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No. 26. Lime Park, 25 a. — A part of tbis field is occupied by a plantation 
by the side of the road. 3 acres were sown with rape and grass seeds in 1876, 
and yielded about 25 cwt. of hay ; 8 acres of this field were in oats in 
1877 ; where a full dressing of lime had been applied, the crop was 8 cwt. of 
oats and 16 cwt. of straw ; but only 5 cwt. of oats and 12 cwt. of straw were 
obtained where less lime had been spread. 
3 acres of potatoes were grown, and yielded 5 tons 10 cwt. of tubers of all 
descriptions. 
A crop of 14 tons of turnips per acre was obtained over 8 acres ; one-third 
of these were fed off by sheep, and the rest were carted to the buildings. 
The roots are all grown in lazy beds. The land, having previously been 
drained, ploughed, and disc-harrowed, was trenched by hand. The men work 
in gangs under a gaffer or foreman. He commonly hiis 11 men under him, 
never 12, lest it should bring bad luck. The gafi'er, with a Scotch spade 
shaped like a hay-cutting knife, marks out the lines of a series of trenches 
18 inches wide ; one man in each trench lays the spits he digs out alternately 
right and left of him, and thus forms the ridges between the trenches. The 
lime was drawn by ox-sledge to the corner of the piece that was being trenched 
by the gafi'er or contractor, 2 of his men carried it thence on a hand-barrow to 
the ridge, and it was spread with the same long-handled spades that are used 
for the digging. 
No. 27. East Field, 60 a. 0 r. 22 p. — This field has been fenced in, and 6 acres 
of it have been ploughed up, but no draining, except making surface sheep- 
drains, has been done. 3 acres have been cropped with turnips, and yielded 
5 tons per acre. 
No. 28. Bog Pasture, 373 a. 2 r. — It is intended that 40 acres shall be re- 
claimed here, but the work has not yet commenced. 
The following table gives a summary of the cropping of Tooreeua Farm in 
1877 :— 
Ho. ! 
1 
Oats. 
Grass. 
Turnips. 
Potatoes. 
Ploughed 
and 
Drained. 
Ploughed 
or 
Drained. 
Total. 
21 
22 
23 
24 
25 
26 
27 
Knocklegaun 
Telegraph Hill .. 
Green Mount 
The Lawn . . 
Lime Park . . 
East Field .. .. 
10 
6 
4 
12 
8 
20 
6 
12 
9 
8 
3 
1 
3 
8 
5 
8 
4 
3 
8 
34 
26 
24 
17 
22 
6 
40 
4.5 
20 
4 
21 
7 
137 
It thus appears that at the oOth December, li577, 109 acres had 
been cropped, 21 acres ploughed and drained, 4 acres drained 
and 3 acres ploughed. The total expended in wages upon the 
260 acres of moorland at Tooreena was 1619/. lOs. 3d. The 
greater part of this was of course spent on the 137 acres entered 
in the table ; but as all the land has been fenced, and the 
buildings put up will serve for the whole area, it may fairly be 
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