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flanked by well-kept and productive kitchen-garden quarters, 
looks over level turf fields and low quick-fences, down to the 
River Trent and beyond. A little corner of the field between 
the house and the road has been fenced off by Mr. Hellaby, 
planted with shrubs and evergreens, a pretty path left through 
it, and a wicket-gate to the public road. It is some years since 
this Avas done ; the shrubs have grown up, and add much to the 
cosy and pleasant look of the farmhouse. 
The Buildings are good and substantial, the more modern 
and convenient ones having been built by the present tenant. 
These improvements, especially the garden and shrubberies, are 
the sort of links that seem to bind and hold a tenant to a jjlace 
— these must be broken through if he must go away. 
Size of Farm.- — Twyford f arm is 173 acres — 53 arable and 
120 grass. At Stenson, IJ miles from Twyford, there are 125 
acres. We will deal with Twyford Farm first. 
Character. — It is all light land with Trent gravel as subsoil, 
and is the property of Sir J. H. Crewe, Calke Abbey, Derby- 
shire. One mile from the house, on the south side of the farm, 
is the Trent — last winter it came within half a mile. On its 
banks are Mr. Hellaby 's best pasture fields, though they have 
suffered, like other grass land, and are not now worth so much 
as they were half a dozen years since. On the further side of 
the Trent are some high rocks with caves in them, which look 
as if they may have been the dwellings of the Troglodyte in- 
habitants of the Midlands when Nottingham caves were peopled. 
The farm is quite level, and when the Trent rises a few feet 
over its banks, half the farm, including much of the arable land, 
is covered. There are more trees on some of it than are good 
for fences or crops ; they are mostly ash, oak, and elm ; from 
this and other farms we saw, we infer that the owner has a 
liking, not exactly harmless, for trees about his farms. 
Tenure. — Mr. Hellaby entered in 1868, and is a yearly tenant. 
His agreement would give to the outgoing tenant \l. per acre for 
all swedes and mangolds grown in the last year of the tenancy, 
and 3/. per acre for turnips ; ibr grains, one-fifth of the cost ; 
for cake, meal, and purchased-corn, one-third of the cost and 
carriage, for all consumed in the last year; full value for manure 
left, seed and labour on all wheats and clovers sown. 
Ccnrse of Cropping. — A six-course of cropping is usually fol- 
lowed, viz. oats, wheat, roots, barley, seeds, and second seeds. 
Crops. — This year there are — 
Mangolds, 8 acres. Carter's Warden, and Webb's 
Yellow Globe. 
Swedes, 4 acres * 
Cabbage, 2 
