78 
Report of the Judges on the 
The following table gives the cropping of the farm for the 
year 1879 : — 
A. K. P. 
*Beans 38 0 0 
Mangolds 7 0 0 
Wheat 31 2 0 
Oats 96 0 0 
Mangolds (u'ligated) 31 3 0 
Cabbages (irrigated) 800 
liye-grass 51 0 0 
Land under Preparation for Sewage ,. 140 0 0 
Grass-land 271 3 0 
Let in Allotments 13 0 0 
Total G88 0 0 
Bye-grass. — This is the principal crop grown on the land to which sewage 
is api)lied. By preference the crop is sown on fallows in August, but occasion- 
ally it has been sown with the corn crop in the spring of the year. The 
quantity of seed sown per acre is 3 bushels, and we were informed that the 
croj) should not be allowed to stand longer than two years. The rye-grass is 
usually cut six or seven times a year, and is partly consumed on the farm 
and partly sold to customers who fetch it away. In May 1879 the crop then 
being cut was selling at the rate of 8/. per acre ready cut on the ground. 
It receives large quantities of sewage during the period of its growth. 
MaiKjolds.- — The most notable feature of this farm was the marvellous crop 
of mangolds grown in 1878 ; 118 tons of Mammoth Long Red Mangolds (tops 
and roots) having been grown on one acre, and 92 tons per acre without tops. 
It is generally said that mangolds forced to such an amazing size are of small 
value, and will not keep, but in this case we saw the last of them at the end 
of May 1879, and they were then sound and good. The mangolds are largely 
consumed on the farm, but some were sold last year in the field at 17s. per 
ton, or delivered in Reading at 20s. per ton. Forty-eight tons ])er acre of 
Yellow-Globe Mangolds were grown in 1878 on arable land after wheat, 
and were not sewaged. Mangolds are grown on the level. Six pounds of 
.seed per acre are drilled in rows at 27 inches apart, and the plants are hoed 
out to 15 inches' distance in the rows. It cost 15s. per acre to hand-hoe the 
plants, which are also three times horse-hoed. The crop of 1879 was sown 
at the end of April, and was rather an irregular plant from an excess of 
sewage. The sorts of mangold grown on this farm are Long Red, ]3erkshirc 
Prize, Intermediate, and Golden Tankard. The crop is irrigated with sewage 
up to the time of hand-hoeing, and if the weather is dry it is watered up to 
within six weeks or two months of the time of pulling. 
Cabhages. — This crop was gi^own on the irrigated land in 1878, but owing 
to the water-logged condition of the land, arising from the quantity of sewage 
obliged to be got rid of, and, from the severe frost, the eroi^ was destroyed in 
the winter. Cabbages are grown on ridges 3 feet distant, and the plants are 
from 18 inches to 36 inches apart on the ridge, depending upon the variety 
grown. 
The Cereal Crops on this farm are grown on land that is not sewaged, and 
are cultivated under the ordinary course of husbandry. 
Cattle. — There were on the farm at the time of our inspection 
eighty-one cows in-milk, sixteen cows dry in-calf, twelve barren 
cows, twenty-four two-year-old heifers, twenty-three one-year- 
