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Besides swedes, Mr. Powell sows a few acres of early white 
turnips for the use of the lambs from September until nearly 
Christmas. Being all consumed on the ground, there is less 
need for applying farmyard dung, from 6 to 7 cwts. of artificial 
manure generally bringing an abundant crop. Besides stubble 
turnips, which succeed well here when the autumn is moderately 
favourable, care is taken always to put in from 15 to 20 acres of 
other catch crops. The dwarf white pea, sown in March, after 
oats, will, with the aid of 3 to 4 cwts. of dissolved bones, yield 
45 to 50 bushels per acre. This is followed by white mustard, 
put in during July, and on which the sheep are generally penned 
in September or October. It is often convenient to grow a piece 
of common turnips alongside the mustard, and a strip of each, 
with the addition of hay twice a day, forms a very excellent run 
for the lambs. A still better plan is to have, as this year, a 
2-acre plot of potatoes between the mustard and the turnips, as, by 
folding the sheep across the whole three, the food is kept clean, 
and the potato ground enriched by the sheep-droppings. 
Wheat. — Wheat or barley (according to the nature of the soil, 
and the kind of crop taken off the same ground in the previous 
course) is planted after roots, the mangold ground being cross- 
ploughed in November, and the turnip ground stirred, to prevent 
loss of fertilizing matter, as soon as the sheep have cleared a few 
acres. With favourable weather wheat sowing begins the first 
week in February, and can, without risk to the crop, be con- 
tinued until March. The seed is dressed with sulphate of copper 
(1 lb. to 5 imperial bushels) and drilled, 8 rows at a time, and 
7 in. apart, at the rate of 2\ imperial bushels to the acre. In 
April, or as soon as the young corn is able to bear it, all the 
wheat crop is well harrowed and heavily rolled, but does not 
require hoeing. The kinds commonly grown are the Chiddam, 
Nursery, Hallett's, and Biddell's imperial, and the yield per acre 
is about 32 bushels. 
Barley. — Barley, being apt to lodge, requires to be sown 
early. The first planted receives 2^ bushels per acre, while 
later in the season this is increased to 3 bushels. Hallett's 
Chevalier is the favourite sort, and the produce of an acre is 
usually 40 bushels. Like the wheat and oats, barley is drilled 
7 inches between the rows. 
Seeds. — Clover and grass seeds are sown by broadcast drill 
on the barley and wheat after roots, and covered by the chain 
harrow and roller. The mixture commonly used on an acre of 
land is as follows : — 4 lbs. Cowgrass, 4 lbs. Red Clover, 2 lbs. 
Alsike Clover, 1 peck Ryegrass (Pacey's), with the addition, if 
the field be intended to lie down two or three years, of 2 lbs. to 
3 lbs. of white clover. The greater part of the seed-shift is 
