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Mr. Faunce de Laune's mixture, witliout rye-grass, large dress- 
ings of bone meal being applied. 
The application of farmyard manure to a previous crop a year 
or so before still showed its effects in the new grass, there 
being as a result a thicker and better plant. So large an area 
of old pasture as 246 acres could but be of varied quality, some 
being hilly and rather rough, on which was wintered a number 
of young horses, receiving hay during the severe weather. 
Another and exceedingly rich pasture contained over a score of 
magnificent bullocks, receiving about a cake per day, half linseed 
and half cotton. 
On the racecourse and other fields large numbers of nice 
two-year-olds were running, which had some of them been 
brought for the covered yards to replace others that had gone 
out at 271. each. More had been picked up in lots during the 
autumn and winter, kept in store condition in the covered yards 
at the new farm, and then were grazing and would be sold out 
fat during the winter. 
Proceeding further to the turnip fields, the hogs were seen, 
consisting of about 400 Leicesters and Border Leicesters, having, 
besides cut swedes, about | lb. of cake with pease. They were evi- 
dently in a very thriving condition. 
Two hundred and twenty-five ewes, consisting of 80 pure 
Leicesters and 145 Border Leicesters, were penned by themselves 
on a piece of green globe 
turnips, which had been 
a grand crop, though the 
winter had made sad 
havoc with it. 
The whole of these 
sheep, as also those graz- 
ing on the seeds in the 
summer time, were fenced 
in entirely by galvanised 
wire-netting, the great 
objection to which usually 
is that it sets badly owing 
to being machine made, 
and is often longer at 
one side than the other ; 
the strands also run f,o. 1. 
length-way of the net, 
aiding its tendency to sag down between the stakes, showing 
badly by contrast with the taut appearance of a well-set hemp 
net, 
