Manayement of “ (^ar ” Land. 
183 
Class II. — First Prize Farm. 
(Farms under 300 acres.) 
Occupied hy Mr. E. J. Turton, Horkstoiv. 
This farm is situated at Horkstow, a pleasant village four 
miles south-west from Barton station and nine miles north 
from Brigg. It consists of 195 acres arable and 95 acres grass, 
and is owned by the Right Honourable the Earl of Yarborough. 
Soil. — Half the arable land is on the “ Wolds,” on lime- 
stone, and the other half, as well as all the grass land, is in the 
“ Cars ” and very heavy. All the land is in good heart and on 
the level with the exception of one field of grass which is on 
a very steep hill separating the “Wolds” and the “ Cars.” 
Cropping. — The “ Wolds ” land is farmed on the four-course 
system, viz., turnips, barley, seeds, wheat (or oats), and the 
“ Car ” land on a five or six-course, viz., fallows, wheat, seeds, 
oats, beans, wheat, the wheat being undersown with five pecks 
best Italian rye grass. The latter is grazed until the following 
June, and is then broken up for fallows. 
Management of Grass. — Ten acres of the grass land are 
dressed everj" autumn with 7 cwt. basic slag, which has a very 
beneficial effect. Store hogs fed on mangolds, with cake, &c., 
are folded on another portion, the effect on the grass being 
wonderful. The meadow land is dressed with six loads per 
acre of spit dung (dung from the heap) every winter on half 
the field, and the remainder has I cwt. nitrate of sotla and 
2 cwt. superphosphate applied early in April, the fields being 
treated alternatively. Basic superphosphate at the rate of 3 cwt. 
per acre has also been used as an experiment with good effect. 
The grass this year was most luxuriant and above the average 
in quantity. The hay crops were heavy and secured in 
excellent condition. 
Acreage of Crops. — Wheat, 28 aci-es ; barley, 30 acres ; oats, 
19 acres ; beans, 12 acres ; grazing seeds, 40 acres ; mowing 
seeds, 12 acres ; roots, 36 acres ; bare fallows, 12 acres. 
Fallows and Roots. — The last corn crop on strong land 
coming in for fallows (in the “ Cars ”) is sown with five pecks 
rye grass, which provides an early bite in the spring and carries 
a large head of ewes and lambs in a most thriving condition 
till the middle of June. All stubbles on the “Wolds,” when 
coming into fallows, are carefully gone over and any twitch 
forked out, the land consequently being easily kept in, a clean 
condition. 
Roots. — Swedes. — This crop receives 5 cwt. per acre of a 
mixture of bone compound and bone meal in equal parts. As 
an experiment ten acres received 3 cwt. kainit per acre the 
previous autumn with marked effect, and a further ten acres. 
