622 = 556 
Practical Agriculture. 
Mr. Clay's 
practice. 
Mr. M. 
Walker's 
practice. 
Mr. G. 
Gibbons's 
practice. 
Mr. Hosegood's 
practice. 
Mr. Charles 
Howard's and 
Mr. Checkley's 
practice. 
nearly 800Z. a year in artificial foods and manures upon a far 
of 360 acres. 
Near Oswestry, Shropshire, on 128 acres arable and 200 acr 
grass, Mr. John Clay applies 234/. worth of bones, lime, ar 
superphosphate, and consumes 234/. worth of cake, corn, grair 
malt-combs, and bran. 
At Stockley Park, near Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ( 
117 acres arable and 143 acres grass, Mr. Matthew Walke; 
artificial-manure bill comes to 106/., and his artificial-food b 
to 637/. a year, or an average of close upon 3/. per acre. 
Mr. George Gibbons, upon only 43 acres arable and 155 acr 
pasture, near Bath, buys 600/. worth of corn, grains, linseed- ai 
cotton-cake, irrespective of the corn consumed by horses ; ai 
superphosphate costs him 22/. This amounts to nearly 3/. ; 
per acre. 
Mr. Obed Hosegood, on a farm of 142 acres arable and 2 
pasture, near Ilminster, in Somersetshire, buys annually 161 
worth of nitrate of soda, superphosphate, salt, soot, and lime ; ai 
700/. worth of corn and cake. 
Mr. Charles Howard, at Biddenham, near Bedford, consum 
1720/. worth of cake and corn ; which averages over 21. per a( 
on his occupation, in addition to his expenditure of about 10( 
in artificial fertilisers. 
Near Woburn, Mr. Checkley consumes about 1400/. worth 
foods, and uses above 30/. worth of manures, or about 2/. 6s. f 
acre. 
An example in On one light-land farm of 1100 acres in Norfolk, the artifici 
Norfolk. manure bill is 1000/., and over 300 tons of oilcake are consum 
in a year. 
In Lincolnshire Heath and Wold farming, an outlay of 
per acre in manures for the root-crop, or more than 1/. per a( 
averaged over the whole farm, is not at all uncommon ; while, 
the good loams, half-a-ton weight of superphosphate, nitro-ph' 
phate, or special manure, is often applied for a crop either 
potatoes or mangolds, and much more liberal doses in growi 
prize-crops. , 
As examples of the scale on which foods and manures : 
purchased on farms in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, take I 
following cases from Mr. Frederick Clifford's exhaustive a 
valuable little book on 'The Agricultural Lock-out of 18(' 
On 800 acres, manures cost 340/. ; cake and corn, 660/. Oi 
farm of 300 acres arable and 70 pasture, cake costs 500/. ; co , 
550/. ; and artificial manures, 220/. ; or a total of 1270/. a ye 
On 864 acres arable and 50 acres pasture, the total yea 
payments for cake, corn, and artificial fertilisers, amount • 
2414/. 
Artificials in 
Lincolnshire. 
Artificials in 
Cambridge- 
shire and Suf- 
folk. 
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