Account of Shr2>hei d's Corner Farm. 
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1642. Black oats; seed 5 busli. per ncrc, (liillcd (6 loads dung per 
acre after peas and vetches) ; crop 30 bu^h. per acre ; grass- 
seeds as in 1832. 
1843. Young clover. 
No. 2. — North Free Down — 34 acres, 2 roods, 3*7 perches. 
1826-7. Digged to the depth of 9 inches ; surface-soil buried. 
1827. Oats; seed 6 bush, jier acre; moderate crop. 
1828. Western half of field left with oats self-sown ; the other half 
with common and Swedish turnip ; the oats much infested 
wiih fern, &c. ; crop 16 bush, per acre; 5 acres swede 
tiuiiips, 6 loads dung per acre; moderate crop; common 
turnips, 12^ acres, land previously folded over by sheep, 
moderate crop; keep for 300 sheep for 8 weeks. 
1829. About one-half of the oat-stubble land lying rough; the other 
]'art of field sown to white oats, seed 6 bush, per acre; crop 
28 bush, per acre. 
1830. Uncultivated; left in a grassy rough state for the purpose of 
future experiment, it being certain that until after chalking 
it would not pay for tillage. 
1830-1. Nineteen acres western part pared and burned at a cost of 
I2s. per acre; the remainder chalked at 3bs. per acre; 
32^ acres sown to common turnip; a good crop ;. the best 
crop after the paring and burning; keep for 200 sheep 
16 weeks; 2 acres planted with potatoes, seed 8 sacks per 
acre ; 10 loads of dung per acre ; the crop 480 bush, per acre. 
1832. Oats and grass-seeds; oat-seed 6 bush. ; crop 50 bush, per 
acre; grass-seeds (rye grass 1 bush., trefoil 10 lbs., Dutch 
clover 2 lbs.), winter keep on seeds for 200 sheep for 4 weeks. 
1833. Clover-ley, mown, good crop li ton per acre ; 200 sheep on 
turnips running here part of the winter ; western half folded 
over by sheep. 
1834. Two years' ley ; about half of it mown, crop 1 ton per acre ; 
the other half summer fed by sheep, 200 for 16 weeks. 
1835. Wheat (that part which was mown was folded over by sheep 
in winter, and one-half of that summer fed by sheep was 
manured with 10 loads of dung per acre) ; seed 3J bush. ; 
crop 32 bush, per acre. 
1836. Common turnip, manured with 12 bush, bone-dust and ashes; 
not a good crop; keep for 200 sheep 16 weeks (6 acres 
eastern end vetches, 3 bush, seed per acre ; not a good crop ; 
land sown to common turnip). 
1837. Oats; 6 bush, seed, pretty good crop, 32 bush, per acre; grass- 
seeds as in 1832; winter keep for 200 sheep for 4 weeks. 
1838. Clover-ley, mown, crop li ton per acre; run for 200 sheep 
from turnips. 
1839. Two years' ley, mown, 3j tons per acre; winter's run for 200 
sheep on turnips. 
