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as easily cleaned, and more prolific, than those grown in 1874 
on the plan of two rows 8 inches apart, and on eacli side a 
fallow strip of 26 inches. But even with these wide spaces, 
the 18 acres of 1874 averaged 9Z. \Qs. Twenty acres of this 
150-acre inclosure steam-ploughed, dragged, and dunged on 
the surface, now lie ready for mangolds or potatoes, for which 
Mr. Middleditch expects to obtain as ready and remunerative a 
sale as lor his corn-crops. 
The North-field, a farm in itself,- comprises 240 acres. Over 
220 acres of this broad level expanse, unmarked by lands or 
ridges, with only a few furrows cleared out in some of the old 
boggy places, waved in July, 1874, a splendid regular crop of 
Biddell's Imperial wheat. Cereals have been grown in various 
portions for four or five years without intermission, the latter 
crops proving quite as good as the first. After steam- ploughing 
and dragging, G pecks of seed were put in, during the first 
week in October, partly by horses and partly by steam-drill. 
The steam-drilled land was hand-hoed, as the seed was not suffi- 
ciently regularly deposited to permit the use of the horse-hoes, 
which went twice through most of the horse-drilled wheat. 
On all, except the newly broken-up land, 3 cwt. of dissolved 
bones were applied at seed time ; 1^ cwt. nitrate of soda, 
as a top-dressing, in spring. For this fine field the average 
acreable price obtained, in July, 1874, was 11/. Twenty acres 
on the upper side of this large enclosure were, during 1874, 
thoroughly summer-fallowed. One of the last remaining of the 
superfluous hedgerows, with many tons of tree-roots, has been 
efiectually torn out, and the ground levelled and made ready lor 
profitable occupation. As soon as the crop of 1874 was cleared 
off, the steam-plough was at work ; about 40 acres were scarified, 
but this leaves too much stubble and rubbish on the surface, and 
in the succeeding summer is more apt to be overrun with weeds. 
Rivett and blue-cone wheat, to the extent of 6 pecks per acre, were 
drilled ; the work being finished early in October. One portion 
of the field harrowed about a week after drilling has been left 
rather thin, but the whole of the wheat is most promising. On 
20 acres of the heaviest portion of this field, never yet subjected 
to thorough cleaning, vetches are drilled, presenting a thick good 
crop, intended for sale, most probably to be penned off in May 
with sheep; for, partial as Mr. Middleditch is to portable fertil- 
isers, he knows lull well how much condition heavy land receives 
Irom liberally-fed sheep, penned on it during dry weather. 
The three meads, comprising 33 acres, presented, in July, 
1874, a good crop of Rivett wheat. Although the fourth coru- 
crop in direct succession, the thorough autumn culture, horse 
and hand-hoeing, and uniform regular crops, prevent the growth 
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