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more than a passing notice ; but after the length to which this 
Report has already extended, I shall only make a brief allusion 
to them. Fletchamstead Hall, in the occupation of Mr. William 
Twycross Wakefield, is about 2^ miles west of Coventry, and 
adjoins the main line of the London and North- Western Railway 
to Birmingham. It consists of 218 acres of arable land and 242 
of pasture, making a total of 460 acres. The land varies a good 
deal, some of it being heavyish marl and other lighter turnip-soil. 
A good deal of the grass land (of which it will be observed there- 
is a large proportion) is of inferior quality, but the arable land 
is of a kind which, with careful management, grows excellent 
crops of wheat, of barley, of beans and peas, and of roots. The 
six-course system is adopted, and the following is the usual 
acreage of cropping : — 
Acres. 
Wheat 80 
Barley 20 
Beans 40 
Oats 10 
Swedes, mangold or turnips 25 
Rape catch crop 16 
Mr. Wakefield is emphatically an improving tenant, and great 
alterations have been carried out on the farm during his occupa- 
tion. A large amount of draining has been executed by him, 
the landlord finding tiles ; and many fences have been grubbed 
up and fields thrown together with the object of improved culti- 
vation. Steam-power is occasionally used for breaking up wheat- 
stubbles and two years' seeds. A large quantity of night-soil is 
brought from Coventry ; some of it is used for dressing the 
mowing-meadows, the remainder being applied to the arable 
land. Grains are used to a great extent, and the stock of cattle 
being very large, there is a considerable expenditure in other 
kinds of food also. 
The amount so spent amounted in 1875 to 408Z. 65. 7c?., besides 
which corn, to the value of 229/. 14*., the growth of the farm,, 
was consumed. The manure-bill is also large, amounting in the 
same year to 358Z. 105. 3J. 
There were 94 cattle in stock in May, all Shorthorns of a very 
useful quality. Several of these were barren cows, which were 
grazing and being fattened off. The cattle and sheep were nearly 
all getting more or less cake or corn on the land. A few dairy 
cows are kept and their calves reared, but Mr. Wakefield's generai 
practice is to buy and sell, according to his keep, tScc. The 
sheep-stock amounted to 398 in November and 335 in May. A 
flock of 130 Oxford ewes is kept, and their lambs go away as 
fat tegs. 
Mr. Wakefield showed his farm under most disadvantageous 
