Mr. DicMnsmis Farm. 
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Farming proper on the Croiim lands of tlie New Forest is 
confined to those held by Wm. Dickinson, Esq., at New Park 
and Barley Rails. The former consists of 270 acres (150 arabh? 
and 120 pasture) ; the latter of IGO acres. The following observa- 
tions will refer exclusively to the former, for it is there that Mr. 
Dickinson resides and directs operations which have attracted, 
and deserve attention. The surl'ace-soil in the northern part 
of his land rests on a mixture of gravel and clay ; that in the 
southern on gravel, with a substratum of close sand : altogether 
it is the best land in the Forest. His rotation is the four-course, 
as closely as it can be followed. 
The cattle are principally Scotch bullocks (which are well 
adapted to the Forest keep), occasionally some Devons and 
Short-horns, all bought in young, turned out in the Forest 
during summer, fed in yards during winter till old enough to be 
grazed, when they are tied up, and sold on the premises by 
auction. Channel Islands cows are kept for the use of the 
house : 100 ewes, partly Hampshire and partly Southdowns, are 
bought in annually, lambed down, and ewes and lambs fatted 
off. The pigs are of the Yorkshire kind, bought originally of 
Dr. Hobson, of Leeds. The cart-horses are bred on the farm 
from mares (a cross between Clydesdale and Yorkshire), by 
a Normandy horse. The fillies are r?tained, the horse colts 
sold. 
Mr. Dickinson is rich in implements. Tuxford's 8-horse port- 
able steam-engine pumps water from the Forest into the reservoir, 
where the water is mixed with urine of the live stock, pumps 
the liquid manure out of the reservoir over 45 acres, laid down 
with iron pipes, and usually cropped with Italian rye-grass (on 
the cultivation of which Mr. Dickinson has published a valuable 
pamphlet), and roots. For the former his proportion of water to 
mine is two to one, for common grasses four to one, for clover 
six to one. Mr. Dickinson's experience is in favour of liquid 
manure for present results, solid for future. He would no more 
huddle up the two together than mix sovereigns and shillings in 
a purse. The engine does the other usual work, pumps water to 
a reservoir for the supply of the yards and sheds, cuts chaff, 
grinds, threshes, &c. Clayton's combined mower and reaper, 
Ashby's horse-rakes, Hornsby's corn-drills, Howard's ploughs, 
Garrett's horse-hoe, Chambers' manure-distributor, and every 
other scientific implement that can be desired, may be seen on 
the premises. The store-cattle shed is divided into three com- 
partments, as is also the fatting-cattle shed. Each animal is fed 
separately through sliding doors from the covered way, which 
connects the two sheds, and is found extremely useful. One 
hundred and sixty sheep are fatted on boarded grating. A tram- 
