The Root Crops of 1860. 
553 
1 March, 18G0. lbs. 
Half-bred Leicester ,.148 
Down 140 
12 April, 1860. 
Half-bred Leicester weiglicd .. .. 158 
Down 150 
5, May, 1800, after slioaring. 
Half-bred Leicester .. .. .. 152 
Wool 8J 
100 
Down .. .. .. .. 145 
Wool 7 
so tlint I had for the half-hreds — 
s. d. 
For the carcass an excess of . . ..50 
For l^lb. of wool sold at Is. 10./. of ..2 0 
Or a total profit above the Domis of . . 7 9 
1 may add, that before going on to turnips, the whole 200 fed 
together in the park. I do not reckon for the future on grazing 
many jiure Downs, and shall breed half-Leicesters from all my 
inferior ewes. This last season I crossed part of the draught ewes 
with a Cotswold ram, and am now grazing 75 half-Loicesters, 75 
half-Cotswold, and 75 Down, three-fourths of the latter to come into 
the tlock. I sold 100 of the worst lambs, consisting of about equal 
proportions of each variety, in August last at 2Gs., and was then offered 
30s. a-hcad for the half-breds that I reserved. You will perhaps be 
surprised at the small quantity of corn I give my sheep ; the fact 
is, my farm has been overdone Avith sheep, and the corn almost 
invariably is lodged ; hence I am growing fewer swedes and more 
mangold, and give the latter on the grass-land to the sheep." 
Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Dec. 1800. 
5.— The R-oot-Crops 0/I86O. By P. H. Frere. 
A SEASON like that of 1860 gives unusual interest to any details of 
management connected with the root-ci'op. According to my 
experience, the kohl-rabi has best withstood both wet and frost, 
whether I look to an early sown piece, Avhich has bulbs of between 
four and five pounds, with but little leaf, or to some strips sown in 
the middle of June, in alternation with white turnips for ewes and 
lambs, which present a mass of fresh green foliage with but little 
bulb. 
The early crop was sowtl on the 7tli of May with 8 tons of farni- 
yard manure, 2\ cwt. of superphosphate, and 20 bushels of ashes, 
on rather a sandy loam worth 25s. per acre. The seed (Sutton's 
Green Variety) was drilled at the rate of not more than I-| lbs. per 
acre. The plant was very good and the crop regular, except where 
