652 = 380 Dairy Farming. 
as high a price as any in the district has been ahnost alway 
produced. At the smallest of the homesteads, in a village, nev 
milk is now sold throughout the year, and a considerable 
quantity of milk-butter is made, and the skim-milk is used ii 
rearing heifer calves and feeding pigs. At the other two large 
, homesteads, though a large quantity of cheese is still made ii 
the summer months, the practice is supplemented by the sal 
of milk to London, and the making of a large quantity of milk 
butter, in the winter months, when both milk and butter ar. 
scarce and dear." 
A Staffordshire Here, then, we have the whole four departments of dair 
dairy farm. management under one tenancy. The adaptation of the farm 
cropping in this case may be taken as a sample of the bes 
style of English dairy management ; and a short account of thes 
farms may therefore fairly claim a place in a Report on Englis 
Dairy Husbandry. 
The Croxden Abbey Farms. — There are three farms, Croxde 
Hollington, and Nothill, near Uttoxeter, forming together a 
unbroken holding, along with 60 acres of grass-land at som 
distance, in Mr. Carrington's hands ; and altogether they in 
elude 640 acres, of which some 80 are now arable, nearly 10' 
acres of the land most unsuited for tillage having been pei 
manently seeded. The soil is generally a strong loam. Th 
lower fields, receiving water from gravel-beds higher up th 
valley, are used for irrigation ; and about 50 acres of early gras: 
obtained in this way, form a useful addition to the early sprin 
keep of the farm. The liquid manure is flushed at interva 
into the stream, and turned on to one and another of the fielc 
next the several homesteads. 
Of the 80 acres of arable land there are in general 2 i 
potatoes, 10 in mangold-wurzel, 10 in cabbages, 6 in turnip 
8 in clover, 20 in wheat, 20 in oats, and 4 in barley. Tl 
cabbage crop (Drumheads) is sown in August, and the plan 
are before winter transplanted into a plot, 2 or 3 inches apar 
in rows a foot apart ; and a capital bed of strong, stocky plan 
is thus ready in May for transplantation, the Iz^nd being a 
manured and ploughed and prepared for the plants, which ai 
put in about 3 feet apart all over the ground. These cabbage 
are used on the pastures for the cows and young stock duric 
the autumn months. 
The manure of the farm goes on the mangold and cabbaj| 
land, as well as to some extent on the meadows and young gras( 
Mr. Carrington depends wholly on his dressing of superphoj 
phate and nitrate of soda for his swede crop. The former | 
applied at the time of sowing, at the rate of 6 cwt. per acrj 
the latter, 1 cwt. to 2 cwt. per acre, when the turnips are hoed oui 
