in Lancashire, Cheshire, and North Wales. 
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each ear. Mr. Turton's Waterloo Wheat showed four and five 
blanks on both sides of the ear. 
The oats, being grown on cold clay, had suffered much from 
wet and were a poor crop. The green crop, likewise, gave 
indication of an adverse season. It would be well for readers to 
note Mr. Turton's mixture of grass-seeds, because he showed us 
the finest crop of first year's clover-hay in the competition ; and 
this, be it remembered, on naturally inferior land. The pro- 
portions of seeds were 5 lbs. red clover, 2£ lbs. cow-grass, 2 J lbs. 
alsike, 2 lbs. white clover, 3 lbs. rib-grass, 2£ lbs. dogstail, 
2 lbs. trefoil, necessary for such cold poor soil ; total, 19£ lbs. ; 
| bush, perennial rye-grass and ^ bush. Italian ditto. 
The field of clover-hay I have referred to was 18 acres, after 
oats. Second year's hay, 16 J acres, after oats, was a very good 
crop. Third year's hay, 16 J acres, after oats, was a capital crop. 
I may mention that Mr. Turton has laid out his fields as nearly 
as possible all of the same size. He knows full well that nothing 
but plenty of warm, well-manufactured manure can put " ani- 
mation " into cold lifeless clay. Of this manure he carts about 
250 tons from Liverpool, and makes 150 tons (more or less) at 
home. He also expends 80/. upon artificials, principally nitrate 
of soda. He finds that he can purchase discoloured nitrate at 
a cheap rate, and that its action is quite equal to that of the 
supposed purer colour. 
Mr. Turton employs 2 teams of horses, very powerful animals, 
also a pony. He has 4 cows, and their milk is all sold sweet ; 
5 two-year-old heifers and 4 calves ; also 3 breeding sows, all 
of them fit to compete in any Showyard in the kingdom. The 
poultry on this farm are very good, and a most profitable stock ; 
the number of eggs being so great that I suggested to Mrs. 
Turton the possibility of some of the hens laying twice a day, 
which she corroborated by stating she believed one particular 
hen did so. Taking this farm as a whole, there was an air of 
smartness, tidiness, and cleanliness all over the steading, which 
corresponded well with the general management of the farm. 
The tenant has been nine years in the farm. By comparison, we 
thought the rent of this farm a high one, the expenses being 
heavy. Mr. Turton keeps two carters and two labourers, at 1/. 
per week, taking on extra hands during haymaking and harvest 
as required ; and a question which arose in our minds was, 
How many men is Mr. Turton himself equal to ? I believe that 
to thoroughly master the farm as he does, his labour is equal to 
the labour of other three men. His annual expenditure for hired 
labour is 300Z. I close this notice of Burnt Mill Farm with 
the hope that Mr. Turton may live to compete again. With a 
favourable season he will, indeed, be difficult to beat. 
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