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improvements, and permanent improvements have made me," 
and judging from those we saw at Barnsheath we should think 
the improvements he makes are real and judicious, but more 
hereafter. 
The house is pleasantly situated ; one side looking over a 
neatly kept lawn into a grass field, and the other into the yards. 
Below the lawn is a very nicely kept kitchen-garden, where all 
kinds of crops thrive, and weeds hide their diminished heads. 
Here we saw some specially substantial kidney-bean sticks — 
iron hurdles set on end and decorated with scarlet-runners, 
whilst their fellows were piled up in inglorious idleness 
awaiting the winter-folding of sheep. The lambing-yard has 
been specially arranged, so that the master can look into it 
Irom his bedroom. Mr. F. A. Price lives at Barwell, and his 
son, Mr. John Price, manages this farm in a most industrious 
and praiseworthy manner. A large fold-yard, paved with blue 
bricks, is next the lambing-yard, and has round it the cowsheds 
on two sides, with a three-horse engine pulper, chaff-cutter, corn- 
mill (Derbyshire stones), steaming apparatus and mixing-room 
in the corner, and on the fourth side are horse-boxes and stables. 
The chaff-cutting and pulping-room adjoin the stack-yard. 
Tenure. — This farm is not under the Agricultural Holdings 
Act, but a code of allowances is agreed upon between landlord 
and tenant, by which an outgoing tenant can claim for unex- 
hausted improvements, and be sued for dilapidations, foul 
land, &c. Three cottages are taken with the farm, and are let 
to labourers. 
Course of Croppiiir/. — Mr. Price seems to have fixed on a 
course of cropping, to which he sticks in a very stiff-backed 
fashion, and if this year's crops are a fair sample he had better 
do so. The course occupies eight years, and is as follows : — - 
Seeds. Beans or green crop. 
Second seeds. Wheat. 
Oats. Fallow or roots. 
Wlieat. Barley. 
This S-course shift is adopted so that a full plant of clover 
may be secured when seeded down to lie two years. The 
seeding is done very carefully, as indeed every operation seems 
to be. A mixture of many varieties of clover is made : 14 lbs. of 
clover and 1 peck of Pacey's rye-grass, and some rib or Timothy- 
grass are sown on each acre. They are sown at twice, lengthways 
and crossways, as soon as the barley is up, and horseraked in. 
This practice has been adopted for many years with great 
success. 
After the clover is mown for hay, the second growth and 
