Management of a Home Farm. 
seats is a feature peculiar to this country. Although corn-fields 
look well when harvest draws nigh, and tillage-operations are 
interesting to all persons of rural tastes, still the park, with its 
woodland, water, stately timber-trees, and spreading lawns, is 
unrivalled in perennial grandeur. Hence the landowner is more 
often bent on adding to the breadth of pasturage within view of 
the mansion than on breaking it up, and the home farm often 
contains six or eight times as many acres of grass as of arable 
land. 
The greater, then, the extent of permanent pasture, the greater 
the importance of its being well and creditably kept. Where there 
is a strong head of deer, the park is allowed to retain more uncul- 
tivated features, so that they may enjoy the fern and rank vegetation 
of their natural lair. This looks well through the summer months, 
but in autumn, winter, and spring, its aspect is often bleak and 
uninviting. Better far that the home-park and the deer-park be 
kept distinct, and under different treatment. The former will 
then assume a better aspect — it will be mown annually, close- 
grazed in autumn, never trodden or stalked in wet weather, and 
receive ample stimulating doses of artificial or farmyard manure. 
In spring the chain-harrow and clod-crusher will be in active 
operation. When moles or rabbits show themselves, extermina- 
tion will be the order of the day ; where a want of drainage is 
indicated, the want will be at once supplied, while a general 
aspect of neatness should pervade the whole. The best season 
for applying well-made yard-dung to the park is immediately 
upon the removal of the haycrop ; a far neater and greener aspect 
is thus obtained than by any other means. After a day or two 
of the July rains the dressing will hardly be visible, though its 
effects will tell for two years to come. The manure will be all 
the more valuable for the purpose, if a few hundredweights per 
acre of bonedust have been added to the compost-heap while in 
course of preparation ; and this suggests the hint that all bones 
produced on the place, in the house, farm, or dog-kennels, should 
be carefully preserved and sent to the bonemill for application to 
the land. In many places the supply thus obtained will be worth 
from lOZ. to 30/., or even 40Z. per annum. 
Rural fetes, such as hunt-meetings, volunteer-gatherings, and 
yeomanry-exercisings, entail on their public-spirited patrons 
expenses for preparing and reinstating the park, of which the 
public perhaps hardly appreciate the full extent. Besides clearing 
away litter, heavy rollings to erase the track-marks of carriages 
and horses on the soft ground, and fresh grass-seeds, if not new 
turf, will often be required. The sooner these points are at- 
tended to the better. In turning out animals to graze in the 
park, care must be taken to exclude such as have exhibited any 
