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On the Growth of Manr/okh, Cahhages, c£c. 
consisting of mangolds, cabbages, and Thousand-headed kale, 
besides trifolium and ryegrass raised as silage crops. In addi- 
tion to this, large quantities of silage are made from the meadows 
and rotation grasses. Silage to the amount of 550 tons was 
made altogether last year in four large stacks, the proportion to 
trifolium amounting to 200 tons. 
Now this is of course a farm in another part of the kingdom 
to Norfolk, and one where dairy cows are chiefly kept, and very 
few sheep, comparatively speaking, exist. But, apart from 
being an exemplification of arable dairying, there are some 
interesting and instructive features, which might no doubt be 
studied to advantage by a very large number of farmers ir- 
respective of geographic situation. Thus, as to keeping the 
land cropped, and making one thing follow on the heels of 
another rapidly, nursery beds of young cabbages are provided, so 
that, to quote Mr. Allender, " cabbages are always going." As 
fast as a green crop is taken oif the larnd it is ploughed, and 
plants set in, because cabbages come always useful. 
Probably no Norfolk farmer has in recent years made a greater 
departure from Norfolk ways and customs than Mr. R. Hunter 
Pringle, who occupies 585 acres of arable land at East Mean, 
Watton, his farm bordering on the " blowing sands " district 
which has such an ill reputation for having ruined many farmers. 
He entered thereon five years since, and after finding corn- 
growing a certain and heavy loss, he determined to abandon it 
as much as possible, and proceeded subsequently to shorten very 
much his breadths of turnips and swedes likewise. Finding that 
to grow common turnips fit to stand the winter well, and to be 
fed off on the land, small roots only could be raised such as would 
be considered only half ci'ops in a Scotchman's eye, he discarded 
them, being convinced that direct profit from swedes was highly 
improbable, but that mangold wurzel crops were worthy of more 
attention than they generally received. 
Mr. Pringle soon settled down into a system of lengthening 
out the grass rotation, notwithstanding that everybody h© 
happened to meet told him the same story, that land must not 
remain in rotation grass more than a year in Norfolk. In 
1885 he seeded down 70 acres, of which 30 belonged to the 
blowing sand district. He intended to plough the whole of 
it up after the second year, but by good management it has 
been too valuable ever since to be parted with as alternate 
pasture. 
Altogether Mr. Pringle has reduced his tillage to 100 acres 
for corn, and 50 acres for roots and green crops annually, and is 
of opinion the farm should not be ploughed mpre than this, the 
