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which holds about 30 stacks of the size usually made in this 
part ot the country. 1 do not know the size, but it has 12 open 
bays, with very massive stone columns or pillars supporting a 
roof of timber and slate. Mr. Tinniswood carted the materials 
for this, the cost of which was about '6001. It would look very 
cheap in countries where such excellent materials were not at 
hand for its erection. Belbre leaving this subject, 1 may say 
that great care is bestowed upon the implements, for which a 
roomy shed is provided. They are kept painted up and well 
housed when not in use, and are in excellent condition. We 
noticed a machine by Reeves, for sowing corn broadcast, which 
takes 15 feet in width. The leaping-machines used are by 
Wood, by Burgess and Key, and by Hornsby. 
1 must return for a moment to the common land, the reclama- 
tion of which has so altered the character of this farm. I need 
hardly say that the grubbing of the whins or gorse and the 
reduction of the rush-bound surface was a work of some labour, 
and one which would have been useless without liberal succeed- 
ing management. The soil varies a good deal in character. 
Some of it is stony and many-coloured. Other is somewhat 
strong in texture, a queer greyish-brown gravelly clay with a 
very bad subsoil. Mr. Tinniswood says it has cropped well, but 
needs a good deal of stimulant. It grows very few weeds for 
some time after it has been broken up, but after being a short 
time in grass the whins prick up and make their appearance on 
all sides in the herbage. Couch, the great pest of so much of 
England, is very little trouble here, and charlock, which infests 
the superior land of the farm, is unknown. Sometimes a few 
thistles and some spurry make their appearance, but not in 
sufficient quantities to give much trouble. Potatoes are being 
tried on five acres of one of the fields, and should they be 
successful, this might be a paying crop on a good part of this 
land. They get 15 loads of dung, and 4 cwt. of concentrated 
manure at \0s. per cwt. They are planted under ridges, which 
are saddle-harrowed and ridged afresh as often as required. 
Ninety acres of this land were cleared and ploughed in one 
winter in the second year of Mr. Tinniswood's lease. 
Whatever may be the result of this spirited management — 
and we have no reason to doubt its ultimate financial success — 
great credit is due to Mr. Tinniswood for his manipulation of 
this part of the farm. Corn and meat are now produced in 
large quantities on land which before could scarcely yield any- 
thing to the food resources of the country. The whole thing 
resolves itself into a question of cost, and if this land pays its 
way it is certainly deplorable to see a considerable portion of 
the upland districts of this neighbourhood still remaining in 
