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The  Yorkshire  Farm-Prize  Competition,  1883. 
standing,  and  is  occasionally  used  as  a horse-power  for  pulping 
or  chaff-cutting  when  steam  is  not  up.  An  eight-horse  portable 
engine  by  Marshall  now  drives  the  whole  of  the  machinery, 
which  consists  of  Hornsby’s  threshing-  and  dressing-machine, 
grinding-mill,  pulper,  chaff-cutters,  and  hoist, — the  whole  of 
which  are  conveniently  arranged.  The  horse-wheel  house  is 
lofted,  and  wil  1 hold  a few  loads  of  oats,  or  anything  that  has  to 
be  chopped.  Economy  in  the  use  of  straw  is  an  important  point 
where  such  a large  head  of  stock  is  kept.  The  covered  yards, 
together  with  chaff-cutting  and  pulping,  all  help  much  in  this 
direction,  and  are  all  highly  approved  of  by  Mr.  Hutchinson. 
Cropping. — No  definite  course  of  cropping  is  followed,  but 
the  usual  rotation  is  seeds,  oats,  wheat,  roots,  barley,  which  if 
not  sowrn  with  clover-seeds  is  again  followed  with  oats. 
The  arable  land  is  cropped  this  season  as  follows  : — 
Wheat,  11  acres 
Barley,  33  „ 
Oats,  43  „ 
Turnips,  29  „ 
Cabbage,  2 acres 
Potatoes,  ^ ,, 
Seeds,  1(5  ,, 
Mangold,  2 ,, 
Wheat. — Webb’s  Challenge,  grown  after  oats,  after  clover. 
It  had  been  manured  with  14  loads  of  home-made  dung,  and 
3 cwt.  of  wheat-manure  per  acre  ; was  fully  shot  out  on  our  July 
inspection,  and  though  not  a thick  crop,  was  well  headed,  and 
looked  like  yielding  well. 
Barley. — This  was  every  bit  of  it  a grand  crop.  “ Kinver 
Hill”  barley,  got  direct  from  Messrs.  Webb  and  Son,  appeared 
especially  promising,  and  if  well  secured  will  no  doubt  furnish 
seed  for  many  Yorkshire  farmers.  Hallett’s  was  almost  too 
heavy  to  stand,  and  looked  very  prolific. 
Oats. — Last  year’s  clover-lea  was  limed  at  the  rate  of  5 tons 
per  acre.  It  was  then  ploughed  and  pressed,  and  hand-sown  in 
February.  The  oats  were  well  up  at  our  April  visit ; in  July 
they  proved  really  a splendid  crop,  only  too  heavy  for  standing. 
An  old  fence  had  been  taken  out,  and  two  acres  of  tough  old 
grass  were  thus  laid  to  a tillage-field  which  was  ploughed  out 
in  early  winter,  and  in  July  was  carrying  a gross  though 
wonderfully  level  crop.  Seven  acres  of  black  Tartarian  oats, 
after  barley-stubble,  dressed  with  3 cwt.  of  Peruvian  guano, 
were  not  healthy  ; a portion  of  them  had  lost  plant,  though  the 
greater  part  of  the  break  would  yield  a fair  crop. 
Seven  acres  of  Longfellow’s  on  the  same  rotation,  with  similar 
treatment,  were  vastly  superior.  Another  break  of  barley- 
stubble  that  had  been  originally  intended  for  roots,  and  there- 
fore very  deeply  ploughed,  was  carrying  a fine  crop  of  Webb's 
white  Tartarian  oats. 
