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Report of the Jadrjes on the 
Barlefj. — The large breadth of barley looked like being a 
generally good crop, and if sold as well as it was last year (42s. 
or 43s. per quarter) will make a nice sum of money. Several 
fields at our May inspection threatened to be full of weeds, but 
the hoe had changed all that before our visit in July. 
Seeds. — At our July visit some clover-hay was being led in 
excellent order. There was a fair crop, tall, but not thick. 
Several other fields were being grazed with sheep, and it was pro- 
posed to break up one field that was not clean. All the young 
clovers seemed to be an excellent plant. Mr. Finney's usual 
mixture is 12 lbs. clover, red and alsyke, and 1 peck of Italian 
rye-grass. Seeds on this farm had been supplied by three firms, 
Barron, Carter, and Webb. 
Mangolds. — A ten-acre piece of mangolds near the Trent 
looked promising, though the mangold-fly had made great 
havoc in them between the May and July inspections. The 
land for mangolds was steam-ploughed in the autumn about 
7 inches deep. Twenty tons of night-soil that had been brought 
up the Trent from Nottingham, and delivered near the field at 
2s. 9d. per ton, were put on each acre with half a ton of soot 
early in April. The land was then well harrowed, and on 
April 18th drilled on the flat, 21 inches from row to row, and 
plants were set out at 9 inches apart. 
Some swedes were an excellent plant, drilled on the flat, 
horse-hoed, and struck out by July 11th. They looked very 
clean and promising. We saw two single horse-hoes at work, 
one boy walking between and leading both horses. 
The following was a preparation for another lot of swedes. 
The ground was ploughed in the winter, well worked, and re- 
ploughed in spring ; 10 cart-loads of rotten dung were spread 
in ridges, and 4 cwts. per acre of dissolved bones added ; and, 
as the weather was then dry, care was taken to cover in the 
dung and drill up to the plough each evening. 
Cattle. — One feature of this farm is the excellence of the 
cattle ; and the way in which this quality Avas obtained is 
worthy of notice. For many years past well-bred Shorthorn 
sires have been kept, and their impression on the stock is very 
well marked. There seems to have been a steady and con- 
tinual improvement in quality. Among the dairy cattle were 
excellent animals, which will make fine pieces of beef when it 
seems best to draft them out. Indeed their frames were so 
good, and their feeding properties so evident, that it seemed an 
open question whether beef had not developed faster than milk. 
The numbers of cattle in December and May are given below, 
July being the same as May : — 
