The late Charles Rundell. 
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lord, Mr. Holland, giving a full account of the system of burning 
clay which he had adopted. This was followed by another letter to 
the late Mr. Thompson in 1863, giving the results of his expe- 
rience. He was a very warm advocate of this practice, both as 
an aid to cultivation and fertility when the clay, couch, and 
other rubbish were burnt in small heaps and the ashes spread 
upon the land ; and also when banks were burnt in clamps, and 
the burnt clay was used to bed sheep feeding in pens, and 
afterwards as a manure for the growth of roots. 
Shropshire sheep were reported upon by him in connection with 
the Shows at Leeds and Bury St. Edmunds with a wai-m appre- 
ciation of their merits as rent -payers, and at Bury he remarks 
that their owners are unsparing in their efforts to excel one 
another in breeding, feeding, and sheariwj. At the same Show 
he is puzzled to tind out the merits of the Suffolk sheep, and 
writes strongly on the necessity of the Council dealing with the 
shearing and trimming questions. 
He was an excellent judge of most kinds of stock, and con- 
stantly in request,' and he set his face very determinedly both at 
the Council and in the Show-field against the tricks of sheep- 
shearing and of colouring pigs. 
He was very communicative to inquirers on agi'icultural 
questions, and whether to Mr. John Algernon Clarke on steam 
cultivation, or to Mr. Morton seeking for information on the 
effects of seasons in 1868 and 1872, he was equally ready to 
give the result of his experience. In 1868 he finished his 
harvest on the last day of J uly, and had then only five acres of 
cabbage and two of mangold for 1,000 sheep; but with his usual 
resource he at once sowed 133 acres with mustard, rape, and 
turnips, and these growing rapidly in the heated soil he con- 
trived to winter his Hock. 
After the passing of the Agricultural Holdings Act of 1875, 
he furnished for the Journal copies of agreements which he had 
used for some years. The object of these was to " provide for 
freedom as to cropping and disposal of produce, a large amount 
of compensation for unexhausted manures and food, and a 
remedy for the landlord in case of waste by enabling him to set 
off the penalty for default against the amount of compensation 
to which the tenant is entitled for hay, straw, roots, and acts of 
husbandry." 
He did not believe in tenants laying clay land down to 
grass. In 1882 he writes: "Tenants know that with a return 
' Mr. llanclcU judged Shropshire sheep for the Society on no less than eight 
occasions, viz. in 18G0, 186J, 18C3, 1873, 1875, 1878, 1885, and 1887. 
