SIG Report on the Farm-Prize Competition of 1872. 
Mangolds, though not largely, are certainly successfully 
grown througliout the district under consideration. Thirty-five 
to fort}' tons are no unusual crop ; and, when properly stored in 
October or before the early frosts, they keep sound and juicy 
until after Midsummer. The kinds most in favour are the Long 
Red and Yellow Globe. When clean enough, and the weather 
favourable, the mangold ground is heavily manured in autumn 
(20 to 30 tons per acre), ploughed, and left for sowing as early 
in April as possible. The seed is generally planted in drills 
26 to 27 inches apart, though some growers prefer them on the. 
flat, especially in dry situations. At the time of sowing, from 
6 to 10 cwts. of phosphatic manures, and 3 to 5 cwts. of common 
salt, are aj)plied per acre in addition to the dressing of dung. 
The treatment of swedes is similar to that for mangolds, except 
that the quantity of farmyard manure is less liberal, and dissolved 
bones, Kainit, nitrate of soda, and superphosphate, separately or 
mixed, form the auxiliary manures. They are for the most part 
sown on drills, and put in from the middle of May to the end of 
June. From one-third to one-half the swedes are generally taken 
home for consumption by the cattle-stock, while the remainder 
are pitted where they grow, or deposited on the poorer grass- 
fields and consumed by sheep. Early white or yellow turnips 
are but sparingly grown, the intention being simply to produce 
sufficient to maintain the lamb-stock during October and Novem- 
ber, and a few for the ewes in hard weather. They are, how- 
ever, extensively sown in the month of July, generally on the 
flat, after vetches, white mustard, trifolium, and such like catch- 
crops, have been consumed. Carrots and cabbages, beans and peas, 
are very little cultivated, and potatoes are seldom grown except for 
home consumption. 
Wheat, though occasionally taken after roots, is more com- 
monly grown upon the clover-leas. The autumn wheats are sown 
in October and November, and the spring sorts from the middle 
of January to the end of March. The varieties generally sown 
are Talavera, Chiddam, Velvet-chaff, Nursery, Browick Red, 
Biddell's Imperial, <Scc. To prevent smut, the seed is, for t^he most 
part, dressed with a solution of sulphate of copper (blue vitriol) at 
the rate of 1 lb. to 4 or 5 imperial bushels ; the old-fashioned plan 
of depending upon brine and caustic lime having been entirely 
laid aside. Two-and-a-half bushels per acre is a common seed- 
ing, and an average crop will yield, in a tolerable season, 40 
bushels, though on some of the best cultivated farms 50 bushels 
are not uncommon. 
Barley, although in a few isolated cases taken after wheat, is 
almost invariably planted after roots, and drilled at the rate of 
2 to 3 bushels per acre, according to the condition of the land 
