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is commonly drillecl in at the rate of from 16 to 2() lbs. per 
acre ; the clover is either mown or fed off by sheep. On some 
of the strong lands round Huntingdon the practice obtains of 
growing mangold on the same land for a succession of years ; 
large quantities of farmyard and other manure being used. By 
adopting this plan the chances of obtaining a good crop are re- 
duced almost to a certainty. 
Market-gardening is extensively practised on the gravels from 
Hemmingford and St. Neot's, to the confines of the county at 
Eaton Socon ; the produce being sent to London, and manure 
brought in return by the Great Northern Railway. This land 
lets in small lots for the cultivation of garden produce, at from 
Zl. to 5/. per acre. At St. Neot's a new corn exchange has recently 
been erected at a cost of 4000Z. 
St. Ives, on the east, is noted for its stock market, which takes 
place every Monday, and, before the outbreak of the cattle-plague, 
was one of the largest in the kingdom ; the charter having been 
obtained from Edward I. about 1290. There are likewise two 
large fairs held on Whit Monday and the 11th October every 
year; the former having been established about the year 1110, 
by a charter granted by Henry I. Both here and at Hun- 
tingdon are extensive steam flour-mills, the property of Mr. 
Potton Brown ; they are fitted up with all the newest kinds of 
labour-saving machinery, and a railway-siding runs up to the 
mill door, where the trucks are unloaded of the raw material 
and reloaded again with the finished article. Some idea may 
be formed of the magnitude of these manufactories when it is 
stated that at the two steam-mills and a small water-mill, belonging 
to the same proprietor, forty-two pairs of stones are kept at work, 
Mr. Brown likewise owns and occupies a large farm near Hun- 
tingdon, which he manages in a spirited and superior manner. 
Round Godmanchester is a considerable extent of very productive 
meadow land, nearly the whole of the hay grown here being 
sold off to supply the livery-stables of Cambridge and the racing- 
establishments of Newmarket. 
About three miles and a half to the east of Huntingdon is 
My ton, a small parish of 1360 acres in extent, the soil prin- 
cipally clay, but of superior quality, and not altogether so- 
tenacious as that elsewhere found, Mr. W. Looker, who lives in 
the old Manor-house, occupies upwards of 1000 acres, 200 of 
which are in permanent pasture. The whole of this occupation has 
been thoroughly drained at a depth of from 3 to 4 feet : of this a 
portion has been done at the joint expense of landlord and tenant, 
the former finding pipes and the latter the requisite labour ; whilst 
the rest has been accomplished by capital borrowed from a Loan 
Company, the tenant paying interest for a certain number of years. 
