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Report of the Judges on the 
the land lies on the western slope of a hill, at the foot of which 
runs the Midland Railway ; the house is near the Ashover and 
Tibshelf road, and the grass-land lies next the house, the more 
distant fields being arable. All this part is cold clay land, and 
requires much skill and industry to make it produce such crops, 
as we saw. 
Cropping and Crops. — The course usually followed is — 
1. Oats on one ploughing. 
2. Roots, or other green crop. 
3. Wheat. 
4. Seeds or green crop. 
The tenant is not restricted as to cropping, but does as seems 
best to him. This year there are — 
11 acres 
wheat. 
10 
5) 
oats (Black Tartars). 
10 
55 
seeds. 
5 
55 
swedes. 
3 
55 
mangolds. 
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'-'2 
55 
cabbage. 
lints (vetches), and fallow. 
2i 
55 
Twelve pecks of wheat per acre were sown. The land is 
quite clean, and the crop promising. It had been top-dressed 
(luring the hard frost by spreading upon it night-soil brought 
from the neighbouring towns, costing nothing but the labour, 
and this had made an evident improvement in tiie colour and 
crop. The oats on the best land were a very fine promising 
plant, and forward. Four and a half bushels were drilled at 
twice, the rows crossing at right angles. Last year the oats 
and wheat were gathered without damage. Oats yielded eight 
quarters per acre on the best land, and between five and six on 
the clay land. Yellow globe mangolds and Hartley's short-top 
swedes of good quality were seen in December, and in May 
a fair plant of both were growing on the nicely ridged land. 
There were also a few Drumhead cabbages, potatoes, and winter 
vetches, here called " lints " or " dills." The small seeds sown 
on the wheat had come up very well, the quantities sown being, 
per acre — 
3^ lbs. cowgrass, 
3^ „ alsyke clover, 
2 „ Avhite clover, 
1 ,, trefoil, 
1^ pecks Italian rye-grass, 
And some seeds out of hay. 
The grass-land, like most other grass-land, has deteriorated 
