Report on the Warxoichshire Farm-Prize Competition, 1876. 513 
The above list offers no remarkable features, and is intended 
simply as an introduction to some description of the manage- 
ment of the " extra crops" as I prefer to call them. It maj, 
however, be convenient to follow the general management of 
I the land, and to describe these crops in due course. 
Fallow. — The wheat stubbles, after being carefully forked 
over in the autumn, are manured with 11 or 12 loads of farm- 
, yard muck per acre, and receive their one ploughing as soon as 
' convenient. Early in April the mangolds are drilled at the 
rate of 6 lbs. per acre, and 24 inches apart ; 2 cwt. of bone 
superphosphate being applied with the liquid-manure drill, and 
a further 2 cwt. sown broadcast at the same time. The after 
cultivation of this crop does not require any description, but 
j the excellent nature of Mr. Lane's management may be judged 
from the fact that last autumn he took the prize offered by 
Messrs. Webb, of Worcester, for the heaviest crop of mangolds 
grown with their manure; and that the Judges appointed to 
superintend the competition ascertained that the quantity actually 
grown by him amounted to 49 tons 7 cwt. 2 qrs. per acre. The 
sort was Long Red, and the roots were carefully topped and 
cleaned before measurement, A fine sort of Yellow Globe, how- 
ever, is more generally grown, and if it scarcely produces so 
heavy a weight per acre, it seems to make up in quality for any 
deficiency of that kind. After an inspection of the very fine 
crops of mangolds which we saw in November last, we could 
not doubt that Mr. Lane exercises a very wise discretion in 
appropriating nearly the whole of the fallow break to this useful 
root. About two-thirds of the crop is fed upon the land with 
\ sheep, and the remainder consumed by cattle in the yards. 
I The swedes are cultivated in much the same manner. Only 
one ploughing is allowed, except in very rare cases ; and the 
land is treated with the same quantity of muck. About the 
middle of May they are drilled on the flat, about 2 cwt. per 
acre of Lawes' or Webb's bone manure being put in by the 
water-drill with the seed. Only about 5 or 6 acres are gene- 
rally sown, and about half the crop is drawn off for the use 
of the ewes at lambing time. 
A small portion (about 4 acres) of this break is appropriated 
1 to vetches, for early use in the spring ; and the following is the 
I seeding generally adopted : — 1st acre, 1 bushel rye and 2 of 
vetches ; 2nd acre, 1 bushel winter oats and 2 of vetches ; 3rd 
and 4th acres, 3 bushels of vetches each. This land is after- 
wards broken up and sown with turnips, " Imperial Green 
Globe," from selected and self-raised bulbs, being the sort 
preferred. 
Barlei/, which follows the root-crops, is sown from the end 
