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width of the rows, !Mr. Lane's answer would be, that in 1875, 
with the wide rows 31 inches apart, he threshed an average ot 
36 bushels per acre of beans, which produced 10/. 10s., and that 
this was certainly under, rather than over, the general result. 
On the pea portion of the break the same svstem of extra 
cropping is adopted, but a different course is pursued. About 
four or five acres are generally drilled 14 inches apart, and at the 
rate of 3 bushels an acre, some early variety being selected (such 
as Sangster's No. 1) which may be suitable for pulling green 
for the market. Between every third row and at a distance of 
42 inches apart every way, drumhead cabbages are planted about 
the beginning of May. The peas are sold to pick for the Bir- 
mingham market, and last year the satisfactory price of lOZ. 10^. 
. per acre was realised, the haulm being left and the purchaser 
' paying all expense of labour in picking. It will readily be under- 
stood, with what facility the subsequent cultivation of the cabbage- 
crop is attended. The horse-hoe is enabled to work without 
hindrance between the rows in each direction, and very little 
hand-labour is therefore required. The cabbage-crop at our 
November visit was capital. It was already stocked with the 
I ewes, who were eating half a pound of rape-cake and half a 
' pint of Indian corn, and were thus adding to the fertility of the 
land. 
Only part of this break (as I have mentioned) is thus treated. 
The remainder is planted with peas for a crop ; but it must not 
be supposed that where they are thus allowed to remain, Mr. 
Lane is content without his extra crop. In this case, imme- 
diately they are harvested, rape, mustard, or turnips are quickly 
put in, whichever may be most required according to the circum- 
stances of the young sheep-stock. 
Wheat follows each and all of these extra crops, and completes 
I the rotation. The time of sowing of this part of the wheat-break 
necessarily varies somewhat. Mr. Lane says: "I commence as 
Isoon in ]\ ovember as I can, and never plant after December if I 
'can help it. I dislike spring-wheat, and if I have a portion of 
'bean-turnips eaten off late, I prefer oats, which come off early, 
and I can get a brush crop of turnips again by the aid of the 
water-drill, after which the regular fallow mangold-crop comes 
in order." The only thing necessary to remark in the case of 
either the wheat or the oats following these extra crops, is the 
small quantity of seed used, which in the case of wheat is from 
» to 6 pecks, and in that of oats 2 bushels per acre. If any 
portion of the wheat seems in the spring to require a stimulant, 
it is top-dressed with 1 cwt. of nitrate of soda and 1 cwt. of 
jone-manure. 
Such is a brief resume of the ordinary farm-practice upon 
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