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the young seeds, which are sown in a somewhat novel fashion 
without a corn crop. The land which has gi'own potatoes and 
mangolds is seeded in the following spring with 4 lbs. red clover, 
■J; lbs. cow-grass, 4 lbs. trefoil, 1 peck Italian ryegrass ; and 
4 lbs. rape seed is drilled with them. In some part of June 
following the mixture should be quite fit for stocking, and at a 
time when the earliest fed (second year) seeds are getting a 
little bare for lambs, and they begin to want a suitable change. 
The rape affords a little shelter for the young clovers, and though 
not eaten by the sheep upon first entry is fed down readily 
enough when the sweeter gi'asses have been closely bitten, as 
Mr. Beasley says they ought to be. When all is fed as bare as 
possible, the sheep are moved to another field to allow the first 
to freshen. The seeds are, of course, left to a second year, 
when they are mostly mown, and extraordinary crops of clover 
hay are taken. The Judges were much impressed by the rich 
and strong appearance of the young seeds in the later days of 
June of a very unfavourable year for them, and believe that 
upon land so suitable for the purpose, upon which no doubt 
success mainly depends, the system is a very valuable one. 
A flock of ewes provides all the sheep required for the farm, 
and calves are bought or bred for reai-ing. 
Mr. Beasley keeps very careful and accurate accounts, but 
takes no valuation at beginning or end of each year, the number 
and weight of live and dead stock being, he says, about the 
same always at these periods, and he does not see the advantage 
of estimating from time to time the fluctuations in their value 
either one way or the other. He adopts the encouraging plan 
of giving his workpeople a bonus, or a percentage, on his profits, 
after deducting five per cent, interest on capital, and they are to 
be congratulated at all events on the results of the last year. 
The three previous years unfortunately show balances on the 
wrong side ; but Mr. Beasley is certainly not alone in that 
experience, and the loss is put down in great part to the heaAy 
weight of some fi'esh land taken four years since in poor con- 
dition, which is only just beginning to give a reasonable return. 
The back accounts show good returns upon the home farm 
before the outlying land was taken in hand. The accounts of 
the entered and non-entered farms are unfortunately kept as 
one, and are quite incapable of disentanglement, hence all are 
given together. The unentered land was seen as well as the 
other, and the excellent crops upon it showed that effort and 
enterprise were beginning to tell. It is worthy of notice that 
if the interest received by Mr. Beasley upon his capital has not 
always been very large, neither has the principal been large 
