16 Agriculture of Nottiuf/hamshire. 
rain to pass more easily through it. From the same cause it 
admits more freely the sun and wind, and is in consequence 
sooner ready to carry. A strong prejudice existed for some years 
against the practice, but it has now given way, the advantages 
being too decided to be any longer doubted. The price is from 
6s. to 8s. an acre, and occasionally 9s. may be given, which in- 
cludes mowing, taking up and binding the sheaves, as well as 
taking up and binding the rakings. 
Oats are not much sown on the sand lands ; a crop is some- 
times taken after two years' grass seeds, as fodder for the working 
horses ; the land being afterwards manured and sown with wheat. 
In general two white crops in succession are opposed to good 
farming ; but when the land is in high condition, and obtams an 
extra dressing of manure as compensation, it cannot reasonably 
be objected to. 
Peas both white and grey are occasionally sown in the place of 
the red clover crop, under an impression that the land in the 
following course will be more certain for clover. They are 
drilled wide so that the horsehoe may be applied. A single 
crop of peas is not unfrequently taken after the wheat crop, the 
land being fallowed the succeeding year for swede turnips. 
Vetches are sown extensively for soiling the working horses 
during the summer months. Those for early mowing are sown 
on the wheat stubble as soon as that crop has been removed, and 
are protected during the winter by an admixture of rye. A suc- 
cession of crops is provided throughout the season ; the land, as 
we have belbre stated, is sown with white turnips as soon as it is 
cleared of the vetches. The most economical manner of using 
vetches is to cut them with a proportion of dry fodder ; the horses 
will, when thus fed, go through their work much better, and be 
less liable to suffer from disorders of the stomach and bowels, 
occasioned by feeding too freely on them in an unmixed state, 
when they return hungry from their work. 
On most of the large farms, the cutting of chaff for horse food 
is performed by horse power. 
In some instances steam-engines have been erected, which in 
addition to the cutting of chaff, thrash out the grain, as well as 
grind what is necessary for the use of the farm. Earl Spencer 
has had one on his farm at Wiseton for several years past. Mr. 
Smith, of Gringley-on-the-Hill, has lately erected a small, but 
complete engine, which is capable of thrashing out about eight 
quarters of wheat an hour, and is made applicable to several other 
useful purposes. These, and more which might be mentioned, 
we doubt not will be but the forerunners of others, as the neces- 
sity for economy in every department of labour shall become more 
urgent. 
