Somersetshire Farm-Prize Competition, 1875. 537 
Acreage under Respective Crops. 
Niimbors 
of Fields 
on iVlap. 
Acreage, j 
First Inspection, Nov. 2, 1874. 
Second Inspection, July ISib, 
or to follow. 
4&5 
10 
Mustard, early turnips, and rape 
after trefoil and Italian rye- j 
Barley seeded with 
mixed seeds. 
grass, mown and grazed. 
Eape and mustard after barley, 
where seeds had failed. | 
6&S 
14 
Rape and turnips after 
mustard; swedes after 
rape. 
11 
Rape fed after winter vetches, 
fed also. 
Oats seeded. 
Barley. 
swedes. 
\2J turnips. 
22 
1' 
; AVinter vetches after wheat 
Totals. 
Barley 17 acres. 
Oats 3J „ 
Rape and turnips .. .. 9 J „ 
Swedes ll| ,, 
Showing in cereal crops 20J acres. 
Ditto green crops 21 ,, 
whicli would probably have been broken up for common turnips ; 
and 7 acres of field 22 should have been seeded down with the 
barley. The result would have been : — 
Wheat, 10 acres. 
Barley and Oats, 10^ 
Clover, 10 „ 
Roots, 11 „ 
The divergence has arisen as follows: — 
The 14 acres of seeds failed last summer in field 6 and 8. 
It had therefore to go into green crops and roots. 
No. 4 and 5 was sown with barley and seeded in order 
that the 7 acres in No. 22 should not be laid down with clover, 
the object being that the whole of that field shall come under 
one crop next year to suit the new holding. 
First Inspection. ~SV\ien the Judges were at Tunley in No- 
vember, they found that the dry summer had considerably affected 
the arable culture, as has been explained in referring to the 
crops on the ploughed land. The hay had proved a deficient 
crop, not amounting to much more than a third of the average, 
which would be about 95 tons. The land was clean and in 
course of cultivation for the ensuing crops. Most of the sheep 
and lambs had been sold off fat. The dairy cows and young 
stock were looking well. 
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