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XX. — On the Use of Growing Mustard for Feed, or to Plough 
in as a Preparation for a Wheat Crop. By George Jesty. 
Sir, — As a member of the Society, feeling anxious to communicate any- 
thing where there is a chance of improvement, I beg to hand you the 
following statement on the use of growing mustard for feed, or to plougli 
in as a preparation for a wheat-crop. It is very palatable to all kinds 
of cattle, and I believe very wholesome : I think it far preferable to 
buck-wheat, or any other vegetable with such rapid growth. I sowed 
5 acres on the 11th of July last, on rather inferior land, of a light gra- 
velly soil with chalk subsoil, where early turnips for wheat had failed. 
It should be drilled 5 inches apart, with 12 pounds of seed per acre. 
On the 25th of August I had measured portions cut, in different parts 
of the field, and weighed, which, on a fair calculation, yielded 6 tons 
per acre — it was in full bloom — and the next day I ploughed it in ; which 
I consider, being full of vegetable matter, must be an excellent dressing 
for a wheat-crop. I would invite any friend to make trial of mustard on 
better land than mine ; the expense being so trifling compared with 
buck-wheat, which is 5^. per bushel, and requiring 2^ bushels per acre, 
would be \2s.Q>d.\ whereas 12 lbs. of mustard-seed, at 2d. per lb., 
the price it is now selling at, would be 2s. per acre. 
Any further information on this subject (if required) I shall be most 
ready to answer ; 
And remain, Sir, 
If our obedient humble servant, 
George Jesty. 
Druce Farm, Puddletown, near 
Dorchester, Sept. 4, 1843. 
XXI. — Successful Industry of a Labourer. By J. Barton. 
In passing through Norfolk lately, I met with such a remarkable and 
pleasing mstance of successful industry that I think the particulars may 
interest the members of the Royal Agricultural Society. Edmond 
Chaney, of Carlton Rode, 11 miles south-east of Norwich, aged forty- 
nine years, was brought home to his parish about twenty years ago, with 
a family of six children. The overseers granted him an allowance of 
2s. ad. per week, and supplied him with a wheelbarrow, desiring him 
to try to find employment in wheeling out marl from the pit to the land. 
He obtained work of this sort from a farmer in a neighbouring parish, 
who, finding him a sensible and industrious man, kindly lent him monev 
to buy a donkey, and afterwards a pony, which he repaid from the pro- 
duce of his labour. Some time afterwards, by the advice and assistance 
of the same kind friend, he engaged to rent 4 acres of land belonging 
to the parish in which he was settled. This undertaking proving suc- 
cessful, he hired 24 acres more, nine years ago last Michaelmas. Two 
years later, he engaged 23 acres more — 14 of arable, and 9 of fen land — 
