Derhy Prize-Farm Competition, 1881. 
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the second year's lay are jjrazed, chiefly with sheep, which 
consume on it corn and cake, and in the winter roots. The 
arable land is too strong for folding sheep upon in winter, 
so roots are drawn into the second seeds, made into heaps 
and well covered, and then eaten, with corn and cake, in folds 
by the sheep. 
The land is then ploughed up with a thin and flat furrow, 
sown broadcast, with 3 bushels Poland oats, and then drilled 
across with the same quantity. After oats comes wheat, for 
which the land in any but the wettest season receives 2 tons 
per acre of quick-lime. Beans follow the wheat, the land being 
manured and drilled at the end of October or beginning of 
November ; the rows are placed 18 inches apart, so that they 
can be horse-hoed. Wheat is taken after beans, then comes 
fallow for roots. Yard-manure at the rate of 15 tons per acre, 
with 3 cwts. Peruvian guano, and 4 cwts. salt are applied. 
Roots are drawn off, and land ploughed for barley and seeded. 
Crops this year are — 
22 acres wheat after oats and beans. 
22 „ barley after roots. 
15 „ oats after second seeds. 
7 „ winter beans after wheat. 
16 ,, roots. 
16 ,, young seeds. 
12 ,, second seeds. 
Wheat. — The varieties grown are Square-head and Boston 
stump, both fields were perfectly clean, and had nice level 
crops with excellent ears. The wheat had been sown broadcast. 
Barley. — This can scarcely be called barley-land proper, and 
yet one might go many miles any way to find two such grand, 
full, level fields of barley ; though very strong and luxuriant, 
the owner protested against the suspicion that any top-dressing 
had been used. 
Oats. — This is a bad year for oats, but Mr. Price's oats have 
grown in happy ignorance of the fact. They were thick and 
strong, so that they resisted the foot, and tapped on the ankle 
<as one pressed a way through them ; acres of them were as high 
as a man's shoulders. Mr. Price, jun., had ploughed the land 
and sowed them himself, and they could not be more regular. 
One thistle was the only weed we saw in the 15 acres. 
Beans had been injured by the severe weather, and were best 
on the sheltered side of the field ; they were short but well 
corned. They had been horse-hoed, and four times hand-hoed. 
The soil was nice and loose, though a few small thistles 
struggled into sight where beans were thinnest. 
