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Report on the Farm Prize Competition 
For his seed crop Mr. Wadsley sows nothing but red clover, 
and, with a view to keep it clear of couch-grass, it is customary 
to plough a small headland round the clover-fields, making it a 
dead fallovv. 
The cultivation of mangold is a conspicuous feature in the 
management of this farm, and Mr. Wadsley has at various 
times carried off 16 prizes in competitions open to the United 
Kingdom for the heaviest weights produced on 2 acres by the 
aid of Messrs. Proctor & Rylands' manures. The weight of 
his mangold crop for the last three years has averaged 47 tons 
per acre. Under this crop we found 7 acres, consisting chiefly 
of Coxe's Yellow Globe, with a small quantity of Suttons'. For 
growing mangold the land is always very carefully prepared. It 
is first ploughed deep early in the autumn, then rolled,' cul- 
tivated, harrowed, and manured with 30 loads of farmyard 
dung applied during winter. It is then ploughed 7 inches 
deep, cultivated, flat-rolled, harrowed, rolled, and drilled with 
5 cwt. of Proctor & Rylands' Mangold Manure. The seed is 
drilled on the flat 20 inches wide, at the rate of 14 lbs. to the 
acre, and the mangolds are thinned out till the plants are 17 
inches apart, which gives something like 18,000 plants to the 
acre. Tv\o acres intended to compete for the prize oSered by 
Messrs. Proctor & Rylands got nothing but 10 cwt. of their 
special manure. 
Mr. Wadsley was awarded in the competition of 1888 the 
third prize with a weight of 41 tons IG cwt. There were then 
310 tons on the 7 acres. Two years previously the same field 
is said to have produced the enormous weight of 52 tons 10 cwt. 
of mangold per acre. 
Ten acres of Webb's Imperial Swedes, drilled on the flat, 
20 inches apart, showed a very good plant. The soil was 
prepared with 23 loads of farmyard manure applied during 
winter, together with 4 cwt. of Proctor & Rylands' Swede 
manure drilled with the seed. 
A field of 18 acres had been prepared for coleseed, which 
was to be drilled about July 10. This field, which was very 
heavy land, had been four times ploughed 7 inches deep during 
winter, and then cultivated. To each acre 15 loads of farm- 
yard manure had been applied. 
There were 9 acres of beans, after wheat, drilled on Feb- 
ruary 13, at the rate of 9 pecks to the acre. The plant was 
regular all over the field, but was rather short in the straw. 
Fourteen acres of grass had been laid down five years pre- 
viously, with Sharpe's permanent grass mixture, at a cost of 
286\ per acre, and 4 cwt. of dissolved bones had beea sown on it 
