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similarly treated, looked fairly well iu May. la July a great 
part of it had been cut and stacked in good order. Among the 
chief grasses observed were ryegrass, cocksfoot, sweet vernal, 
and crested dogstail. 
Fourteen acres of grass, pastured in May with 16 cows, and 
regularly watered with liquid manure, looked splendid, and at 
the time of our final visit was still pastured with 16 cows, besides 
horses. Mr. Shelton always arranges so that one of his grass-fields 
on which cows are kept may be thus treated, and the result is a 
great flush of grass. There was no difficulty in observing where 
his liquid manure had been distributed, and only by virtue of 
some such treatment could so many cattle be maintained on a 
comparatively small field. All the manure dropped by the cows 
during the season is regularly and carefully picked off or 
knocked over the field — a process which prevents the growth of 
grass in coarse tufts such as cattle refuse to eat. 
Green crops receive special attention from Mr. Shelton, who 
is wonderfully successful in the cultivation of mangold, for which 
and for swedes he has taken, at different times, 31 prizes at the 
Shows of the Ruddington Agricultural Society. In April 1 888 
nearly 11 acres of Webb's Champion Yellow Globe mangold 
were drilled on the flat 23 inches apart. It was just coming up 
at the time of the writer's visit in May. In July it looked an 
absolutely perfect ci'op, the best that the Judges had seen any- 
where during their inspection. Mr. Shelton's ordinary method 
of mangold cultivation is somewhat as follows : As soon as 
convenient after the previous year's gi'ain crop has been harvested 
the stubbles are carefully inspected, and all beds of couch-grass 
dug out with a fork. The land is then broken up, being twice 
woi'ked lengthways and across with a Coleman four-horse cul- 
tivator with the grubber tines. This autumnal cultivation is 
very important, particularly on land that is never treated as 
dead fallow. In this rough, open condition it is left to the 
various atmospheric influences for some weeks, after which it 
is covered with good farmyard manure at the rate of 26 to 34 
loads, according to circumstances. This is well spread over the 
land, which is afterwards winter-ploughed, a process which is 
generally completed by the middle of December. About the last 
week of March, if the weather be favourable, the land is worked 
twice over with a Howard four-horse drag ; and in the end of the 
first week of April, or during the second week, it is harrowed 
more lightly, and rolled sufficientlj' to bring it to a fine and 
somewhat firm tilth. About 3^ to 4 cwt. per acre of Webb's 
mangold manure is sown broadcast just before the later harrow- 
ings, Seven pounds of Webb's Champiqn Yellow Globe naangold 
