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■The Farm Prize Competition &/ 1891. 
Vfill better explain how the work is done. Not only was the 
cmsfc broken by the weight of the rollers, which can be adjusted, 
but the patent side hoes had shaved the soU and weed off 
much more closely than in the drawing, so closely indeed that 
many plants appeared as if cut up, but on further examination 
they were found to be intact. For those who sow many turnips 
on the ridges, this is a most valuable yet simple implement. 
A good breadth of potatoes is usually planted, perhaps thirty 
acres, after the seeds ; one ton per acre of Magnums is generally 
Fig. 2. 
set, but a few Bruce and Reading Giants are being trie4 as well 
this year. 
Mr. Parkin puts on 20 two-horse loads from the fold- 
yard, also 7 cwt. per acre of potato manure, and 3 tons of 
shoddy, which is largely used and much liked on the farm. 
Men were busily engaged in hoeing round the jjlants, but it was 
feared, unless wonderful weather ensued, that the land could not 
be made clean. A London dealer had, unfortunately for the 
tenant, bought the last season's crop by the acre, and as potatoes 
rose fully 100 per cent, he would no doubt secure large profits. 
The list of stock returned included twenty horses, one bt'ing 
a Shire stallion, bred by the Earl of Ellesmere, by which several 
mares were in foal. 
