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which  will  now  require  to  be  covered  in,  as  this  place  must  for 
the  future  take  rank  as  a model  farm. 
Mr.  Beevers  has  great  faith  in  potatoes  ; last  year  he  grew 
Magnum  Bonums  and  Champions,  which  proved  very  remune- 
rative. Regents  had  been  chiefly  grown  previously,  but  they 
were  not  so  productive  and  had  more  disease.  Magnums  and 
Champions  are  again  planted  on  a 4-acre  field,  which  the 
tenant  has  drained.  The  manure  applied  was  18  cartloads  of 
foldyard  and  4 cwt.  of  artificial  manure  to  the  acre.  This  field 
was  neatly  finished  in  July  ; well  set  up  with  the  plough,  clean, 
and  the  plants  were  growing  vigorously,  though  a very  few 
drills  in  the  middle  of  the  field,  owing  to  some  unexplained 
causes,  were  patchy. 
Fallow  wheat,  of  which  there  were  3 acres,  was  a really  splendid 
crop ; the  best  we  saw  out  of  Holderness.  Four  acres  after 
potatoes  in  the  same  field  was  little,  if  any,  behind  ; the  whole 
had  been  dressed  in  spring  with  ^ ton  of  soot  and  11  cwt. 
of  salt  to  the  acre  ; this  had  evidently  had  good  results.  The 
variety  is  “ Scholey’s  Square  Head,"’  and  is  sure  to  yield  well. 
A formerly  unproductive  corner  of  this  field  at  the  entrance 
from  the  road,  where  a straggling  old  fence  had  been  grubbed, 
is  now  doing  duty  as  a productive  vegetable  garden. 
Barley,  after  turnips — 13|  acres — dressed  with  21  cwt.  of 
Peruvian  guano  per  acre,  was  very  forward  in  April  ; and  was 
very  clean  and  equally  promising  in  July.  The  seed  was  the 
famous  “ Kinver  Hill”  variety,  direct  from  Webb  and  Sons. 
Seven  acres  of  black  oats,  grown  after  barley,  were  equally  pro- 
mising. The  stubble  had  been  cleaned  and  worked  last  autumn, 
and  the  crop  had  been  dressed  in  spring  with  1 ton  of  soot  per 
acre. 
The  crop  from  6 acres  of  seeds  was  safe  in  the  hay-shed  at  our 
July  inspection  ; the  hay  was  a little  weathered,  but  strong  in 
the  bone.  A mixture  of  nitrate  of  soda  and  superphosphate  was 
standing  in  the  field,  ready  for  application,  to  give  the  fogg  a 
lift  for  a second  crop  : three  acres  at  the  foot  of  this  field,  which 
had  been  too  foul  to  sow  with  seeds,  was  being  ploughed  for  the 
sixth  time. 
Another  fallow  field  of  15  acres,  after  oats,  was  not  a good 
subject.  Nine  acres  had  been  intended  for  roots,  which  were 
all  sown  excepting  an  acre  that  was  lying  ridged  with  the  tillage 
sown  on  it  : a heavy  thunderstorm  had  stopped  the  proceedings 
and  spoiled  the  piece  for  roots  for  this  season.  Two  acres  of 
mangolds  had  suffered  from  the  drought,  and  were  poor  and 
patchy  ; while  4 acres  of  swedes  had  been  resown  with  white 
turnips,  and  might  still  have  made  a crop,  if  the  season  had  not 
been  most  unfavourable  for  root  growing,  especially  on  soils  of 
