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The Cumberland and Westmoreland 
did not show the judgment which characterised the rest of his 
farming. Certainly his oat-crops had suffered very much this 
season by the treading of the land in the consumption of the 
roots ; and I find by my notes that the sowing of this crop 
was only finished on May 1st, after which a period of drought 
followed, and in consequence there was every prospect of a 
deficient crop. A small quantity of long red mangolds are 
taken, and, like all the rest in this county, they were affected 
with the grub in the leaf before alluded to. Potatoes were very 
good. This root-land was all exceedingly clean, and the roots 
which we saw in the winter were excellent in quality. Many of 
the purple-topped swedes had, however, perished with frost, but 
the green-tops of which the crop principally consisted were still 
very sound. 
The roots, then, having been principally consumed upon the 
land, a small quantity of wheat (say 3 acres) follows on one 
portion ; of barley (say 5 acres) upon another, and the remainder 
of the shift is sown with oats. Wheat is only grown for house- 
hold consumption and for the sake of the straw for thatching, 
»Scc. The whole of the break is seeded down with 11 or 12 lbs. 
of clovers and 2 pecks of ryegrass, and oats complete the rota- 
tion. There are thus generally about 52 acres of land in corn, 
26 in roots, and 52 in grass-seeds. 
Live Stock. — Considering that there is no land in permanent 
grass, with the exception of the 10 acres of meadow always 
mown (which borders a little brook which runs through the 
farm), a large head of stock is maintained. In February there 
were 7 horses, 41 cattle, 165 sheep, and 10 pigs. 
Cattle. — The cattle at this time were thus divided : — 
12 Cows in-calf and in-milk. 
4 Two-year-old heifers. 
8 Yearlings (steers and heifers). 
16 Calves. 
1 Bull. 
41 
The whole of these are rare good Shorthorn stock. A first- 
rate pedigree bull has always been used, and the one in service 
at present is a capital white beast, " Earl of Bland," entered in 
the Herdbook, and well worthy of note in this place. His 
stock also comes very good. The steers are kept till they are 
two years old, and they and the yearlings are summered in 
Greystoke Park, where cattle are taken in. About 305. to 
32s. Qd. is paid for the agistment of yearlings, and 42s. for 
two-year-olds. 
