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quired for home consumption. Details respecting the manufac- 
ture and preservation of cider, by Mr. Clement Cadle, will be 
found in this Journal, Vol. xxv., Part I., page 76. 
Book-keeping. — The accounts are clearly and accurately kept. 
A capital account shows the gross value of the live and dead 
stock year by year. A ledger, with divisional headings, allows 
the returns from each description of stock or produce to be 
ascertained, and a granary account enables the different sorts of 
stock to be debited with the respective quantities of corn or 
cake allowed them. A rough day-book is the foundation upon 
which the other books are based. 
The third Inspection took place on July 9th. All the wheat 
in fields No. 3, part of No. 4, and in Nos. 5 and 6 was regular, 
good in the head, and only slightly attacked by red-rust. The 
I crop had the appearance of being productive throughout. The 
^portion top-dressed with nitrate of soda in the spring did not 
, appear to have derived any benefit from the application. The 
oats on part of field No. 4 were very long in the straw and luxu- 
riant. If not so heavy as to be badly laid in the recent storms 
they would produce a very profitable return. Field No. 2 was 
being prepared for common turnips, the trifolium incarnatum 
and clover having been mown and subsequently grazed. In 
field No. 10 the clover was still being grazed, and was a rich 
and abundant pasture. The 9 acres of mangolds in field 
No. 1 were very forward, regular, and clean, and there was every 
prospect of a very heavy crop. The other part of this field had, 
a day or two previously, been sown with Green Ring turnips after 
trifolium mown that had been made into hay. The fallow was 
clean and well cultivated, and a good tilth of soil secured for 
the seed. The mangolds in field No. 8 were not quite so regular 
as the last ; but were forward, and likely to produce a large crop. 
The remaining crops growing on field No. 8 were — 4 acres of 
potatoes, which appeared to be rather closely planted and super- 
abundant in the top ; 5 acres of cabbages, which were most 
creditable to any grower, being of the utmost regularity, all well 
developed, and the earlier sort ready for consumption ; and 7 
acres of magnificent rape. 
It was intended to bring the lambs to the rape and cabbages 
a few days after the inspection, on the completion of the spring 
\ yetches in field No. 9, which would then be sown with Green 
Ring turnips. The bulk of field No. 9 had already been sown with 
swedes, which were well up. The stock were doing well. Two 
or three of the Devon oxen fattening on the grass had been dis- 
posed of, and the rest were shortly to follow. The off-ewes had 
all been rutted, and the stock ewes were with the Dorset Horn 
