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with about 8 to 10 per cent, of potatoes and turnips antecedent to 
the wheat crop. The corn crops average from 16 to 20 bushels 
of wheat, about 24 to 40 bushels of barley, and from 32 to 
40 bushels of oats per acre. On the better managed farms, where 
a greater breadth of green crops, particularly of turnips, is grown, 
the yield is full one-quarter more. The cattle average from 16 
to 20 per cent, and breeding ewes from 25 to 30 per cent, on the 
acreage. 
25. Still continuing our route on the coast line, we have a fair, 
fertile district, embracing the parishes of Mevagissey, St. Ewe, 
St. Michael Carhayes, and Gorran. The soil is of a loamy 
character, frequently inclining to the clayey, resting on brown, 
grey, and variegated slates. Limestone, associated with slate 
rocks of a semiporphyritic character, is found leading from Gorran 
Haven to Veryan Bay. At Gorran Haven we have masses of 
quartz rocks," a vein of which runs through the parish. Where 
these intermingle with the slates, they form a tough, clayey soil, 
intermixed with pudding-stones of a " slag " like appearance. 
Land in immediate connexion with these quartz rocks is wet, 
cold, and unproductive. The farms vary from 20 to 580 acres ; 
one of the largest (Bodrigan) in the county being situated here. 
The rental averages from 20s. to 25s. per acre. The ordinary 
cropping is to break three years' old pasture for wheat, followed 
by barley or oats, and seeds, with about 6 or 8 per cent, of 
potatoes and turnips previous to the wheat crop. On the better 
cultivated farms the method adopted is to put lialf of the old 
pastures into rape and pasture turnips — the former eaten off the 
land by sheep — which is put into wheat, after which barley or 
oats and seeds ; the other half is put into turnips and potatoes, 
followed by barley or oats, and seeded out. The cropping on a 
few farms is wheat, turnips, barley, seeds, with a fair proportion 
of rape preceding the wheat. The corn crops average from 16 
to 24 bushels of wheat, from 28 to 36 bushels of barley, and from 
36 to 42 bushels of oats. On the better cultivated farms the 
average is full one fourth more. Hay averages about IJ ton 
per acre. Live stock averages from 18 to 20 cattle, chiefly cows; 
and from 25 to 35 breeding ewes on 100 acres. 
26. The next district on our route embraces several parishes 
called " Roseland." The soils are of a more loamy character 
than the last described. Limestones are mingled with the slates 
in Veryan, and a small patch of serpentine and diallage at the 
Nare Head, but neither of sufficient breadth to give a character 
to the soils. On the cliff lands the soils are light, lying with very 
little subsoil on the slates, and burning exceedingly in dry 
weather (14). The farms vary from 50 to 200 acres, and are 
let from 20s. to 40s. per acre. A great many cliff estates, from 
