556 Somersetshire Farm-Prize Competition, 1875. 
and are planted out at %d. for that number, in marked-out drills 
20 inches square. The " Early Enfield Market " is first com- 
menced with about Lady Day, and come in for feeding towards 
the beginning of July. Cattle cabbage planted the middle of 
April follow these in succession in the months of September 
and October. Forty bushels of soot per acre are applied when 
the cabbages are transplanted. 
Wheat. — The white thick-set Essex is the sort usually sown. 
Rivett's is put on land liable to lodge crops, either from its 
nature or from exceptional treatment. The leys are ploughed 
about 4 inches deep, well rolled down, dragged, and then left 
for a month before sowing, which commences about the middle 
of November. Seven to 8 pecks of seed are drilled per acre ; 
and afterwards, if the weather admits of it, sheep are constantly 
driven over the land to cause consolidation. Notwithstanding 
this, the ley wheat has a tendency to lose plant suddenly towards 
the end of January, and the practice then pursued is (weather 
permitting) to haul 3 cartloads of mangolds per diem upon the 
field, and place the couples there for a week, a mode of treat- 
ment that in every case is found to prove an effectual cure. 
The sheep are allowed to run over all the lighter wheat-fields 
in the spring, the impression being that this treatment renders 
the plant less liable to go down, and to knuckle or become root- 
fallen after the formation of the ear. Four or 5 pecks only of 
seed is sown after mangolds, and the crop is usually superior 
to that succeeding seeds. All the wheat is hand-hoed and top- 
dressed in the spring with 3 cwt. of salt and 20 bushels of lime 
per acre. Top-dressing with nitrate of soda is disapproved of 
as having a tendency to throw too much straw, and to render 
the plant liable to red-rust and mildew. 
Clovers are spring-sown in the cereals, the mixture con- 
sisting of, 
14 lbs. Red clover. 
4 lbs. Trefoil. 
3 lbs. Alsike. 
1 peck Devonshire rye-grass. ' 
First Inspection, November 1874. — At their autumn inspec- 
tion the Judges found a portion of the wheat sown, and well 
up. The swedes were being fed off by the sheep ; for the 
season they were a very good crop, although they showed a 
disposition to be necky. The common turnips were looking 
remarkably well. 
The stock also seemed to be thriving. The flock of ewes on 
the grass land were becoming heavy with lamb. The wether 
hoggs on the roots were very forward ; while the rest of the young 
