in Lancashire, Cheshire, and North Wales. 
Of these crops, the harley, heing in the shot blade, did not 
show to the same advantage as it would do at a later period, but 
promised to be a fine crop. The oats, which were grown after 
beans, were a magnificent crop. I should estimate them at over 
80 bushels per acre. 
The wheat — one field in particular — was a beautiful crop, 
and with favourable circumstances its yield would be very large. 
Another field of wheat had suffered from the wet weather, but 
was still a fair good crop. 
The turnips were healthy and vigorous. 
Potatoes showed a fine sheen on the leaf, indicating health 
and vigour in the plants from plenty of manure at the roots, and 
promised to be a good crop. 
The hay was most excellent, and the meadows showed a large 
bulk. 
The stock on the farm consisted of — 
8 working-horses of a capital class. 
2 colts, two years old. 
1 do. yearling. 
1 do. yearling — half-bred. 
1 foal. 
15 store-pigs. 
3 breeding-sows. 
1 boar of the most approved breed. 
4 milking-cows. 
2 heifers, two years old. 
8 yearling heifers. 
3 calves. 
1 Shorthorn bull. 
The horses are fed on hay, corn, steamed roots, bran and chaff 
in winter, and corn and grass in summer. The cows are fed on 
turnips and Indian corn-meal in winter, and grass and hay in 
summer. The pigs are fed on steamed potatoes and offal grain- 
flour, and Indian corn-meal in winter, and Indian flour, steamed, 
in summer. 
The class of implements was good and varied, admirably suited 
for the tillage of the farm. 
The sum expended on labour is from 800/. to 1000/. yearly, 
but of course this is regulated by the labour-market and any 
difference in the cropping of the farm. 
The quantity of manure used on the farm may be estimated at 
1000 tons annually, with the addition of 8 tons of nitrate of soda, 
and 1 ton of phospho-guano ; the nitrate being nearly all applied 
to the grass-land for hay. With regard to the grain-crops of this 
farm, I would draw special attention to the large field of oats 
