Mr. Younys Farm. 
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tinguisliing crops, on 1st July, 1860, and the quantities produced 
(which are extraordinary for last season) as ascertained after- 
wards : 
Barley 
Oats 
Beans and peas .. 
Vetches 
Turnijis 
Mangold 
Clover and trifolium 
I'otatoes and carrots 
A. 
K. 
I'. 
'J5 
0 
0 
48 
0 
0 
48 
o 
0 
.. '10 
2 
0 
18 
0 
0 
2 
0 
'-"2 
0 
0 
Gl 
0 
0 
5 
0 
0 
, 412 
0 
0 
13 
0 
0 
Produce per Acre. 
30 bushels. 
44 „ 
48 „ 
28 „ 
820 2 0 
It only remains to add that these farming operations are meant to 
pay, and do pay. Weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly accounts 
are kept in the most business like manner, and regularly for- 
warded for His Royal Highness's inspection. There is an inde- 
pendent audit ; and, if there be any reliance on figures, both ends 
are made to meet, and more than meet. 
There is another and a more recent agricultural improver in 
this same north eastern division of the island, whose spirited 
efforts must not be passed over in silence. George Young, Esq., 
purchased, four years since, 730 acres of land at Ashey, of which, 
in its present state, 500 are arable, 90 down, 30 coppice, 78 pas- 
ture, and 32 recently reclaimed. It was, at the time of the 
purchase, a wilderness of trees, bushes, and crooked fences, under 
Avater, and without roads, almost in a state of nature. All but 
the coppice is drained, under the superintendence of Mr. Parkes, 
4 leet deep, 30 and 27 feet apart, or closer where the clay was 
particularly retentive. Mr. Young has grubbed 150 acres of 
oak coppice, and has put, or is putting, it under cultivation. 
He has made roads, straightened the fences, and thrown his fields 
together for the steam-plough, having had Smith's at work for 
nearly the last two years when the state of the land permitted. He 
has chalked and limed some portion with 40 tons of chalk per 
acre and 2h of lime. When the heavy work of his other im- 
provements is over, he will go on with this, having chalk, and 
lime kilns on the farm. He made his own bricks and pipes of 
the clay on the property, erected sawing machinery, and himself 
superintended the erection of the whole. The homestead is well 
arranged to save labour. There are stalls and boxes for eighty 
cattle, a shed 84 feet long and 14 wide for feeding sheep on 
boards, besides every other possible accommodation. The feed- 
ing troughs are of brick and cement, and w ater can be turned on 
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