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^ire mixed with chaff from a chaff-room below. Threshing, as- 
well as some of these processes, has hitherto been ])erformed by 
hired steam-power ; but the new water-wheel (18 feet in dia- 
meter) in course of erection will in future do everything but 
the threshing of the grain. Adjoining this building is an exceed- 
ingly substantial barn, some 80 feet long and proportionately 
high, abutting upon the stack-yard. This is usually filled at 
harvest with the corn for first threshing, after which it is 
utilised as a straw bay. There are several sheltered yards, and 
stalls or boxes for, in all, about 70 head of cattle, as will be 
,seen by the accompanying plan (see Fig. G, p. 552). The stables 
and cider-room are nearer the house, and not visible on the 
plan. 
Grass Land. — The grass-land, consisting of 215 acres, is 
principally in the park of Mr. Vaughan Lee, M.P. The park 
portion proper is divided into large sections by neat, but some- 
what light, iron fences ; and the fields, in a northerly direction 
below the drive to the mansion, vary in size from 13 to 20 acres, 
iind are divided by rather rough hedges and ditches. There 
is a good deal of ornamental timber upon this grass land, as may 
be supposed from its position. 
The pasture lies north and west of the homestead, and is 
'ill together ; one tillage field alone being intersected by it 
from the rest of the arable land, which is also otherwise con- 
:iguous, and is situated on the west and south of the premises. 
The bulk of the pasture is good grazing land. None of the 
{)ark portion is kept for hay, and the practice adopted is to mow 
md graze the other parts alternately, or as they may be required. 
A.bout 25 acres of the pasture is dressed every winter, at the rate 
)f 10 loads per acre, with a compost consisting chiefly of road- 
jicrapings and other accumulations, mixed with some lime, and 
occasionally salt, which is found to act very beneficially. Na 
•)ther manure, with the exception of the little farmyard-manure 
,:hat may be in the compost-heap, has been used during the 
Ipresent tenancy upon the grass land. The quantity mown is 
Usually about 50 acres, so that the fields from which hay is 
p:aken get manured every other year. The other pastures derive 
benefit at the expense of the tillage, by the reduction of man- 
fjolds and swedes upon them in the winter months by the stock* 
!2wes and lambs, and also by the consumption of linseed- and 
t;otton-cakes by the feeding-oxen in the summer. 
' The annexed map of the farm (Fig. 7, p. 553) will best illus- 
rate its position with regard to the house and buildings, its 
,^(ncral outline,and the comparative size and form of its enclosures. 
Arable Land. — The land under tillag-e amounts altogfether to 
L42 acres. The rotation of cropping adopted is — Wheat, swedes. 
