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Rvland's) to the acre ; the land is ridged, and then sown with from 
5 to 7 lbs. of mangold-seed to the acre, as early in April as the land 
can be got ready and the season will admit. When the plants 
are sufficiently grown, they are scarified and hoed at a cost of Gs. 
per acre ; sundry scarifyings completing the work. In the month 
of November they are pulled, and stored by the homestead. 
Barlei/. — Barley follows turnips. The portion of turnips 
left on the land having been consumed by sheep eating oil-cake 
the land is ploughed as soon as possible, in order to secure the 
ameliorating influence of winter and spring frosts. It is most 
important to have a thoroughly pulverized seed-bed for barley, 
hence the reason that no roots are consumed on the land after the 
middle of March. Thus treated, a seed-bed can usually be 
obtained by simply harrowing down the surface, and the cost of 
cultivation is thereby reduced. The barley is then drilled at the 
rate of 11 pecks per acre, commencing as early in March as 
the season will admit. Invariably the earliest sown seed pro- 
duces the best quality of corn. 
Oats. — Barley being found the most profitable spring corn- 
crop, oats are not grown as a rule. This year, however, some 
old pasture land has been broken up, with a view to relaying, 
and oats have been taken as the first crop. 
These oats are a remarkably heavy crop, secured by merely 
ploughing the turf and rolling down, the oats afterwards being 
drilled. This practice is not usually attended with success, but in 
this case nothing can exceed their present promise of abundance. 
Seeds. — Clovers are sown after barley, and occasionally in 
wheat grown after turnips. The land is divided into three equal 
portions, and a different mixture sown on each, so that on the 
return of the rotation the same varieties of clovers may not be 
used. Clovers for mowing are generally sown among the spring 
wheat, on about one-third of the land in the shift, and are com- 
posed of the following mixture — 
12 lbs. red clover ; 
2 to 3 lbs. white clover ; 
1 peck of Pacey's rye-grass to the acre. 
For depasturage, the following is sown on a second third of 
the course — 
6 lbs. of alsike ; 
2 bushels Italian rye-grass. 
And the following, also for depasturage, on the remaining 
third — 
White, trefoil, rib-grass, and parsley, of those altogether 
14 lbs. to the acre; with cock's-foot, tiniothv, and rye- 
grass, 2 pecks. 
The whole of the seeds are sown by barrow-drill. 
