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nmsclo, and are generally strong carriage horses, j)ni'chased with a blemish, 
wliicli does not affect their work, and yet prevents the price from being very 
extravagant." 
The Haddenham Manor farm is a nice sandy loam, resting on 
the Portland oolite, and, as frequently occurs in this formation, has 
a small portion of it peat. This formerly grew hardly anything, 
but now oats, Italian ryegrass, carrots, mangolds, &c., flourish on 
it. Last year it produced a particularly fine crop of barley, the 
land being previously ploughed very deeply, which brought up 
fragments of a marly subsoil. A good dressing of lime was then 
applied, the barley dibbled, and repeatedly hoed and clod- 
crushed. The straw was stiff and bright, and the produce of the 
crop was 8 quarters to the acre. It is not intended to offer these 
or any other remarks as a model by which to farm all the light 
lands of Bucks, but portions of this system might be useful for 
almost all farms, and every intelligent man would know what 
part was applicable to his own occupation. The repeated clod- 
crushings might too much consolidate the lands of the Chilterns, 
and beans do not appear to flourish in that district ; but otherwise 
the rotation of cropping, and the general high farming, especially 
the better manufacture of farmyard manure, would greatly im- 
prove the present cultivation of the chalks. 
Many similar interesting details from various agriculturists, as 
well as some pleasing descriptions of successful farming, especi- 
ally that on the Scotch system pursued so admirably at Winslow, 
could be added, but, notwithstanding the desire to confine these 
remarks within reasonable limits, it is feared the length has 
already extended itself so as to tire the patience of most readers. 
The writer, in drawing this Report to a conclusion, cannot dismiss 
it without offering his best thanks to all those gentlemen who 
have so courteously furnished him with such useful information, 
and permitted him the opportunity of inspecting their several 
farms. In no one instance has he to pass the cjuestionable com- 
pliment recorded in the last Report, that certain yeomen " were 
very respectable men, but not over-communicative on agricul- 
tural matters." The intelligent farmers of the county appear 
quite willing to impart their information to others, and the writer 
wishes to express his deep sense of the gratitude he owes to those 
gentlemen, and he hopes that the strictures and animadversions 
he has felt it his duty to make may not offend, but provoke the 
energy and resolution to amend those defects which still exist 
in the farming of Buckinghamshire. 
