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Somersetshire Farm-Prize Competition, 1875. 
so narrow. Dutch hoeing between the rows, bunching, and 
singling, cost about %s. Gd. Common turnips follow vetches, 
and are sown from the beginning to the middle of July. The 
previous cultivation is similar to that for swedes, excepting that 
there is no farmyard-manure applied. This is compensated for 
by feeding the previously grown crop of vetches off by sheep 
with cake and corn. The Green Ring and ^Tankard varieties 
are the sorts selected for growth. About a twelfth of the roots 
(both swedes and common turnips) are removed to the build- 
ings in the winter, and the remainder consumed on the land by 
sheep. 
Barley follows roots. As the swedes and turnips are fed off 
in the winter, the land is closely cultivated up in order to pre- 
vent rain-washing, and is ploughed when sufficiently dry. It 
is either again cultivated or ploughed a second time, and the 
barley is commenced to be drilled about the middle of March, 
and finished towards the second week in April. Hallett's Pedi- 
gree has been sown the past two years at the rate of 2 bushels 
per acre. Top-dressing has this year been resorted to, f cwt. 
of nitrate of soda and 1^ cwt. of concentrated b(>ne and bone- 
superphosphate having been applied, at a cost of IZ. Is. per acre,, 
the second week in April. 
Clovers are sown with the barley or spring wheat. They take 
their place in the rotation every fourth year, and the mixtures 
are altered, so that the same varieties shall not recur more fre- 
quently than once in eight years at least, and generally not more 
frequently than once in twelve years. Thus this year the wheat 
is seeded with the following mixture : 
16 lbs. of broad clover, 
2 lbs. of white Dutch, 
1 bushel of Italian rye-grass per acre. 
In one piece of barley : 
10 lbs. of white Dutch, 
4 lbs. of trefoil, 
^ bushel of Devon Ever-grass per acre. » 
Another field was seeded out with 
13 lbs. of broad clover, 
4 lbs. of white Dutch, 
2 lbs. of trefoil, 
1 bushel of Italian rye-grass per acre ; 
while a fourth, which, however, was' only put down for spring 
grazing, consisted of 16 lbs. of trefoil, with 1 bushel of Italian 
rye-grass. 
About 15 acres of the young clovers are annually manured in 
