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oats in the previous year, looked very well, except 3 acres 
tliiunecl by the wireworni. Nine pecks had been drilled to the 
acre, and to each acre of land had been applied 3 cwt. of 
Meggitt's dissolved bones. A field of 13 acres of white 
chaff red wheat, after red clover, was exceptionally good and 
strong. It had been drilled with 9 pecks to the acre. The 
straw was of quite extraordinary length, and only with great 
difficulty could the Judges walk through the field. 
Seven acres of wheat, Webb's Golden Drop, after red 
clover, drilled at the rate of 7 to 8 pecks per acre, looked 
remarkably well. The crop was really all that the heart of a 
farmer could desire or his eye delight to contemplate. 
Another field of 9 acres of wheat, red and white mixed, 
after clover in 1887, was also magnificent, and was unanimously 
admitted by the Judges to be one of the finest pieces of wheat 
they had anywhere seen. 
A field of Webb's Golden Grain Barley, 7 acres in extent, 
after wheat in 1887, had been dressed with 3 cwt. of dissolved 
bones to the acre, and the crop was very good, except that a 
good deal of coltsfoot and some sow thistles were discernible. 
This field had been cropped out of its rotation, which accounted 
for the ,under-gx-owth of weeds. 
Another field of barley, Webb's Chevalier, after barley in 
1887, was exceptionally good and clean. The land had been 
prepared with 12 loads of farmyard manure and 3 cwt. of 
bones, and the barley had been drilled at th.e rate of 9 pecks to 
the acre. 
There were 25 acres of Carter's White Challenge Oats, 
after swedes in the previous year. This oat is one of the earliest 
in cultivation. The field had been drilled at the rate of 
6 bushels to the acre, which the Judges considered rather too 
thick ; nevertheless, the crop looked exceedingly promising. It 
had been twice horse-hoed, and once hand-hoed. 
Two fields of red clover, each 16 acres in extent, were being 
gi'azed with ewes and lambs. In one case the clover was 
an indifferent plant, owing to the very dry summer of 1887 ; 
and in a few places patches of couch-grass might be observed — 
the only specimens, by the way, to be seen anywhere on the 
farm. The other field was similarly pastured at the time when 
the writer saw it in May ; but the clover plant was very thin, 
and, previous to the last visit of the Judges, the field had been 
steam-cultivated twice, at a cost of 12s. per acre. The soil 
of this field is very stiff, forming part of a tract extending in a 
northerly direction from Bourne to Lincoln, and such cultiva- 
tion was the best course to be adopted in the circumstances. 
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