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comprises red clover, alsike, white Dutch, cow-grass, and ^ bushel 
Italian rye-grass. Field No. 22, 7a. 3r., and part of No. 10, about 
6 acres, comprise the seed-break this year. The crop in both cases 
was as good as possible. In No. 22, the young seeds after barley 
were top-dressed in the autumn with well-rotted farmyard-manure, 
followed in December by a mixture of equal parts of bone-meal 
and superphosphate, at the rate of 5 cwt. per acre, at a cost of 
255. Grazed with ewe-hoggs up to Christmas, rested till the be- 
ginning of March, then fed by ewes and lambs up to the begin- 
ning of May, and with a little rain, there was the certainty of an 
abundant crop by the middle of July ; indeed, given clean land, 
as this is, and a good plant, it would be a matter of surprise if 
such treatment did not produce great results. On our last visit, 
July 10, these seeds were still growing, the rye-grass was just 
coming into flower, and the clover was partly in flower. One of 
the Judges, viewing the field from a distance, not unnaturally re- 
marked that it was a splendid crop of barley. We never remember 
to have seen any crop of such bulk, which we estimated at from 
2^ to 3 tons per acre. No. 24, 14a. Or. 12p., consisting of oats 
and wheat, were excellent crops, and with a favourable finish 
must yield very largely. No. 18, 8a. 2r, Ip., was a capital field of 
awnless barley, quite as much as could stand. The 6 acres of 
No. 10, not having been grazed since Christmas, and having had, 
like the others, 5 cwt. of bone-meal, &c., was a sight to see, so 
thick, full of clovers, and forward. This must cut a big crop 
whatever the weather might be. At our last visit in July we 
found a splendid fog grazed with the lambs, having 1 lb. a head 
of common cotton-cake daily. They had been dipped and dressed 
with Morris's fly-powder, and were thriving and much grown. 
The root-break, on the judicious handling of which so much of 
the success of the rotation depends, occupied this year No. 23, 
12a. 4p., and 4 acres of the lower part of No. 10. In the former 
case, the wheat-stubble was well cultivated, then ploughed with 
a deep furrow. It was cultivated across in spring and well 
worked, bouted up, and 10 to 11 tons of farmyard-manure 
applied, on which were sown broadcast across the drills 4 cwt. of 
superphosphate and 2 cwt. of guano. Swedes, supplied by Carter 
and Co., were just peeping when we saw them in May. The 
land was in splendid condition, as fine as a garden, and perfectly 
clean. These swedes were much punished by dry weather and 
fly, but, owing to condition and tilth, pulled through, and were 
established and growing well in July, promising a first-rate crop. 
The 4 acres of No. 10 consisted of 2^ acres of Magnum Bonum 
potatoes grown with a heavy dressing of foldyard-manure, 4 cwt. 
of kainit, and 2 cwt. of guano, which should secure a crop on 
this, the lightest and weakest field of the farm, and IJ acres of 
