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Farming of Hampshire. 
are allowing their tenants to sell liaj, on condition of bringing 
back the value in artificial manures. The produce is increased 
to 32 bushels of wheat and 35 of beans, or 25 per cent. The 
Duke's cattle, on his home-farm, are of Stratton's blood. There 
are three flocks : one of Hampshire downs ; another of a breed 
from the Forest of Ardennes, small and active ; a third of Ex- 
moor sheep, which rough it here as on their native hills, and do 
well. But this is not a sheep country, and these flocks could 
not be kept without the help of the park. About 25 head of 
cattle are reared yearly, and other beasts purchased in the spring 
to turn out in the park. About twenty of the oxen bred on 
the farm are grazed, and sold in February yearly at three years 
old. The roots are pulped, mixed with chaff, cake, and meal. 
The store cattle are kept in the park in the summer, and in yards 
during winter. 
The home-farm buildings, erected some years since, are suffici- 
ently commodious, and, like everything else here, practical rather 
than experimental. There are three yards for stock of different 
ages, and stalls for tying up grazing-beasts and dairy-cows, 
with a feeding-passage at their heads. There is not a useless 
article or animal on the premises. But the most noticeable 
feature is the artesian well, the formation of which revealed some 
geological secrets. For the first 100 feet no water was found ; 
then there was an oozing through a layer of sand, but this water 
was impregnated with magnesia. The sole other formation pene- 
trated was dark-coloured clay, till, at a depth of 320 feet, the 
chalk was reached, and the springs tapped, when the water at 
once rose to within 25 feet of the surlace. The supply never 
fails under whatever consumption, and, of course, it never freezes. 
On a frosty day it will feel, and will show itself to be, warm, 
throwing off steam on exposure. 
Among the Duke's many excellent tenants it will not be con- 
sidered invidious to select Mr. Boxall of Stratfieldsaye, as one 
of the most intelligent and improving. His occupation consists 
of 308 acres, of which 264 are arable, 37 pasture, 7 coppice, 
Mr. Boxall has attentively studied the subject of rotations most 
suitable to strong lands, and as the result of his reading, personal 
observations, and experience here and elsewhere, particularly in 
Sussex, he, on entering on his present farm seven years since, 
adopted an eight-years' course, as best calculated, in this soil and 
climate, to attain the great object of all rotations — permanent 
fertility, increase of the soil's produce and ability to carry stock, 
Mr. Boxall's course is : 1, (roots swedes, mangold, turnips, a 
few white carrots, and cabbages) ; 2, oats or barley ; 3, clover ; 
4, wheat ; 5, green crops (half tares, half trefoil and white 
clover, according to his wants) ; 6, wheat ; 7, beans : 8, wheat. 
