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which are heavily dressed with Proctor and Ryland's artificial 
special manure. Barley succeeds this crop, and is drilled <at the 
rate of 3 bushels to the acre. Seeds are sown with barley, viz., 
red clover and trefoil, together 12 lbs., with 1 peck of Italian 
rye-grass, to the acre ; they are principally mown and made into 
clover-hay. Oats are sown in the spring, the variety being 
Canadian, at 4i bushels to the acre, and when malt-dust can be 
procured, they are top-dressed at the rate of half a ton to the acre: 
this is found to be a ffood tillajje. Wheat is sown after oats, which 
ends the rotation. Hallett's Pedigree and Browick lied are the 
varieties of wheat usually sown. None of the crops were first-rate, 
but from the nature of the soil they were as good as might have 
been expected. The grass-land had a much better appearance ; 
and one pasture, which is irrigated, produces a rich and bountiful 
herbage. Mr. Walker has greatly improved some of the grass on 
the higher land by foldyard manure, which in time, if continued, 
will make the produce nearly, if not quite, equal to that on the 
lower part of the farm. His system of stocking the pastures by 
continued changes keeps them thriving, and doubtless is the proper 
mode of grazing, having also a beneficial effect upon the milking 
cows. Forty-eight cows are kept for milking, and the milk is 
made into cheese. Fifteen heifer calves are reared, and bulled 
Avhen two years old, to keep up the stock ; the cast cows are 
milked through the winter, and their milk is made into cheese ; 
when near calving they are sent to market and sold. Cows, in 
the winter, are tied up in a cowshed ; and Mr. Walker informed 
us that 50 cows and 20 yearlings consumed weekly 120 bushels 
of grains and 1 ton in weight of mangolds, pulped and given with 
chopped straw, and an allowance of 1 lb. of Indian corn-meal 
each per day. The yearlings are kept loose in a covered yard. 
The cows, when approaching calving, are allowed an increased 
quantity of meal. Artificial food is continued through the 
summer, and 48 cows were having, at the time of our visit, 120 
bushels of grains and 56 stones of sharps weekly, costing 8/. per 
ton. They are fed morning and evening. Grains are bought 
at Burton at Ad. per bushel, and the meal and grains are mixed 
dail}'. The stock of beasts upon the farm comprised 48 cows, 
2 bulls, 21 yeav-and-a-half-olds, and 16 calves, making a total 
of 107 head. 
A small flock of 33 Shropshire-down ewes is kept, producing, 
on an average, a lamb and a half to a ewe. The lambs winter 
upon the grass, with an allowance of artificial food and a very 
small quantity of roots. They are sold off after clipping and 
when fat. 
Pifjs. — A very valuable class of pigs is kept for breeding, 
Mr. Walker paying the greatest attention to this department. 
