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A O R I C U L T U R A L EDUCATION. 
Senior Examination Papers, 1876. 
EXAMINATION IN AGEICULTURE. 
Maximum Number of Marks, 200. Pass Number, 100. 
Tuesday, April 18th, from 10 a.m. till 1 p.m. 
1. State the number of loads of farmyard-manure wliicli will be 
produced by 12 oxen fed upon turnips, linseed-cake, and corn with 
chaff in an ordinary bnllock-yard which has been littered down with 
40 tons of mixed wheat and barley straw. 
2. How many men, horses, and two-horse carts will be required 
for filling, removing to a field half-a-mile from the homestead, and 
there forming into a drawn muck heap, in three days, all the manure 
made as per question No. 1. 
3. Supposing the men filling manure in the previous question are 
considered to be earning half-a-crown a day, at piece-work, how much 
per load should they be paid to enable them to do so ? 
4. Had the manure in question No. 1 been spread instead of carted 
to a heap, what number of men would be required for the work to 
complete botli operations at the same time ? 
5. A 20-acrc field with an average crop of wheat on a medium soil 
has to be carried and stacked on the spot. Light two-hor?e waggons 
to be used, and the stacks to be round, with bottoms of eight yards 
diameter. State the number of men, horses, and waggons required 
for pitching, loading, and stacking the same during one long harvest 
day, also the number of stacks to be made. 
6. There is a 20-acre field of swedes with an average weight of 
18 tons to the acre. Half the crop is to be carted to tljc homestead 
and consumed in the yards by the oxeu, the remainder fed uiion the 
land by hoggets, eating half a jiound of calcc and corn with chaff, per 
day, the turnips being cut in the usual way. How many bullocks 
must be bought for the yards, and how many sheep can be ke2)t from 
the 1st of November to the 1st of March ? 
7. A farm of GOO acres consists of 500 acres arable and 100 acres 
pasture. The former is the liglit mixed loam, known as turnip and 
barley land, at a rental of 35s. jier acre. The pasture is sound dry 
sheep land. The tenancy is a Michaelmas one. Rotation, four cour.se, 
with the usiial covenants of Norfolk and tlie Eastern Counties. State 
