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liom a supply on liiglier ground. There is a boiler for steaming 
food both for cattle and pigs, in which rapecake is boiled, and 
strewed over cut straw, hay, and roots. A peculiar kind of truck 
on three wheels is used, which, when filled with 12 bushels of 
cut turnips, a boy of twelve or fourteen can wheel with ease, 
turning the corners without difliculty. There is a 10-liorse 
portable engine by Clayton and Shuttleworth, who also put up 
the barn machinery. 
Besides this homestead, Mr. Young is erecting another on the 
same farm, but nearer Rydc, for a dairy of fifty-six cows, to be 
extended to ninety-two, if found to answer. Italian rye-grass 
will be grown, and watered with the liquid. There will be a 
fixed 4:-horse engine for cutting roots, churning, cScc., and the 
waste steam will be employed to cook the food. 
No regular system of cropping can be as yet adopted, but the 
four course is contemplated. A crop of oats is taken the first 
year after the land is reclaimed, then mangold or swedes, to be 
lollowed by wheat and clover. A portion, on being cleared, Avas 
pared and burnt, and swedes taken as a first crop, followed by 
oats. Liberal applications of farmyard and artificial manures 
are made. Last year 14 tons of guano, and 20 tons of Lawes's 
superphosphate, were used, besides all the dung made at home, 
and what the town of Ryde could supply. Within the last three 
years I'JOO tons of dung have been bought, in Ryde, and its 
neighbourhood. 
The sheep stock is about 700, 360 of which are breeding 
ewes, which Mr. Young hopes to increase next year to 500. 
They are Ham})shire downs. There are 25 slunthoru cows, 32 
grazinjT beasts (Devons and shorthorns), besides 4 store calves, 
and 8 working oxen, which are found very useful for rough, 
heavy work. Next year it is contemplated to grow 120 acres of 
roots, and to tie up 70 or 80 grazing beasts. Ten horses (Clydes- 
dale and Suffolk) are kept for farm purposes, besides 7 colts. 
Pigs (Berkshire and Sussex), 78. 
The following is the return of land under cultivation last year, 
together with the produce : — - 
.\cre8. Produce per Acre. 
Wheat HO from 16 to 32 bushels, 
I'arley ;!0 „ 34 „ 
Oats 95 „ 48 „ 
Beans 14 „ 24 „ 
Mil lipoid 45 „ 18 tons. 
Swedes aiul I iiniijjs 85 „ 10 „ 
Clover 75 „ IJ ,, 
This, be it remembered, is the j)roduce both of corn and roots in 
the last bad season, and greatly under that of the two previous 
yi;ars. The mangold were only half a crop. 
