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promise a good crop, but some costly seed from a well-known 
seed firm did not come up half thick enough. 
Beans. — Mr. Rossell is growing winter beans, and the severe 
winter has much injured them, especially where the snow 
drifted and left the land bare on that terrible 18th of January. 
However, they are well kidded, though short, and will no 
doubt thresh well. They were drilled 22 inches apart, and 
have been several times horse-hoed and hand-hoed, and just 
before the last hoeing were sown with rape, which had come up 
well at our last inspection. There was an excellent sample of 
old beans in the granary, some of which had been sold at 48s. 
per quarter. 
Roots. — About 2J acres of yellow globe mangolds were very 
good indeed, and gave every promise of being a heavy crop, 
though the maggots of the mangold-fly had done much mischief 
to them. Part of the seed had been supplied by Webb and 
part by Carter, but we could not see which was best at our last 
visit. The swedes had given Mr. Rossell much anxiety, for the 
turnip-beetle attacked them in a very determined manner ; and 
with equal determination Mr. Rossell defended them by draw- 
ing over them elder boughs, horse-hoeing with elder boughs 
tied to the sides of horse-hoe, rolling, sprinkling with diluted 
paraffin, and finally with fresh slaked lime. This was too much 
lor the beetles, and Mr. Rossell was victorious, as he deserved 
to be, for he had been at them as early as 3 A.M. and as late as 
10 P.M. They were in July a vigorous plant, though a little 
irregular in the rows. As on most well-managed dairy farms, 
there was a patch of Drumhead cabbages, which were doing 
very well. 
Seeds. — The mixture of seeds sown by Mr. Rossell is 10 lbs. 
red clover, 2 lbs. white clover, 2 lbs. trefoil, and half a gallon of 
Italian rye-grass. 
There are 13 acres of very good clover ; on part of it 3 cwts. 
per acre of soot had been sown, which had the effect of doubling 
the crop. This was an excellent investment. 
At our last visit a very good stack of capital fodder was 
secured from the seed-field as well as 15 acres of excellent 
meadow hay. Mr. Rossell estimates the average produce of his 
clover at 40 cwts. per acre, and his meadow grass at 32 cwts. to 
35 cwt. 
Grass Land. — In May a few thistles were growing, but in 
July all the grass-land was well looked after, and, excepting the 
outlying land by the Trent, which has so strong a tendency to 
get rough in wet seasons, was not only free from weeds, but full 
of fine grasses and clovers. Want of good water is a serious 
defect in several grass-fields, and difficult to be remedied. 
