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Account of Shepherd's Comer Farm. 
1840. Tliree years' ley, feed for 200 sheep for 14 weeks; 8 acres of 
eastern end, mown, crop i ton per acre; this was folded last 
winter with sheep. 
1841. Old red- straw wheat ; 2 bush, drilled per acre ; plant failed on 
the western side owing to the injury done by a neighbour's 
rabbits, and was sown with barley, 4 bush, seed per acre, 
crop 30 bush.; 2 acres western end, vetches, seed 3 bush., 
part of it seeded, part of it cut for oxen; other 28 acres, 
good crop of wheat 28 bush, per acre. 
1842. Western end peas; seed 4 bush, per acre for 10 acres; crop 
20 bush, per acre; 5 acres vetches, moderate crop; this and 
remainder of eastern part sown to common turnip, manured 
with 20 bush, bone-dust and ashes; sown in July; total 
failure ; 2 acres potatoes, 14 loads dung per acre, and 
330 bush, per acre for crop. 
1843. Oats. 
No. 3. — Willets — 3*7 acres, 1 rood, 25 perches. 
1827-8. Digged to the depth of 9 inches, surface-soil buried. 
1828. Oats ; seed 6 bush. ; crop 20 bush, each per acre. 
1829. Half of it sown to rape ; 3 lbs. seed per acre ; very partial 
crop ; 3 acres potatoes, seed 8 sacks, no dung ; crop 
160 bush, per acre ; 2 acres vetches, poor crop ; the re- 
mainder lying rough. 
1830. Oats after rape and potatoes; seed 6 bush, per acre; crop 
20 bushels ; the remainder uncultivated. 
1831. Uncultivated, waiting for chalk. 
1831-2. Chalked; sown to common turnip, seed 3 lbs. ; middling 
crop ; keep for 200 sheep 16 weeks. 
1833. Oats; seed 6 bush. ; crop 32 bush, each per acre ; grass-seeds 
per acre, 1 bush, rye-grass, 10 lbs. trefoil, 2 lbs. white 
Dutch clover ; a winter's run here for sheep from turnips. 
1834. Clover-seeds; mown li ton per acre; winter keep for 200 
sheep for 6 weeks ; the whole muckled over. 
1835. Two'years' ley; 12 acres hurdled off for 200 sheep for 4 weeks; 
the other part mown, crop 1 J ton per acre; winter keep 
with hay for 200 sheep for 6 weeks. 
1836. Old red-straw wheat; seed 3^ bush. ; crop 28 bush, per acre. 
1837. Ten acres winter vetches ; moderate crop, eaten off by sheep ; 
2 acres trifolium, a failure ; 25 acres common turnips, 
manured with 30 bush, turf-ashes per acre ; partial crop ; 
keep for 200 sheep for 1 2 weeks. 
1838. Oats; 6 bush, seed ; good crop 28 bush. ; grass-seeds as in 
1833 ; the 2 acres after trifolium uncultivated. 
1839. One year's ley; mown crop 1 ton per acre ; winter's run for 
200 sheep ; 2 acres uncultivated ; left for an experiment 
with trifolium. 
