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The above are grown on an off-lying farm at Portskewet, 
near Chepstow, the soil being a sandy loam on gravel similar 
to this. 
At this place I have 22 acres grown after wheat (following 
clover), manured with 5 cwt. of damaged decorticated cotton- 
cake per acre, planted early in ^lay. This is a good level clean 
crop, and apparently better seeded than any I have hitherto 
grown. I estimate this crop at 30 cwt. of straw, and 24 bushels 
of seed. The remaining piece I have to mention is 8 acres, 
grown half after barley, half after potatoes, the former manured 
with 1 J cwt. of nitrate of soda per acre, the latter with farmyard- 
manure. This was planted about May 12 ; the crop is equally 
good all over, about 35 cwt. of straw, and 20 bushels of seed, as 
near as I can judge. ^lany of my friends have grown flax this 
year, and from most of them I hear that they are well satisfied 
with the appearance of the crop ; though in one notable instance 
a similar failure to the one above mentioned has occurred, from 
the same causes as led to my own failure, viz. planting too- 
early, and before the land had lain long enough to allow the 
annual weeds to germinate and be destroyed. As the result of 
another year's experience, I am more than ever persuaded that it 
is a mistake to plant flax very early, that a fine warm seed-bed 
is most desirable, that annual weeds should be most carefully 
destroyed before planting, and that I must grow at least 100 acres- 
next year. 
XXV. — Deerfoot Farm Centrifugal Dairy. By E. Lewis 
StuKTEVANT, M.D., Waushakum Farm, South Framingham, 
Mass. 
[Abridged from the Eeport of the Agricultural Department of the United States- 
for 1S80]. 
Pekhaps it is safe to say there is no farm in America which 
can present so much that is novel and useful to the observer as 
Deerfoot Farm, Southborough, Mass., the property of Air. 
Edward Burnett. It is not amateur farming that is to be seen 
here, but real " fancy " farming, the use of intensive conditions, 
the employment of abundance of labour, and the availing prac- 
tically of every new idea adapted to the conditions that promise 
improved profits. 
This farm covers about 300 acres, of which some 100 are 
tillable. Its specialties are fancy pork, gilt-edged butter and 
cream, family milk, skim-milk, and buttermilk. 
To meet these requirements much money has been expended 
for conveniences, and the farm partakes in its management of 
