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superphospliate (mixed with ashes and drilled with the seed), 
tog^ether with 2 cwt. of guano and 4 cwt. of salt, broadcasted 
and dressed in at the same time. The whole of the turnips and 
swedes and one-half of the mangold are consumed on the ground 
by the sheep ; the remaining half of the mangold is drawn home 
lor the cattle. The green crops are also folded off. The clover 
is first cut, and then fed, if Avanted ; if not, it is cut twice. This 
is a very liberal system. It may, perhaps, be said that if the 
whole of the wheat-stubbles were put to an early green crop, 
such as rye, and fed off with sheep, something might be saved 
in artificials to the mangold-crop ; and there would still be time 
i'or the fold on the rye, for mangolds here are not put in till at 
least the middle of May, or they ran to seed. But would there 
be time to clean the land, and would the work be evenly dis- 
tributed ? 
The average produce of the district is, wheat 32 bushels ; 
barley 40 ; beans and peas 32 ; swedes 18 tons ; mangold 30 ; 
clover-hay 1^. Mr. Bone exceeds, and deserves to exceed, these 
(quantities ; for instance, his mangold has reached 45 tons. The 
live-stock of the neighbourhood receives but little attention as 
to its breed. The farmers have rights in the Forest, and turn 
in their heifers there ; it has already been seen with what results. 
The best farmers, therefore, as Mr. Bone, never turn out. 
They consider that the advantage of scanty keep on a common 
for a certain time, is more than neutralized by the inferiority of 
breed thereby necessarily induced. Mr. Bone has all Devons, 
both for milking and grazing, and breeds his own stock. The 
same remarks apply to horses, both as to their general in- 
feriority, and to Mr. Bone's superior judgment. He has a 
handsome cart-stallion, Avhich was second in his class at the 
Bath and West of England Show at Dorchester ; and for his nag 
mares he has an Arab, purchased of Mr. Alexander Elphinstone, 
of Chuten Glen, and imported by him. He is now an old horse, 
and rather long in the leg, as we should think ; but his form, 
his head, his muzzle, the cleanness of his legs, and the docility 
of his temper, are beautiful. Mr. Bone has some young stock 
from him, and, if this cross be persevered in, a very superior 
class of riding-horses will be the result. The sheep are Hamp- 
shire and Southdowns, chiefly the former. A few Dorset ewes 
are kept for early lambs. With a few exceptions, such as Lord 
Normanton's and Mr. Mills's, there are no breeding and stock 
flocks, but all is shifting. Ewes are bought in at the fall, 
lambed down ; the lambs fatted off about Easter, the mothers as 
soon after as possible. I saw on Mr. Bone's farm some fat tegs, 
28 lbs. a quarter at 14 months old ; and 45 lbs. a quarter at 21 
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