Somersetshire Farm-Prize Competition, 1875. 557 
sheep were in healthy condition. The cattle were all in the 
yards and buildings. The feeding-bullocks (20 or 30, fewer 
in number than are usually fattened) were a good lot, and 
the young stock were all in an improving state. 
Acreage of Arable Land under respective Crops. 
Number of 
Field on 
Map. 
Acreage. 
9 
5 
8 
H 
7 
6 
18 
16 
7 
10 
5 
4 
7 
8 
10 
11 
142 
May 20th, 1875. 
Mangolds after rye 
Trifolium incarnatum cut 
Clover 
Wheat 
Oats . . 
Wheat 
Clover 
Cabbage 
Potatoes 
Rape 
Mangolds 
Ploughed after winter vetches 
Spring vetches 
July 9th, 1875, or to succeed this 
Season. 
Mangolds, 
Green Ring turnips. 
Green Ring turnips. 
For turnips not yet ploughed. 
Wheat. 
Oats. 
Wheat. 
Clover. 
Not yet fed. 
Potatoes. 
Not yet fed. 
Mangolds. 
Swedes. 
(Half swedes sown. 
\Half for Green Ring turnips. 
Total of Wheat 
„ Oats 
„ Clover 
„ Green crops and roots 
48 acres. 
6 
21 
67 „ 
At their second visit on the 20th May the Judges found the 
wheat all looking forward, with sufficiency of plant. That after 
mangolds was, however, somewhat deficient in colour. Some 
portions had been top-dressed with nitrate of soda, and these 
could readily be detected by the eye. The oats were good. 
The mangolds were clean and regular, but had been much 
checked by the fly and grub, aided, doubtless, by the inclemency 
pf the spring. The trifolium incarnatum was partly cut, and 
turned out a heavy swathe ; the other portion was good, and quite 
ready for feeding. The winter vetches had to a great extent 
jbeen fed off, and in one instance a second growth was going 
through the same process again. The spring vetches were very 
beavy, and nearly ready for use ; they were grown after mustard 
ivhich had been previously fed. The cabbages, rape, and 
jaotatoes had made a fair start. One piece of clover was mown. 
The other field of 10 acres was most luxuriant, and Avas ap- 
parently overgrowing the flock of lambs that were grazing it. 
