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the stock without stopping any other hands from the hay ; yet 
still it appeared to us that the heavy valuable crop then in 
hand would have justified more labour than we saw employed 
in securing it. 
The milk is all sold in Manchester, at 10^/. a gallon in winter, 
and at ^d. in summer, except Sunday's milk, which is made 
into butter and cheese. 
The farm generally is well cultivated, and in previous farm 
competitions Mr. Callwood has had a fair share ot success, con- 
sidering his short tenancy. He also won a local Farm Prize 
in 1883. 
The farm, though compact and in a ring fence, suffers in- 
convenience by severance, the London and North- Western 
Railway running right through the middle of it. Also some 
land on the west side lies awkwardly, and a long way from the 
homestead. 
The rotation of cropping usually followed is : — Seeds lay for 
one, two, or three years, according to the plant ; then fallow 
crops, chiefly potatoes ; after which oats or wheat, and the land 
is then sown down again. 
Cropping. — Oak Meadow, 4 a. For permanent pasture ; has 
been down four years, and looks excellent grass now. 
Brook Meadow, 4 a. Webb's Canadian oats, sown down 
with seeds, is a capital crop, and very clean. The side next 
the road used to be looked on by gipsies as their own, for 
camping purposes ; but, by a lot of heavy work, Mr. Callwood 
has levelled an old sandpit, and at the expense of about 30Z. 
has brought this portion into cultivation with the rest of the 
field. The oats are, even here, a good crop, and the field is 
now very well fenced from the road by the landlord with good 
young quicks and double rails. 
Sand Field, 20 a. Second year's lea. For grazing, this 
looked bad in April, a poor thin root ; and in July there was 
no improvement. This is a large area to be in so unprofitable 
a state, and is one of the principal blots on this farm at the 
present time. 
Barn Field, 17 a., joining the last, in permanent pasture, 
is a piece of well-grazed, sound, good turf, and seems to carry a 
large head of stock. 
Glebe Field, 8 a., joins the last ; it contains a splendid crop 
of swedes, the best we saw anywhere in our travels, nearly 
meeting in the drills, and growing fast, though the weather was 
very dry. There was a little twitch to be seen here, however. 
Three cwt. of mineral superphosphate and nitrate, in equal por- 
tions, had been sown with this crop. 
Clover Field, 30 a., all in potatoes, after 3 and 4 years' lea, 
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