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roots have been removed deducting the full value of such roots. 
Payment would also be made to the outgoing tenant for manure 
at its value, and away-going price for straw, &c. 
Cropping. — The usual course of cropping followed is roots, 
barley, seeds, wheat, beans, wheat. The seeds may lie one or 
two years. Fourteen acres are glebe-land ; of this a 10^-acre 
piece was seeded down four years ago, and has not been 
ploughed since ; it was sown with seeds to lie two years, and as 
the seeds seemed to do well other seeds were sown ; the field was 
dressed with lime and soil, and now there is a good sward with 
abundance of white clover. The other 3J acres were seeded 
with permanent seeds, and have a better plant than the 10^ 
acres. This land is evidently much more valuable as pasture. 
It might have been better if the 3.^-acre lot had been laid down 
level, as the other field is, instead of being in lands ; as furrows 
are liable to grow rushes, and tops of lands to burn ; besides, 
furrows are always dangerous to sheep. 
Crops. — The acreage of the different crops on the farm are 
Wheat, 20 acres. 
Oats, 7^ ,, 
Barley, 9 „ 
Beans (winter), 10^ „ 
Mangolds, 2| „ 
Potatoes and turnips, 4 ,, 
Cabbage, li ,, 
Seeds, 13 „ 
The quantities of seed sown per acre were 
Wheat, 2|- bushels, early, and 3 bushels later. 
Barley, 2J bushels. 
Oats, 4 „ 
Beans, 3 ,, 
Wheat. — The wheat is Hunter's white, and though one field, 
after beans, would have looked better if there had been no 
squitch in it — and last summer was a bad one to clean such 
land — it looked very well in July, and one field is probably the 
best we have seen this year — a full plant, tall and well headed ; 
it looks like quite six quarters per acre. Last year Mr. Rossell 
never stacked it, but threshed it in the field and sold it for seed, 
and he may do so again. This was after mustard, grown on pin- 
fallow (seeds ploughed and worked), the mustard ploughed in. 
Barley. — That after the mangolds is a very nice crop, though 
not strong enough in the straw to bear much rough weather. 
With good weather Mr. Rossell will get a lot of nice barley. 
Oats. — Oats are growing where seeds should have been, but 
they were not good enough to stand. Some Black Tartars 
