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The pigs are — 
4 Fat. 
1 Brood sow, with litter of 10. 
No sheep. 
The land lies 4^ miles N.VV. of St, Helen's, and about 
12 or 14 miles N.E. of Liverpool. 
The buildings are indifferent, but orderly and clean. There 
is a very good Dutch barn built by the tenant, 13 yards long by 
10 yards wide ; it cost 45Z. 
Implements. — Small steam-engine for pulping, churning, and 
steaming, and a fair assortment of those field implements 
required on a farm of this size; the carts were in good order. 
System of cropping : — 
1. Potatoes. 
2. VV heat, oats, or barley. 
3. Potatoes. 
4. Corn crop sown down for two years. 
Horse-manure and cow-manure are brought from Liverpool, 
about 300 tons annually ; each costs 65. by road, 8a-. by rail. 
Nitrate of soda and bone-meal are used for top dressing. 
The land is very clean and well cultivated. 
Fences are good ; the stackyard in November was well filled 
and tidy. 
Hay and straw are sold at St. Helen's and in Liverpool. 
There is a large head of game on this farm. 
Crops. — 12 acres potatoes, and 1^ acres of mangolds and 
swedes ; a good crop, clean and well cultivated. We saw 
nothing much better. Mangolds pretty good, swedes good. 
Ten acres of second-year seeds, top-dressed, after barley ; 
may cut a light crop of hay of fair quality, not over 25 cwt. 
an acre. 
An admirable fence divided this field from the next; all the 
fences were planted by the tenant's father. 
Ten acres of Chevalier barley after potatoes, sown with seeds ; 
the greater part of this field next the road was the best crop 
of barley that we came across ; the top end was lighter, but 
good on an average. 
Twelve acres of potato oats, after two years' seeds ; mowed 
both years ; a very good crop. A large bed of coltsfoot is next 
the road. 
Twelve acres of wheat after potatoes ; a downright bad crop 
and poor land. 
Twelve acres of potatoes after oats. These had much im- 
proved in July, and were quite as good as could be expected ; 
