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Farming of Cornrrall. 
nging 25 per cent, on the acreage, producinjj from 20 to 27 
bushels of the former, and 15 to J 8 bushels of the latter. The 
land is seldom broken oftener than once in four or five years. 
The breadth of green crops averages from 5 to 10 per cent. ; 
one-half or more is potatoes, the other turnips. The cattle average 
full 20 per cent, on the acreage — the farmers generally keeping 
as many as can be maintained alive during the winter. They 
consist generally of the common Devon kind ; the cows averaging 
from 4 to 5 cwt., and a lew oxen from b\ to 7 cwt. In the sum- 
mer thev have the entire range of the " moors * but their pro- 
gress in growth is verv inconsiderable. There are but a few 
sheep kept, and those are of a very indifferent character. 
10. The Ilensborouf/h district. — The soil on this ' outburst" is 
of a better character; the farms average from 40 to 70 acres, 
with many above and below that range. The rental varies from 
10s. to 355. per acre. The ordinary cropping is to break three- 
years-old pasture for wheat, barley, and grass-seeds, with a vari- 
able proportion of swedes and potatoes preceding the wheat-crop. 
On the better cultivated farms a proportion of rape or pasture 
turnips, which is consumed on the land by sheep (not folded), 
precedes the wheat. The acreable produce varies from 20 to 24 
bushels of wheat, from 28 to 38 of barley, from 36 to 48 of oats, 
and from 25 cwt. to 40 cwt. of hay. f 
11. The third "outburst" includes the parishes between the 
towns of Penrvn, Helston, Redruth, and Camborne, besides which 
there is a small outburst in the parishes of Germoe, Sithney, and 
Breage. The soil varies considerably. The ordinary cropping 
is to break four or five years old pasture for oats, barley, and 
grass-seeds, or oats and grass-seeds, preceded by variable })ropor- 
lions of potatoes and turnips. 1 be acreable produce varies 
from 20 to 50 bushels of oats, from 20 to 30 bushels of barley. 
The cultivation of wheat is exceedingly limited except in Breage, 
Germoe, and in the vicinity of Penryn, where a fair breadth of 
turnips is also grown. In the two former parishes the cropping is 
A^lieat, then oats — without manuring — the potato and turnip 4vith 
manure, after which barley and seeds. The average in these 
places is from 40 to 55 bushels of oats, and from 20 to 30 bushels 
of red wheat jier acre. 
12. The last "outburst" includes the Land s End district and 
round by the west to St. Ives, forming a vast granitic surface, 
* Great numbers of cattle are sent from other districts for summer pas- 
turage on enclosed portions oflhe moors in the neisrhliourliood of Hawkes 
Tor, Bultei-s Tor, &c. ; but the benefit of this practice is very qucstional)le. 
+ In this and every other instance where the value of the land and the 
acreage produce is mentioned, the amounts have been obtained from 
resident practical farmere, whose statements may be safely relied on. 
