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one consisting of 310 acres at Kirkby Green and the other 
of 481 acres at Scopwick, making a total of 791 acres, 
of which 621 are ai’able. Kirkby Green is a small village 
three-quax’ters.of a mile west from Scopwick Station, and is 
united with a village of the latter name as an ecclesiastical 
parish. 
The soil is of moderate quality only, consisting of sandy 
loam and “thin” land with limestone underneath. The Scop- 
wick holding in particular being all poor thin heath land with 
not more than six inches of soil, which, however, will grow 
good roots and tine quality barley. 
The ordinary four-course system of cropping is adopted, 
viz., turnips, barley, clover, wheat. 
The grass land, in addition to dressings of farm-yard manure, 
has all been treated with artificials during this tenancy with 
beneficial effect. The artificial mixture used was .0 cwt. basic 
slag plus 3 cwt. kainit per acre ; but Mr. Todd now uses 4 cwt. 
per acre basic supei-phosphate only. The grass also benefits 
greatly in the spring through being run over by ewes and 
lambs consuming mangolds and cake. The hay crops this year 
were very good. 
Cropping in 1907 was as follows : barley, 147 acres ; wheat,, 
86 acres ; turnips, 108 acres ; mangolds, 30 acres ; seeds, 183 
acres ; oats, 5S acres ; cabbage, lucerne, &c., 9 acres. 
All the farm-yard manure made in the yards is applied to 
the “ seeds,” and this works out at about eight loads per acre, 
following which a white crop is taken. After the white crop 
the land is cleaned and sown with roots, most of which are fed 
on, thus dressing the ground for the succeeding crop of barley. 
The sheep which are folded on receive from ^ lb. to 1 lb. of 
cake per head per day. The barley land before being “ drilled ” 
is dressed with salt at the rate of 3 cwt. per acre, with the 
occasional addition of 2 cwt. superphosphate per acre. Wheat 
receives a similar dressing with the addition of 1 cwt. nitrate 
of soda per acre applied in the spring. Land coming in for 
roots receives 3 cwt. of kainit per acre as early as possible in 
the spring, and at sowing-time a dressing of 4 cwt. basic super- 
phosphate per acre. 
The working horses, twenty-two in number, were a very 
useful lot indeed, twelve of them being entered in the Shire 
Stud Book. There were also five yearlings and five foals all of 
good stamp and likely to turn out well. The horses run out to 
grass at night all the summer and have about one stone of corn 
per head per day all the year round, with straw chaff and oil 
cake, the latter being given in the form of gruel. 
Cattle. — Between sixty and seventy head of Lincoln Red 
Short-horns are summered each year for breeding. At the 
