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for these crops at the rate of 12 or 14 loads an acre. The beans 
(White Eje or Heligoland) are drilled at a distance of 14 inches 
apart, and at the rate of 2^ bushels an acre. They are hoed with 
hoes, 11 inches wide, at a cost of 4s. an acre, and the work seemed 
admirably done. Peas are sown at the rate of 5 bushels — 
Nimble Tailors," or some other early variety of the white kind, 
being chosen. In hoeing beans, peas, and other crops, Mr. 
Stilgoe gives his men Id. a score for docks, which they bring 
home in bundles for burning. Wheat (or occasionally barley) 
follows the pulse-crop and concludes the rotation. 
The following is the cropping-list for this and last year : — 
1875. 
Acres. 
Wheat .. ..103 
Barley 50 
Beans 31 
Peas 
First year's seeds 
Second year's seeds 
Mangolds 
Swedes 
Cabbages 
Kape . . 
Turnips 
Lucerne 
i 34 mown. 
21 
(19 grazed. 
20 grazed. 
8 
20 
2 
6 
1876. Acres 
Wheat 93 
Barley .. .. 40 
Oats 19 
Beans 32 
Peas 
First year's seeds 
Second year's seeds 
Mangolds . . 
Swedes 
Lucerne 
14 
60. 
(32 mown. 
(28 grazed. 
20 grazed. 
12 
31 
First Inspection, November 11. — As has been previously 
(mentioned, our first inspection took place after a perfect deluge 
of rain which fell on the night of the 9th, and which caused a 
very heavy flood in the Avon. No wheat had been planted on 
I the farm with the exception of that after two years' seeds, steam- 
I ploughed early. The preparation of the other wheat-land was 
I very forward, the steam-plough having been brought into requi- 
' .sition on other portions of the farm ; but the land was too wet 
iov present planting. The depth ploughed was about 7 or 8 inches, 
and in many places the blue marl, which underlies the soil here, 
had been brought up by the plough. The mangolds were all taken 
up, and were Being pitted in the field. The tegs were already on 
swedes, and looked well, though the land was very dirty. Some 
good shearling sheep were on rape, and eating 1 pint of beans, 
1 pint of grains, malt-dust, and chaff; 179 tegs were alive from 
140 ewes put to the ram. The wheat-stubbles were being 
l)loughed for the fallow-crops, and were beautifully clean. Four 
horses at length were ploughing about 7 inches in depth. The 
horses, of which nine only are kept, were capital animals, in good 
condition, and were eating 1 bushel of beans a week, and clover 
hay, without stint. After December 1st their keep is changed 
to ^ bushel of beans, 1 bushel of oats, and some roots in addition 
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