578 Somersetshire Farm-Prize Competition, 1875. 
Tvheat of previous growth is on a larger acreage than that, part 
of it is seeded down the same as the barley. 
Roots. — Cabbages are drilled about the middle of March, on 
land cleaned in the autumn and winter-ploughed 7 to 8 inches 
deep ; they are put 30 inches apart, and singled a distance of 2 feet. 
Mangolds are sown 20 inches apart on the flat, and swedes and 
common turnips 18 inches. Farmyard-manure is applied to the 
land where it is intended to remove the crop for the stock, and 
4 cwt. of superphosphate and dissolved coprolites is used per acre 
for all the roots which are sown with Reeves' manure-drill with 
steerage. Vetches are put on those parts of the stubbles that 
are to be succeeded bv common turnips. The Yellow Globe 
mangold, Improved Purple-top swede, and Aberdeen hybrid, 
and Green Round turnips are the varieties generally grown. 
Wheat. — Thick-set Essex is usually sown. The seed is 
changed every two years. The ley ground is sown towards the 
end of October with 6 pecks per acre, and this quantity of seed is 
increased as the season advances and also where wheat succeeds 
roots. The leys are partly manured with farmyard-manure and 
partly with lime previous to being sown with wheat. 
Barley. — Chevalier barley, at the rate of about 10 pecks per 
acre, is sown after swedes or turnips fed off. It is seeded down 
with mixed seeds in the following proportions — ' 
5 lbs. of trefoil. 
3 „ alsike. 
10 ,, broad clover. 
^ bushel of Pacey's rye-grass. 
Acreage under respective Crops this Year. 
ilay, 18T5. 
July, 1875, or to follow Crop. ; 
Acreage. 
Crop. 
Crop. 
G8 
Wheat. 
Wheat. 
11 
Barley, seeded. 
Barley, seeded. 
10 
Beans. 
Beans. , 
23 
Clover. 
Clover. 
4 
Cabbages. 
Cabbages. 
10 
Fallow. 
Swedes. 
5 
Ditto. 
Tankards. 
• 8 
Mangolds. 
Mangolds. 
10 
Vetches. 
Aberdeen hybrids. 
3 
Trifolium. 
Swedes. 
Summary. 
Cereals 79 acres. 
Beans and Clovers 33 „ 
Roots and Green Crops 40 „ 
Total . ,152 acres. 
