : — The wheat-stubbles having been carefully forked over, 
the land is manured as early as possible with 15 loads an acre of 
good farmyard-dung, and ploughed immediately. In the case of 
mangolds they are drilled, if possible, the first week in April at 
a distance of 22 inches apart, 8 lbs. of seed being put on per acre. 
They receive an extra dressing of 2 cwt. of nitrate of soda per 
acre directly after chopping out, and the horse-hoe is immediately 
afterwards passed through them. Half the crop is fed on the 
land and half carted away for cattle in the yards. The crop 
of 1875, which the Judges saw, being clamped in the field (the 
weather being too wet for carting them away), was a superb one, 
not only in the quantity but also in the quality of the roots. 
The sort was Sutton's Golden Tankard, and the shape and size 
of the roots was almost faultless. As far as the weight per acre 
went, it has no doubt often been exceeded on some descriptions 
of land. It was, however, so good and level a crop that, at the 
request of the Judges, Mr. Stilgoe weighed a certain quantity, 
which gave an average of 47 tons per acre. In May and also in 
July we had further opportunities of observing their keeping 
qualities, and found them surprisingly firm and juicy. The cost 
of hoeing, singling, and cleaning this crop is about 125. per acre ; 
and the expense of taking up and throwing into heaps, containing 
about a ton each, is also 12s. The earthing down of the crop 
