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availing itself of any amount of manure, whilst the land re- 
quires more since the crop is all drawn off. Guano is applied 
as a top dressing, if the wheat or the oats want it in spots, 
or when wheat follows beans. Chalking is in favour, 30 tons 
per acre. The chalk is procured from Portsdown Hill, delivered 
at Barton Hard, close by, for 2s. 9c?. per ton. Tliis chalk is con- 
sidered (juite equal to that of Arreton, and one-third cheaper. 
Much stable and other dung, at 6s. 6rf. per 1^ tons, comes across 
the water, and is considered the cheapest manure procurable. 
The return of live stock 1st July, 1860, is as follows : — 
Horses 20 
Colts and foals 11 
Cows in milk 10 
Other cattle ,54 
Rams 4 
Ewes 422 
Lambs 246 
Other sheep* Ill 
Swine 51 
929 
The horses are chiefly Clydesdales. For mere cultivation ten 
only would be sufficient, now that there is a steam-cultivator 
(Smith's). The rest of the horses are used for other than farm 
purposes on the estate. The milking cows are Alderneys ; the 
grazing beasts are polled Galloways. The cow calves are kept 
for stock ; the bull calves got rid of immediately. The sheep 
are chiefly South Downs, with a few Dorset ewes for early lambs. 
The Down lambs are kept for stock, or fatted off as tegs. 
The horned lambs are fatted off at once Avith cake. The pigs, 
of the Sussex breed, improved by Fisher Hobbs' boar, are 
killed as porkers. No food is cooked for them, nor for anything 
else. As to implements, there are some of all sorts. His Royal 
Highness thinking most things worth a trial. On one point he 
has come to a very decided opinion. There is not a waggon on 
the premises, but a double set of cart beds, harvest beds and 
dung beds, which are placed, as occasion demands, on the same 
axles and wheels. When not in use, the harvest-beds are stowed 
away like plates in a plate-rack. 
The following table will give the land under cultivation, dis- 
* Among these are no longer to be reckoned the Puriah sheep of Thibet. These 
^vere first described by the UUe Mr. Moorcroft. One ram and three ewes arrived 
at Osborne, March, 1849. They increased in a year and two mouths to IS, the 
ewes lambing twice in the year, but out of 11 lambs there was not one male. On 
inquiring for them, I learnt that, after a time, the climate had disagreed with 
them, that none now survived, and that the last were sent to the Zoological 
Gardens. 
