254 Report on the Farm-Prize Competition, 1870. 
Swedes are sown between the middle of May and the 10th of 
June, and then the 80 acres of green and white turnips usual] \" 
grown, the whole of turnip-sowing being generally completed 
by the longest day. Swedes are drilled on the flat, 24 inches 
a])art, 4 cwts. of superphosphate being applied by the water- 
drill. The turnips are also sown at the same distance, with, 
however, only 3 cwts. of superphosphate. These are all horse- 
hoed as often as necessary (never less than three times), and then 
hand-hoed, picked, and finished, — the swedes for tis. 6c?., and the 
green and white turnips for 6s. per acre. Nearly all the white 
turnips and generally about three-fourths of the swedes are 
fed off. 
In addition to the above large quantity of roots, 50 acres of 
the seeds are broken up about Midsummer, and sown with white 
mustard, which is fed off by the ewes when they are put to the 
ram, from the middle of September to the end of October. About 
2 cwt. of superphosphate is applied by the water-drill for the 
mustard. • VVhen the land is clear it is sown with wheat in the 
usual course. 
Barley. — Barley follows the whole of the root-crop ; and as 
only about 120 acres of wheat are sown annually, 80 acres of 
the seeds are also sown with barley, the rule being only to sow 
wheat on so much of the seed-shift as has been manured with 
Avell-made farmyard-dung, at the rate of 10 or 12 loads per acre. 
Chevalier is the sort usually grown, and sowing commences 
early in March ; about 10 pecks of seed are drilled per acre ; 
early sowing is held to be of great importance, and nearly all the 
barley is sown by the end of March. Barley is cut by reapers, 
and is all sheafed and shocked at 4s. per acre. 
Seeds. — Small seeds are sown in the barley in the usual way, 
being rolled down by a Cambridge roll immediately after 
sowing. Red clover is sown only once in eight years, trefoil and 
white Dutch, with a little Italian ryegrass for early sheep-feed, 
being sown in the alternate four-course. 
About one-half of the seeds are usually mown for hay, and the 
remainder are fed off by the ewes and lambs, which are liberally 
supplied with cake or corn. As soon as the lambs are weaned 
they are divided into lots, and placed upon the clover eddishes, 
and after harvest upon young seeds and stubbles until they go to 
turnips. 
When the lambs have left the grazed seeds, the dung-cart is 
immediately set to work, and the whole of the farmyard-manure 
is spread over the fields intended for wheat. This operation 
goes on at intervals (regulated by the amount of time during 
which the horses can be spared from their other work) until all 
the manure is spread on the land. 
