Farming of CormcalL 
413 
Sheep, 
ParUhes. 
Character of Soils. 
Rental. 
Breeding 
Ewes. 
Sheep 
Fed. 
Weight 
per 
Quarter. 
Cattle 
Fed. 
s. 
lbs. 
Egloshayle 
Loamy and sbelfy • 
30 
33 
30 
18 
3 
St. Minver . . 
St. Michael . 
jClayey, sbelfy, light. 
20 
25 
15 
16 
1 
St. Enodock . 
St. Endellion . 
f Loam V, shel fy , and 1 
( calcareous . . . I 
38 
45 
45 
21 
4 
St. Kew . . 
Clayey and sbelfy . 
28 
35 
20 
18 
2 
.St. Mabyu . . 
Friable loam and sbelfy 
35 
40 
35 
20 
4 
St. Tudv , , 
Loamy .... 
30 
30 
20 
18 
3 
St. Teatii . . 
Sbelfy and felspathic 
18 
20 
10 
17 
The ordinary system of cropping is to break two years' old 
pasture for wheat, barley, and seeds, and occasionally 4 to 5 per 
cent, of potatoes preceding the wheat. On the better cultivated 
farms the practice is to break three years' old pasture for wheat, 
barley, and seeds, with a sprinkling of swedes and white turnips 
introduced between these two corn crops. Here and there a fair 
breadth of swedes is sown, but the average of the whole district 
will scarcely exceed 4 or 5 per cent, of turnips. The average 
proportion of corn grown varies from 
20 to 25 acres of wheat, yielding from 18 to 30 bushels per acre. 
16 to 20 ditto barley, ' ditto 30 to 43 ditto. 
4 to 5 ditto oats, ditto 36 to 48 ditto. 
The greatest breadth of corn and the smallest yield per acre being 
produced on the worst cultivated farms. 
21. Extending our survey still further on the north coast from 
Boscastle to Morwenstow, we arrive at the most northern point 
of the county. We find here quite a different geological forma- 
tion from any other, constituting a part of the carbonaceous 
deposits" of Devon and Cornwall. (6.) This district embraces 
a great many parishes, and can easily be defined on the map. 
Confining our attention to the " Stratton hundred " as an example, 
we find about three quarters of the country resting on beds of stiff 
yellow clay, " being the common product of the decomposed 
shales and sandstones," and affording a very unproductive soil, 
the greatest part of which requires thorough draining. On the 
northern part adjoining the sea coast, there is a thin stony soil 
occasionally intermixed with beds of clay, better adapted for sheep 
land than any other in the district ; for from the shallowness of 
the soil, and the lands being much exposed, the winds careering 
without a single obstruction over the immense surface of the At- 
lantic, the crops are exceedingly variable. We have splendid coast 
scenery here 3 but to the eye of a farmer the very heath seems 
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