524 Report on the Wancickshire Farm-Prize Competition, 1876. 
tbe food of the farm. The ewes on them got ^ lb. of rape-cake 
and \ pint of Indian com. The mangold crop was not yet har- 
vested, but a portion oi the Long Red had been tested for Messrs. 
Webb s prize, with the result I have mentioned before of nearlv 
50 tons per acre. 
In Mav 1(53 lambs were alive from 152 ewes put to the ram. 
Twelve of the theaves had proved barren, and 4 ewes had died 
during the winter or in lambing. Tegs were being clipped 
weekly for the Stratford Market. They were now on mangolds, 
and their extra food has been previouslv mentioned. Some 
clipped tegs bought in since our previous inspection were also 
being marketed, and were leaving their wool and 4^. or 5s. a 
head for about two months' keep. The homed stock generallt 
was in good condition, and the dairy cows especially taking. 
The crops were generallv looking fairly, though some of them 
were a little weedv. The wheat had all been harrowed, but 
little of it hoed. Beans and peas were being hand- and horse- 
hoed, and were looking well. The barley (some of which had 
only been sown a fortnight) was only just peeping, and the 
mangold just showing from the ground. On a 20-acre piece of 
wheat, part of which had been sown after beans and peas, and 
part after bean-turnips, we had an opportunitv of comparing 
the two crops, and it must be confessed that, so far as appear- 
ances then went, it was in favour of the former. The wheat had 
much of it a somewhat vellow cast, and from the small quantity 
of seed used did not make so much show as most of that in the 
neighbourhood. 
In July the farm was unmistakably suffering from drought, 
which had somewhat severelv affected this part of arwickshire, 
and was of course peculiar! v felt on this description of land. 
The wheat, however, had grown into a grand crop with little 
exception. A large proportion of Scotch Square Head," which 
I believe to be the same as " Scholey's Square Head," descril>ed in 
Mr. ^Morton s Report in this • Joumal ' (vol. x.. y.S., p. 102. 1874), 
had been sown, and was especiallv promising. An 18-acre piece 
(Orchard Close ) might probablv fairly be estimated at 48 bushels 
an acre. Peas had been pulled for the Birmingham Market, and 
had realised 12/. per acre, the purchaser paving all cost of gather- 
ing, and leavin? the whole of the haulm and many siftall peas. 
This land had alreadv been cultivated, and was awaiting a shower 
for mustard and rape to be drilled upon it. The bean-turnips 
were sadly in want of rain, and although there apj>eared to be a 
fair plant, it was too soon to say at present whether there would 
be a crop of them. The swedes after clover were, however, set out, 
and onlv wanted a shower to ensure their safety. Green Globe 
turnips were just coming up after vetches : and swedes after rye, 
