The Farm Prize Competition o/1891. 
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The cropping is varied, as follows, on the Ardenfleets, or far 
end of the farm, which is higher and thinner land than the rest : 
after seeds with rve-grass, left down two or three veai-s, oats are 
sown, then turnips, manured in the ridges and phosphates 
added, next barley with seeds. Or, if slightly better land, 
clovers without rye-grass if followed by wheat, then turnips, and 
oats or barley. On the village farm, wheat is followed by barley, 
turnips, oats and seeds, the second crop of corn being omitted 
at times, at others a crop of pease is inserted to freshen the land 
for seeds and turnips. 
The seed land is all manured after the ewes and lambs have 
nearly finished, and is sown with various wheats, viz. : Hybrid 
King, Square Head, Golden Drop, and sometimes mixtures of 
the above. The barleys chosen are Golden Melon, Chevalier, 
Prize Prolific, Awnless, and Goldthorpe, the last named being 
a short-eared close-set barley, much sought after at present. 
The oats include Tartary, Asia Minor, and Victoria. Fresh seed 
in small quantities is periodically obtained and grown for use 
the next year, thus providing change for all the different fields. 
A little discretion is required in providing food for the 
sheep in the autumn and winter, 15 acres of rape being first 
grown for the lambs, followed by small breadths of Grey Stone, 
Purple Mammoth, Eed Globe, and White Globe ; the main 
breadths being occupied by the Green Globe, after which come 
the hybrids and swedes. The firsi mentioned are most useful 
for a time, but if ten acres too many be on hand, they soon 
possess the qualities of a large sponge rather than of nice crisp 
turnips. 
Not much mangel is grown on the "Wolds, but an acre or 
so proves useful in the spring, gaining in quality what is lost in 
size on such thin soU. If ridged the roots are sown 26 inches 
apart in the row, and 2 feet apart if on the flat. 
The artificials used this year for swedes consisted of 6 bushels 
of bones, and 3 to 4 cwt. mineral phosphate, and a rather 
smaller application for white turnips, all slightly reduced if 
farmyard manure can be spared. 
The ordinary plough of the district is used for ridging, but 
with the addition of a small breast bolted to the near side, and 
very good work was accomplished by this simple plan. 
The turnip land was altogether in satisfactory order, and 
will no doubt produce its full quota this season. 
A piece of sainfoin, a plant quite at home on the thin chalk, 
proves most useful in keeping health amongst the lambs in the 
autumn, than which nothing can be better at that critical time. 
Having so little grass, great reliance is placed in the rota- 
