Accoimt of Shepherd's Corner Farm. 
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1840. Two years' ley; luilf of it mown, crop 1 ton; 2 acres self-sown 
trifolium, otlicr part summer feed fur 200 sheep for 8 weeks. 
1841. Three years' ley ; fed off by sheep, 200 for 16 weeks ; 2 acres 
trifolium. 
1842. Old red straw wheat; 2^ bush, seed (some golden-drop 
mixed), tlie crop 24 bush, per acre ; the wliole (excepting 
, 2 acres trifolium) manured with 10 loads dung per acre; 
and about two-thirds of the whole folded over with slieep. 
1843. Winter vetches, hybrid turnips, peas, and rye-grass, &c. 
No. 4. — Higher Ball — 34 acres, 2 roods, 37 perches. 
1827- 8. Digged to the depth of 9 inches about 12 acres on the west 
side ; the surface-soil not buried. 
1828. Oats 12 acres ; seed 6 bush. ; good crop, 24 bushels per acre 
grass-seeds sown. 
1828- 9. Digged east side, 22^ acres to the depth of 9 inches ; grass- 
seeds. 
1829. Uncultivated ; sheep-feed good rough grass. 
1830. Ditto ditto ditto 
1831. Ditto ditto ditto 
1832. Oats ; seed 6 bush. ; crop 18 bush, per acre. 
1832-3. Chalked on the rough grassy stubble, which is the best system. 
1833. Common turnip, seed 3 lbs. per acre ; crop very good; keep 
for 300 sheep 20 weeks. 
1834. Oats; seed 6 bush.; good crop, 40 bushels per acre ; grass- 
seeds sown, 1 bush. Devon ray, 10 lbs. trifolium, and 2 lbs. 
Dutch clover. 
1835. Young clover ; mown, Ij ton per acre ; winter keep with hay 
for 200 sheep for 4 weeks. 
1836. Two years' ley ; half field mown, crop 1 ton ; other part pas- 
tured by sheep. 
1837. Old red-straw wheat; 3 bush, per acre; crop 25 bush. 
per acre. 
1838. Twenty-si.K and a half acres to common turnip, manured with 
12 bush, bone-dust and ashes; moderate crop ; 200 sheep 
fed ibr 18 weeks ; 4 acres beans, seed 4 bush., failure ; peas 
4 acres, light crop, 12 bush. 
1839. Oats; 6 bush, seed per acre ; crop 30 bush. ; grass-seeds as 
in 1834. 
1840. Young clover; mown, crop H ton per acre. 
1841. Two years' ley; half of it mown, crop f ton, half fed by 200 
sheep for 12 weeks. 
1842. Three years' ley ; all pastured by sheep ; two-thirds of field 
manured with 12 loads dung per acre; and one-third folded 
over by sheep. 
1843. Wheat; dunged and sown in September. 
