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tillage is " deep cultivation and plenty of manure." These I 
would suggest as armorial bearings for every rotation agriculturist. 
He purchases about 800 tons of horse- and cow-dung annually. 
This, in addition to home-made manures, gives a liheral allow- 
ance for green-crop. The mixture of grass-seeds sown includes 
the following, viz. : — 
6 lbs. red clover. 
4 lbs. cow-grass. 
2 lbs. alsike. 
2 lbs. white clover. 
1 lb. rib-grass. 
15 lbs. per statute acre. 
Mr. Musker's farm is in every respect a well-managed hold- 
ing. In regard to labour, there are five ploughmen employed, 
who receive 18s. a week with free house. One man receives 
221. per annum with board. Irish labourers are employed when 
required, at 18s. per week. Mr. Musker's opinion of the labour- 
question is this : expenses increasing in the ratio of one-third 
less work, at an increase of cost. It appeared to me during the 
inspection that labourers were well paid, and worked well for 
their hire. 
Warburton Park is in Cheshire, within seven miles of Man- 
chester, in the yearly occupation of Mr. Kay, and is the pro- 
perty of Roland E. E. Warburton, Esq. There are 130 statute 
acres, arable, 115 pasture land, and 90 acres of meadow, half 
light and half heavy land. Subsoil of light land a brown loamj; 
of heavy land a clay subsoil. This farm was inspected on the 
23rd of June. The rotation is a four-course shift, with part 
of the grass-land made into roots. The arable land was appor- 
tioned thus : — Wheat, 40 acres, after potatoes, beans, mangolds, 
and turnips ; oats, 39 acres ; no barley ; clover-hay, 40 acres ; 
meadow, 97 acres ; 32 acres potatoes, manured with purchased 
dung at the rate of 75 tons per Cheshire acre. The annual 
labour-bill on this farm is 1250/. The system of management 
is very perfect. A bell rings the labourers to work at 6.30 A.M., 
to stop at 11.45 A.M.; to work again at 12.50 P.M., and again 
to stop at 6. They are called at 5 A.M. The early work con- 
sists in cleaning stables, &c. 
On this farm we saw a very fine field of potatoes, also a re- 
markably good crop of oats. The fences were nicely trimmed, 
and the ditches well looked alter. In some portions of the 
root-crop the land was not quite so clean as others, but we 
thought highly of the farm as a whole. 
Mr. Kay keeps a fine class of horses ; he also breeds one or 
