Oil tlic FarmiiKj of Huntinf/don. 
]5vizes with tliis class of stock. The number of cattle usually 
kept by him is seventy, with a flock of 200 breeding ewes. No 
store stock of any kind, with the exception of bulls, is ever sold, 
everything being made off for the butcher. ]Mr. Sisman holds under 
a 21 years' lease, commencing at Michaelmas, 18G5. The farm 
has been entirely drained at the expense of the landlord, th(! 
tenant paying 4 per cent, on the outlay. The land here approaches 
nearer to the alluvium ; it is less adhesive ; superior in quality 
to that in other parts; and for the cultivation of the 419 acres 
not in grass a team of IG horses is required. The farm is well 
managed, and good crops are produced. A portion of the root 
crops, with the addition of artificial food and cut chaff, is con- 
sumed on the land by sheep. 
Mr. A. Findlay's farm adjoins the foregoing, to which it is 
similar in quality ; it is well drained, and the whole of the old 
lands are thrown down level, a practice which seems to answer 
here, for the land is in a high state of cultivation, although 
practical men are agreed that on strong lands the levelling pro- 
cess should be effected by slow degrees, even where the land is 
thoroughly drained, otherwise the crops are perceptibly affected. 
From Elton on the north-east, proceeding in a northerly direc- 
tion, we pass through the parishes of Elton, Chesterton, Orton, 
and Fletton. The soil of this district is of a less retentive cha- 
racter than that of other parts, as it is near the escarpment of the 
oolitic rocks, and in some places trenches on the gravels of the 
Nene valley. On the gravels are grown good crops of roots, 
which are mostly eaten on the land by sheep. Here heavy crops 
of malting-barley are produced ; the land being mostly cultivated 
on the four-course system. A good portion of stronger land 
which has been drained is in permanent pasture, and the grass 
lands of this district generally are managed in a very creditable 
manner. The strong arable land is mostly worked on the four- 
course rotation of three crops and a fallow ; but where the land 
is thoroughly drained the six-course is followed. This land is 
capable of growing heavy crops of roots, but they are uncertain, 
and the injury often sustained by the land by their being fed off 
counterbalances the advantages derived from their cultivation. 
Where thorough drainage is effected, first-rate cereal crops, both 
as to quality and yield, are produced. In many places the 
inefficiency of the Government drainage is complained of, the 
allegation being that on the retentive soils the drains are put in 
too deep to take off the surface or rain water : but the error more 
probably consists in the drains being too wide apart. 
From Yaxley on the north, and extending round the inland 
boundary of the fens as far as St. Ives on the east, is a belt of 
upland, of superior quality. This we imagine is due to the fact 
